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Dead Sea media : orality, textuality, and memory in the scrolls from the Judean desert

By Miller , Shem

Book information

Publisher
Brill. copyright 2019.
Year
2019
ISBN
9789004407718, 9004407715
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3133104 bytes)
Series
Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah (Leiden) 129.
Pages
321\342
Time added
2019-12-18 00:20:34
586 B C -210 A D;Jews -- History -- 586 B C -70 ADead Sea scrolls;Bible -- Old Testament -- Criticietc;Tradition (Judaism);Collective memory -- Israeinterpretation

Description

"In Dead Sea Media Shem Miller offers a groundbreaking media criticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Although past studies have underappreciated the crucial roles of orality and memory in the social setting of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Miller convincingly demonstrates that oral performance, oral tradition, and oral transmission were vital components of everyday life in the communities associated with the Scrolls. In addition to being literary documents, the Dead Sea Scrolls were also records of both scribal and cultural memories, as well as oral traditions and oral performance. An examination of the Scrolls' textuality reveals the oral and mnemonic background of several scribal practices and literary characteristics reflected in the Scrolls"  Read more...

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