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The Invention of Hebrew (Paperback): Seth L Sanders

The Invention of Hebrew (Paperback)

Seth L Sanders

Series: Traditions

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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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Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Traditions
Release date: June 2011
First published: June 2011
Authors: Seth L Sanders
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07835-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
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LSN: 0-252-07835-7
Barcode: 9780252078354

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