基本説明
This is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent findings on the use of the Hebrew alphabet as a deliberate and meaningful choice.
Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowlegments xv
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
1. Modernity's Ghosts: The Bible as Political Communication 13
2. What Was the Alphabet For? 36
3. Empires and Alphabets in Late Bronze Age Canaan 76
4. The Invention of Hebrew in Iron Age Israel 103
Conclusion 157
Notes 173
Bibliography 225
Index 251
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