The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in
light of recent epigraphic discoveries on the extreme antiquity of
the alphabet and its use as a deliberate and meaningful choice.
Hebrew was more than just a way of transmitting information; it was
a vehicle of political symbolism and self-representation. Seth L.
Sanders connects the Bible's distinctive linguistic form--writing
down a local spoken language--to a cultural desire to speak
directly to people, summoning them to join a new community that the
text itself helped call into being. Addressing the people of Israel
through a vernacular literature, Hebrew texts reimagined their
audience as a public. By comparing Biblical documents with related
ancient texts in Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Babylonian, this book shows
Hebrew's distinctiveness as a self-conscious political language.
Illuminating the enduring stakes of Biblical writing, Sanders
demonstrates how Hebrew assumed and promoted a source of power
previously unknown in written literature: "the people" as the
protagonist of religion and politics.
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