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Providing a comprehensive study of “oral tradition” in Israel, this volume unpacks the nature of oral tradition, the form it would have taken in ancient Israel, and the remains of it in the narrative books of the Hebrew Bible. The author presents cases of oral/written interaction that provide the best ethnographic analogies for ancient Israel and insights from these suggest a model of...

Deut 31:26 27 and bypasses the trend in similar societies for literature to be oral even among the literate.28 The most curious factor is the restriction of written texts to small, obscure sites: Izbet Sartah, Khirbet Tannin, and Manahat. Why no inscriptions from Shechem, Dothan, Shiloh, Tell el-Farah North, Ai, Bethel, Gibeon, Gibeah—if scribalism was, indeed, an indulgence of the elite? Since the discovery of the Tel Zayit Abecedary, there has been much discussion about literacy in the tenth and
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