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Dead Sea media : orality, textuality, and memory in the scrolls from the Judean desert
- Title
- Dead Sea media : orality, textuality, and memory in the scrolls from the Judean desert / by Shem Miller.
- Author
- Miller, Shem, 1974-
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xix, 321 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In Dead Sea Media Shem Miller offers a groundbreaking media criticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Although past studies have underappreciated the crucial roles of orality and memory in the social setting of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Miller convincingly demonstrates that oral performance, oral tradition, and oral transmission were vital components of everyday life in the communities associated with the Scrolls. In addition to being literary documents, the Dead Sea Scrolls were also records of both scribal and cultural memories, as well as oral traditions and oral performance. An examination of the Scrolls' textuality reveals the oral and mnemonic background of several scribal practices and literary characteristics reflected in the Scrolls"--
- Series Statement
- Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; volume 129
- Uniform Title
- Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 129.
- Subject
- Dead Sea scrolls
- Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Bible
- 586 B.C.-210 A.D
- Tradition (Judaism)
- Oral tradition > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Scribes, Jewish
- Collective memory > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
- Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D
- Collective memory
- Jews
- Judaism > Post-exilic period (Judaism)
- Israel
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-304) and indexes.
- Contents
- Oral performance -- Oral tradition and oral authority -- Oral-written textuality -- Oral-written register -- Cultural memory -- Scribal memory.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-1217
- ISBN
- 9789004407718
- 9004407715
- 9789004408203 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019023147
- 40029573222
- OCLC
- 1101282443
- Author
- Miller, Shem, 1974- author.
- Title
- Dead Sea media : orality, textuality, and memory in the scrolls from the Judean desert / by Shem Miller.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; volume 129Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 129.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-304) and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Miller, Shem, 1974- Dead Sea media. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004408203 (DLC) 2019023148 (OCoLC)1112129650
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029573222
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-1217