Oral tradition in ancient Israel / Robert D. Miller II.

Author
Miller, Robert D., II [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Eugene, OR : Cascade Books, 2011.
Description
xv, 154 p. ; 23 cm.

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    Providing a comprehensive study of "oral tradition" in Israel, this volume unpacks the nature of oral tradition, the form it would have taken in ancient Israel, and the remains of it in the narrative books of the Hebrew Bible. The author presents cases of oral/written interaction that provide the best ethnographic analogies for ancient Israel and insights from these suggest a model of transmission in oral-written societies valid for ancient Israel. Miller reconstructs what ancient Israelite oral literature would have been and considers criteria for identifying orally derived material in the narrative books of the Old Testament, marking several passages as highly probable oral derivations. Using ethnographic data and ancient Near Eastern examples, he proposes performance settings for this material. The epilogue treats the contentious topic of historicity and shows that orally derived texts are not more historically reliable than other texts in the Bible.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-179) and index
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    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Oral formulaicism in Old Testament study
    • The bathos of the oral formulaic school
    • Models for biblical literature
    • Literacy and orality in preexilic Israel
    • What lies behind the written
    • Towards identifying the oral in the Old Testament
    • Epilogue : orality and criticism
    ISBN
    • 9781610972710
    • 1610972716
    OCLC
    754222825
    RCP
    H - S
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