The books constituting the Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible, have a
complex history of authorship, resulting in a variety of styles,
perspectives, and meanings. The authors and editors of the books
that became the Bible lived through the political vicissitudes of a
region that was a cultural crossroads, subject to successive waves
of invasion, settlement, and influence by a variety of
civilizations. Consequently, their works reflect the diverse
political, intellectual, and literary legacies of the ancient Near
East and, in some cases, the incorporation of non-Hebrew texts.
S. A. Nigosian, a scholar of Biblical and Near Eastern
religions, explores the diverse literary antecedents of the Old
Testament as well as the Apocrypha -- books excluded from the
canonical Hebrew text but included in the Septuagint. Closely
analyzing the formation and contents of these works, Nigosian
compares them with the religious, philosophical, didactic, and
historical works created by the neighboring Near Eastern
civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Asia
Minor. Proceeding book by book, he highlights parallels in
language, structure, and story among Hebrew and non-Hebrew and
non-canonical Hebrew texts.
From the ubiquity of flood myths throughout the ancient Near
East to similarities between seduction tales in Genesis and
Egyptian mythology, Job-like stories from Babylonian legend, and
the recycling of elements within the Hebrew Bible, this book offers
a concise and accessible history of the composition and compilation
of the Bible and the complex process of canonization. It also
features a glossary, an extensive bibliography, and a chronology of
the composition of the Hebrew Bible andthe Apocrypha.
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