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In this startling reinterpretation of biblical history, a leading scholar shows how the Bible became the sacred text it is today In this sweeping narrative, Michael Satlow tells the fascinating story of how an ancient collection of obscure Israelite writings became the founding texts of both Judaism and Christianity, considered holy by followers of each faith. Drawing on cutting-edge historical and archeological research, he traces the story of how, when, and why Jews and Christians gradually granted authority to texts that had long lay dormant in a dusty temple archive. The Bible, Satlow maintains, was not the consecrated book it is now until quite late in its history. He describes how elite scribes in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E. began the process that led to the creation of several of our biblical texts. It was not until these were translated into Greek in Egypt in the second century B.C.E., however, that some Jews began to see them as culturally authoritative, comparable to Homerâs works in contemporary Greek society. Then, in the first century B.C.E. in Israel, political machinations resulted in the Sadducees assigning legal power to the writings. We see how the world Jesus was born into was largely biblically illiterate and how he knew very little about the texts upon which his apostles would base his spiritual leadership. Synthesizing an enormous body of scholarly work, Satlowâs groundbreaking study offers provocative new assertions about commonly accepted interpretations of biblical history as well as a unique window into how two of the worldâs great faiths came into being.
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9780300171914 | Yale Univ Pr, April 15, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this startling reinterpretation of biblical history, a leading scholar shows how the Bible became the sacred text it is today In this sweeping narrative, Michael Satlow tells the fascinating story of how an ancient collection of obscure Israelite writings became the founding texts of both Judaism and Christianity, considered holy by followers of each faith.
Paperback:
9780300171921 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, April 28, 2015), cover price $25.00
Hardcover:
9780788501593 | Scholars Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $44.95
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9781930675834 | Society of Biblical Literature, December 1, 2014, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Book by Satlow, Michael L.
Product Description: The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Maussâs notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity. â¢Â Features a collection of original essays that cover such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious gifts â¢Â Organizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically â¢Â Generates unique insights into gift-giving and reciprocity in antiquity  â¢Â Takes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient histor...read more
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9781444350241 | Blackwell Pub, April 1, 2013, cover price $121.95 | About this edition: The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Maussâs notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity.
Hardcover:
9780231134880 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $85.00
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9780231134897 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 27, 2006, cover price $35.00
Product Description: Many recent studies have argued that the self is a modern invention, a concept developed in the last three centuries. Religion and the Self in Antiquity challenges that idea by presenting a series of studies that explore the origins, formation, and limits of the self within the religions of the ancient Mediterranean world...read more
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9780253346490 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 2005, cover price $65.00
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9780253217967 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Many recent studies have argued that the self is a modern invention, a concept developed in the last three centuries.
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9780691002552 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 26, 2001, cover price $120.00
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