Study How Old Is The Hebrew Bible?: A Linguistic, Textual, And Historical Study Depicted By Ronald Hendel Accessible As EPub

read a number of recent books on the history of Judaism and its literature from ancient origins to the Second Temple era.
This book was one in a series, It was splendidthough I have to admit to struggling with some of the discussion around ancient Hebrew grammar, I've been trying to understand where the idea of "one" God came from, at least as this problem is understood in academia.
It is all fascinating. Basically, this book does a deep dive in the vocabulary and grammar of the Hebrew texts to illustrate how, sometimes, it can be dated on the basis of linguistic clues.
It's all probabilistic and it's all fascinating, If you know a bit of Hebrew and you're interested in the Hebrew Scriptures, I'd strongly recommend this,
I'd add that all my reading of the most recent works in this area suggest that the evolution from a belief in many gods to one god was slow, and that most of the "one god" thinking didn't really gel until during the Babylonian exile.
That's not to say that there were not champions of the one Israelite God among all others and perhaps even some radical monotheistic thinking before that.
But the narrative we find in today's "Old" Testament mostly imposes later theological developments on an earlier time,
For me, this raises the question of what to make of contemporary monotheistic thinking in the JudeaChristian tradition, I see it more and more as an accident of history rather than a revealed truth, Warning: You need to have a pretty good grasp on Biblical Hebrew to make sense of the book, From two expert scholars comes a comprehensive study of the dating of the Hebrew Bible

The age of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that has sparked controversy and debate in recent years.
The scarcity of clear evidence allows for the possibility of many views, though these are often clouded by theological and political biases.
This impressive, broadranging book synthesizes recent linguistic, textual, and historical research to clarify the history of biblical literature, from its oldest texts and literary layers to its youngest.
In clear, concise language, the authors provide a comprehensive overview that cuts across scholarly specialties to create a new standard for the historical study of the Bible.
This muchneeded work paves the path forward to dating the Hebrew Bible and understanding crucial aspects of its historical and contemporary significance.
This book is shockingly cogent in its analysis, informative and useful in defense of ancient origins for many biblical texts, and overall highly persuasive.
I rarely provide five for a book, This book surprised me. I wasnt expecting to enjoy it as much as I did, So I cannot help but give it an excellent rating due to its persuasiveness and its usefulness within the field of textual critical studies.
Old Testament textual critics should take note of this book, for its contribution is unique, This is a loveletter to the Hebrew language,

The book is an indepth study concerning the various ways the Hebrew language developed and how one might find consilience with temporal or historical events.
A highly technical volume, there are a lot of great insights here, more than I, a nonspecialist in the Hebrew language could understand.
As a philologist there was still much for me to appreciate, In particular, thinking about styleshifting how authors might revert to an archaic or older style for a particular song or character or situation and pseudoclassicisms, which I found particularly interesting with reference to examples at Qumran.
A lot of LBH Late Biblical Hebrew and Qumran literature use pseudoclassicisms and their use is not simply for style but may also reflect a view about what kind of Hebrew was appropriate for interpreting or expounding on a text.
As the authors note, "Among the sectarians, classical Hebrew was defined expressly as God's own language, Their ideology of Hebrew explains their active effort to produce new texts in the language of scripture" Page, Further exploration is warranted, but this will have some interesting implications for thinking about what these ancient authors of the Scrolls thought they were doing.
It is often assumed the canon of the Hebrew Bible though settled probably nearer to the end of the first century had an intrinsic "unity" in comparison to "apocryphal" or "pseudepigraphal" or "sectarian" texts.
But, the imitation of CBH classical biblical Hebrew in texts like Pesher Habakkuk show that by imitating the style of older Hebrew texts, texts that have longstanding divine authority in their communities, these commentators and authors in their own right of the Scrolls were in some way trying to produce scripture of their own.
This is textual traditioning to a whole different level,

Having sat in lectures and seminars with Prof, Jan Joosten, his voice and his arguments come through in this volume, Speaking about Hebrew philology is not always an easy task but Hendel and Joosten have written a volume on Hebrew "chronolects" with flare and a real sense of humility.
Genuine curiosity leaps off the page, The authors have an axe to grind, but they do so in a way that reflect their seasoned experience in the academy.
In short, this is a humble but formidable account of the age of the Hebrew Bible, Ronald Hendel is the Norma and Sam Dabby Professor

of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and general editor of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition.
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