Scribes Writing Scripture
Doublets, Textual Divination, and the Formation of the Book of Jeremiah
Published on 2. December 2021
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-90-04-47247-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-47247-1 (9789004472471)
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Justus Theodore Ghormley, Ph.D. (2016), University of Notre Dame, is the Assistant Director of the Moreau College Initiative, Holy Cross College at Notre Dame. His publications on the history of biblical interpretation include "Scribal Revision: A Post-Qumran Perspective on the Formation of Jeremiah" (Textus, 2018).