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Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition

By Mark Lester

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2024
ISBN
9004691804, 9789004691803
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25316263 bytes)
Series
Vetus Testamentum, Supplements; 198
Pages
328\329
Time added
2024-06-28 08:53:31

Description

Deuteronomy and the inscribed texts depicted within it are often called "books." Moreover, its treatment of writing has earned it a prominent place in historical accounts of the religion of ancient Israel and Judah. Neither Deuteronomy nor its text-artifacts, however, are books in any conventional sense of the term. This interdisciplinary study reorients the analysis of Deuteronomic textuality around the materiality, visuality, and rhetoric of ancient rather than modern media. It argues that the Deuteronomic composition adapts the media aesthetics of ancient treaty tablets and monumental inscriptions to a story that is itself transformed into an artifact of the past.

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