The Deuteronomic School: History, Social Setting, And Literature (studies In Biblical Literature 2)

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After a brief review of the current state of research on the Deuteronomistic History (DtrH), Person proposes four perspectives to move the argument forward and to gain new insights: the use of text-critical controls for redactional arguments; the contribution of the study of oral tradition to understand the composition and transmission of biblical texts in ancient Israel; arguments for the postexilic setting of the Deuteronomic school; and the use of comparative material (Udjahorresnet and Qumran) to understand scribal guilds, such as the Deuteronomic school, in ancient Israel. The results of these new perspectives challenge the most widely accepted understandings of the redaction history of DtrH and suggest that the Deuteronomic school was a scribal guild whose redactional activity spanned a long period of time from possibly as early as the pre-exilic period to the Persian period shortly before Ezra. Person's reconstruction of the social setting of the Deuteronomic school includes their return from Babylon to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in order to support the rebuilding of the temple with their scribal skills. This reconstruction leads to new interpretations of Deuteronomic literature (DtrH and Jeremiah).

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• Pages: 188

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• Language: English

• Issue: до 2011-08

• Identifier: 1589830245,9781589830240

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• Toc: THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL: History, Social Setting, and Literature......Page 3TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 5ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 9INTRODUCTION......Page 11REDACTION HISTORY OF THE DEUTERONOMIC HISTORY......Page 12WHAT DOES "DEUTERONOMIC"/ "DEUTERONOMISTIC" MEAN?......Page 14WHAT DOES "SCHOOL" MEAN?......Page 17THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG THE BOOKS OF THE DEUTERONOMIC HISTORY......Page 18THE SO-CALLED PROBLEM OF "PAN-DEUTERONOMISM"......Page 23WHAT IS DEUTERONOMIC LANGUAGE?......Page 27THE NEED FOR TEXT CRITICAL CONTROLS......Page 31THE REDACTION HISTORY OF THE DEUTERONOMIC HISTORY......Page 34CRITIQUE OF PAST ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL......Page 41TEXT CRITICAL EVIDENCE OF POSTEXILIC, DEUTERONOMIC REDACTION......Page 44THE THEME OF RESTORATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON DATING......Page 60SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT FOR THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL......Page 663. SCRIBAL SCHOOLS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST......Page 75SCRIBAL SCHOOLS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE......Page 76THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL AS A SCRIBAL SCHOOL......Page 894. THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL IN ITS ORAL WORLD......Page 93ORAL TRADITION AND THE COMPOSITION OF BIBLICAL TEXTS......Page 95ORAL TRADITION AND THE TRANSMISSION OF BIBLICAL TEXTS......Page 98ORAL TRADITION AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF "WORD"......Page 99TEXT CRITICAL VARIANTS OF "WORDS"......Page 101CONCLUSION: THE ANCIENT ISRAELITE SCRIBE AS PERFORMER......Page 105THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL IN ITS ORAL WORLD......Page 1085. DEUTERONOMIC LITERATURE DURING THE TIME OF ZERUBBABEL......Page 113PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING DEUTERONOMIC THEOLOGY......Page 114DEUTERONOMY 30:1-14......Page 116JOSHUA 1:1-11......Page 118JUDGES 17:6; 21:25......Page 1192 SAMUEL 7:1-17......Page 1202 SAMUEL 23:1-7......Page 1211 KINGS 8......Page 1232 KINGS 17...