A Text That Was but Isn’t: On the Contribution of Literary Evidence in the Assessment of Shapira Deuteronomy
This article addresses the value of literary evidence in the assessment of putatively ancient texts, with special focus on Shapira Deuteronomy in the wake of its recent reconsideration. The article argues that, notwithstanding the challenges that attend them, all types of evidence—epigraphic, lingui...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Western Academic Press
2023
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Maarav
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 74-90 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Deuteronomium
/ Text
/ Forgery
/ Shapira, Moses Wilhelm 1830-1884
/ Literary criticism
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KBL Near East and North Africa |
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| Summary: | This article addresses the value of literary evidence in the assessment of putatively ancient texts, with special focus on Shapira Deuteronomy in the wake of its recent reconsideration. The article argues that, notwithstanding the challenges that attend them, all types of evidence—epigraphic, linguistic, literary—should be assessed, and that each can offer important evaluative insights, individually and in relation to each other. The article concludes with a few specific literary observations on Shapira Deuteronomy. These observations add to the case against this text’s status as an ancient work and, as such, demonstrate that literary analysis of the Shapira strips produces significant information regarding their putative antiquity, even apart from any epigraphic or linguistic assessment. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Maarav
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/726572 |