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The Invention of Hebrew Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Seth L. Sanders
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- Title The Invention of Hebrew
- Author Seth L. Sanders
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Usa
- Date 2009-11
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780252032844 / 0252032845
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ugaritic literature - Relation to the Old, Inscriptions, Hebrew - Palestine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009029988
- Dewey Decimal Code 492.409
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- Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/22/2010, Page 18
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Hardcover, 24 cm, 258 pp. 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…
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