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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822242503321

Autore

Ghormley Justus T.

Titolo

Scribes writing scripture : doublets, textual divination, and the formation of the Book of Jeremiah / / Justus T. Ghormley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

90-04-47256-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 pages)

Collana

Vetus Testamentum, Supplements

Disciplina

232.95

Soggetti

Scribes, Jewish

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"The biblical book of Jeremiah was frequently expanded and revised through duplication by anonymous scribes in ancient Judea. Who were these scribes? What gave them the authority to revise divinatory texts like Jeremiah? And when creating duplicates, what did they think they were doing? In Scribes Writing Scripture: Doublets, Textual Divination, and the Formation of Jeremiah, Justus Theodore Ghormley explores possible answers to these questions. The scribes who revised Jeremiah are textual diviners akin to divining scribal scholars of ancient Near Eastern royal courts; and their practice of expanding Jeremiah through duplication involves techniques of textual divination comparable the practice of textual divination utilized in the formation of ancient Near Eastern divinatory texts"--