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Product Description: This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding of oral traditions...read more
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9781138101043 | Routledge, December 1, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding of oral traditions.
Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History: Portrait, Reality and the Formation of a History
Product Description: This collection of essays examines the relationship of prophecy to the Deuteronomistic History (Deuteronomy 2 Kings), including the historical reality of prophecy that stands behind the text and the portrayal of prophecy within the literature itself...read more
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9781589838857 | Society of Biblical Literature, December 13, 2013, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays examines the relationship of prophecy to the Deuteronomistic History (Deuteronomy 2 Kings), including the historical reality of prophecy that stands behind the text and the portrayal of prophecy within the literature itself.
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9781589837492, titled "Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History: Portrait, Reality, and the Formation of a History" | Society of Biblical Literature, December 13, 2013, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays examines the relationship of prophecy to the Deuteronomistic History (Deuteronomy 2 Kings), including the historical reality of prophecy that stands behind the text and the portrayal of prophecy within the literature itself.
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9783161510083, titled "Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch, Hexateuch and the Deuteronomistic History" | Mohr Siebrek Ek, December 9, 2012, cover price $60.00
Product Description: This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian-period dating of the Deuteronomic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of biblical texts, and the reassessment of the relationship of Standard Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew...read more
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9789004187061 | Brill Academic Pub, November 1, 2010, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian-period dating of the Deuteronomic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of biblical texts, and the reassessment of the relationship of Standard Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew.
Product Description: This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian-period dating of the Deuteronomic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of biblical texts, and the reassessment of the relationship of Standard Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew...read more
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9781589835177 | Society of Biblical Literature, August 2, 2010, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian-period dating of the Deuteronomic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of biblical texts, and the reassessment of the relationship of Standard Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew.
Product Description: The author analyses the various conversations that occur between the characters in the Jonah narrative and the 'conversation' that occurs between the text and its readers. The study opens with an introduction to the field of conversation analysis, with a focus on one feature of conversation analysis-that a fundamental structure in the organization of language is adjacency pairs (for example, question/answer and invitation/refusal)...read more
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9780567425935 | T&t Clark Ltd, May 15, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The author analyses the various conversations that occur between the characters in the Jonah narrative and the 'conversation' that occurs between the text and its readers.
Product Description: After a brief review of the current state of research on the Deuteronomistic History (DtrH), Person proposes four perspectives to move the argument forward and to gain new insights: the use of text-critical controls for redactional arguments; the contribution of the study of oral tradition to understand the composition and transmission of biblical texts in ancient Israel; arguments for the postexilic setting of the Deuteronomic school; and the use of comparative material (Udjahorresnet and Qumran) to understand scribal guilds, such as the Deuteronomic school, in ancient Israel...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789004126893 | Brill Academic Pub, June 1, 2002, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: After a brief review of the current state of research on the Deuteronomistic History (DtrH), Person proposes four perspectives to move the argument forward and to gain new insights: the use of text-critical controls for redactional arguments; the contribution of the study of oral tradition to understand the composition and transmission of biblical texts in ancient Israel; arguments for the postexilic setting of the Deuteronomic school; and the use of comparative material (Udjahorresnet and Qumran) to understand scribal guilds, such as the Deuteronomic school, in ancient Israel.
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9781589830240 | Scholars Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: After a brief review of the current state of research on the Deuteronomistic History (DtrH), Person proposes four perspectives to move the argument forward and to gain new insights: the use of text-critical controls for redactional arguments; the contribution of the study of oral tradition to understand the composition and transmission of biblical texts in ancient Israel; arguments for the postexilic setting of the Deuteronomic school; and the use of comparative material (Udjahorresnet and Qumran) to understand scribal guilds, such as the Deuteronomic school, in ancient Israel.
Product Description: Structure and Meaning in Conversation and Literature brings together conversation analysis and reader-response theories in order to understand more fully how readers produce meaning when they interact with texts. Person demonstrates how literary discourse contains adaptations of structures in everyday conversation, thus guiding readers in producing meaning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780761814726 | Univ Pr of Amer, November 1, 1999, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Structure and Meaning in Conversation and Literature brings together conversation analysis and reader-response theories in order to understand more fully how readers produce meaning when they interact with texts.
Product Description: Book by Person, Raymond F., Jr. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9783110154573 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, May 1, 1997, cover price $154.00 | About this edition: Book by Person, Raymond F.
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