{"product_id":"before-the-bible-the-liturgical-body-and-the-formation-of-scriptures-in-early-judaism-9780190212216","title":"Before the Bible: The Liturgical Body and the Formation of Scriptures in Early Judaism","description":"\u003cem\u003eBefore the Bible \u003c\/em\u003ereveals the landscape of scripture in an era prior to the crystallization of the rabbinic Bible and the canonization of the Christian Bible. Most accounts of the formation of the Hebrew Bible trace the origins of scripture through source critical excavation of the\u003cbr\u003earchaeological tel of the Bible or the analysis of the scribal hand on manuscripts in text-critical work, but the discoveries in the Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of scripture formation. Judith Newman focuses not on the putative origins and closure of the Bible, but on the\u003cbr\u003ereasons why scriptures remained open, with pluriform growth in the Hellenistic-Roman period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on new methods from cognitive neuroscience and the social sciences as well as traditional philological and literary analysis, \u003cem\u003eBefore the Bible\u003c\/em\u003e argues that the key to understanding the formation of scripture is the widespread practice of individual and communal prayer in early Judaism. The\u003cbr\u003efigure of the teacher as a learned and pious sage capable of interpreting and embodying the tradition is central to understanding this revelatory phenomenon. The book considers the entwinement of prayer and scriptural formation in five books reflecting the diversity of early Judaism: Ben Sira, \u003cbr\u003eDaniel, Jeremiah\/Baruch, Second Corinthians, and the Qumran Hodayot (Thanksgiving Hymns). While not a complete taxonomy of scripture formation, the book illuminates performative dynamics that have been largely ignored as well as the generative role of interpretive tradition in accounts of how the\u003cbr\u003eBible came to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith H. Newman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190212216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudith H. Newman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism in the Department for the Study of Religion and Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto. Trained at Yale Divinity School (MAR) and Harvard (PhD), her current research interests are in the ritual performance of texts\u003cbr\u003eparticularly as this intersects with the formation of communities in early Judaism and Christianity. Emerging projects include a commentary on the book of Judith and its reception through the ages; and a study that reconceives early Jewish temporalities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39927187144819,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7c6648ea-29c8-4335-bc45-c57f6ecc8dc6.jpg?v=1647523746","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/before-the-bible-the-liturgical-body-and-the-formation-of-scriptures-in-early-judaism-9780190212216","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}