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Article: Scribes and Schools: The canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Scribes and Schools: The canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures. By PHILIP R. DAVIES. Library of Ancient Israel. Louisville, Ky.: WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX PRESS, 1998. Pp. xi + 219. $24.
Davies is an iconoclastic scholar of the Bible, best known for his 1992 book, In Search of "Ancient Israel." His desire to shake up readers begins with this book's title, since it is initially unclear what "Scribes and Schools" have to do with "The Canonization of the Hebrew Scripture." Here Davies is convincing, emphasizing that canonization should not be viewed primarily as a literary process, but is closely connected to powerful literate elites ("scribes") and their institutions ...