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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Year: 2,002
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Pages: 188
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Language: English
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Toc: THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL: History, Social Setting, and Literature......Page 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 9 INTRODUCTION......Page 11 REDACTION HISTORY OF THE DEUTERONOMIC HISTORY......Page 12 WHAT DOES "DEUTERONOMIC"/ "DEUTERONOMISTIC" MEAN?......Page 14 WHAT DOES "SCHOOL" MEAN?......Page 17 THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG THE BOOKS OF THE DEUTERONOMIC HISTORY......Page 18 THE SO-CALLED PROBLEM OF "PAN-DEUTERONOMISM"......Page 23 WHAT IS DEUTERONOMIC LANGUAGE?......Page 27 THE NEED FOR TEXT CRITICAL CONTROLS......Page 31 THE REDACTION HISTORY OF THE DEUTERONOMIC HISTORY......Page 34 CRITIQUE OF PAST ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL......Page 41 TEXT CRITICAL EVIDENCE OF POSTEXILIC, DEUTERONOMIC REDACTION......Page 44 THE THEME OF RESTORATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON DATING......Page 60 SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT FOR THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL......Page 66 3. SCRIBAL SCHOOLS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST......Page 75 SCRIBAL SCHOOLS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE......Page 76 THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL AS A SCRIBAL SCHOOL......Page 89 4. THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL IN ITS ORAL WORLD......Page 93 ORAL TRADITION AND THE COMPOSITION OF BIBLICAL TEXTS......Page 95 ORAL TRADITION AND THE TRANSMISSION OF BIBLICAL TEXTS......Page 98 ORAL TRADITION AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF "WORD"......Page 99 TEXT CRITICAL VARIANTS OF "WORDS"......Page 101 CONCLUSION: THE ANCIENT ISRAELITE SCRIBE AS PERFORMER......Page 105 THE DEUTERONOMIC SCHOOL IN ITS ORAL WORLD......Page 108 5. DEUTERONOMIC LITERATURE DURING THE TIME OF ZERUBBABEL......Page 113 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING DEUTERONOMIC THEOLOGY......Page 114 DEUTERONOMY 30:1-14......Page 116 JOSHUA 1:1-11......Page 118 JUDGES 17:6; 21:25......Page 119 2 SAMUEL 7:1-17......Page 120 2 SAMUEL 23:1-7......Page 121 1 KINGS 8......Page 123 2 KINGS 17...