Inscribe It in a Book: Scribal Practice, Cultural Memory, and the Making of the Hebrew Scriptures

Cover
Title
Preface
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Johannes Unsok Ro and Benjamin D. Giffone — Introduction
Part I: Comparative Studies
	Daniel Bodi — A New Proposal for the Origin of the Term for ‘Letter’: Sumerian inim.gar, i₅-gar-ra; Akkadian egirtu; Aramaic ʾiggĕrâ, ʾiggartâ, Hebrew ʾiggeret
	William R. Stewart — The Death of the Prophet? A Comparative Study of Prophetic Signs in the Royal Archives of Mari, Syria (ARM 26/1.206) and the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah 19:1–13)
	JiSeong James Kwon — Scribal Intertexts in the Book of Job: Foreign Counterparts of Job
	Sungwoo Park and Johannes Unsok Ro — Collective Identity through Scribalism: Interpreting Plato’s Menexenus and the Book of Chronicles
Part II: Writing about Writing in the Hebrew Bible
	Benjamin Kilchör — “Then Moses Wrote This Torah” (Deut 31:9): The Relationship of Oral and Written Torah in Deuteronomy
	Lisbeth S. Fried and Edward J. Mills III — Ezra the Scribe
	Johanna Erzberger — Israel’s Salvation and the Survival of Baruch the Scribe
	Peter Altmann — Tracing Divine Law: Written Divine Law in Chronicles
Part III: Case Studies
	Jin H. Han — Did the Deuteronomist Detest Dreams?
	Benjamin D. Giffone — Regathering Too Many Stones? Scribal Constraints, Community Memory, and the ‘Problem’ of Elijah’s Sacrifice for Deuteronomism in Kings
	Woo Min Lee — The “Remnant” in the Deuteronomistic Cultural Memory: A Case Study on 2 Kings 19:30–31
	Roger S. Nam — Nehemiah 5:1–13 as Innerbiblical Interpretation of Pentateuchal Slavery Laws
	Kristin Weingart — Chronography in the Book of Kings: An Inquiry into an Israelite Manifestation of an Ancient Near Eastern Genre
	Benjamin Ziemer — Radical Versus Conservative? How Scribes Conventionally Used Books While Writing Books
List of Contributors
Index of Biblial and Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects