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Transforming Literature into Scripture - Texts as Cult Objects at Ninevah and Qumran (Paperback)
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Transforming Literature into Scripture - Texts as Cult Objects at Ninevah and Qumran (Paperback)
Series: BibleWorld
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Transforming Literature into Scripture examines how the early
textual traditions of ancient Israel - stories, laws, and rituals -
were transformed into sacred writings. By comparing evidence from
two key collections from antiquity - the royal library at Nineveh
and the biblical manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls - the book
traces the stabilisation of textual traditions in the ancient Near
East towards fixed literary prototypes. The study presents a new
methodology which enables the quantification, categorisation and
statistical analysis of texts from different languages, writing
systems, and media. The methodology is tested on wide range of text
genres from the cuneiform and biblical traditions in order to
determine which texts tend towards stabilised forms. Transforming
Literature into Scripture reveals how authoritative literary
collections metamorphosed into fixed ritualised texts and will be
of interest to scholars across Biblical, Judaic and Literary
Studies.
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