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Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M.
For centuries, scholars have been dismantling those attributions, often shredding biblical books into ribbons to tease out their different authors in heroic feats of textual analysis which it is quite impossible to prove either right or wrong. Until the later eighth century BC, Schniedewind argues, writing was very unusual in the Hebraic world, mostly used by kings and their armies, who kept records, burnished royal narratives and maintained lists of soldiers and tributaries. Assyria’s bureaucratic literary culture was felt beyond its borders, but the critical impact, in this telling, was the flood of refugees from the northern kingdom fleeing south to Jerusalem.
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