Dead Sea Media

Orality, Textuality, and Memory in the Scrolls from the Judean Desert
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40771-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

In Dead Sea Media Shem Miller offers a groundbreaking media criticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Although past studies have underappreciated the crucial roles of orality and memory in the social setting of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Miller convincingly demonstrates that oral performance, oral tradition, and oral transmission were vital components of everyday life in the communities associated with the Scrolls. In addition to being literary documents, the Dead Sea Scrolls were also records of both scribal and cultural memories, as well as oral traditions and oral performance. An examination of the Scrolls’ textuality reveals the oral and mnemonic background of several scribal practices and literary characteristics reflected in the Scrolls.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Shem

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Textual Criticism

2 Media Criticism

3 Media Studies

4 Summary

1 Oral Performance

1 Oral Performance of Members

2 Oral Performance of Leaders

3 Conclusion

2 Oral Tradition and Oral Authority

1 Oral Tradition

2 Oral-Traditional Texts

3 Oral Law and Oral Authority

4 Oral Transmission

5 Conclusion

3 Oral-Written Textuality

1 Stichometry and Colometry

2 Literary Functions of Stichography

3 Oral Functions of Stichography

4 Sociolinguistic Setting of Stichography

5 Conclusion

4 Oral-Written Register

1 Special Layouts

2 Spacing Techniques

3 Special Codes

4 Conclusion

5 Cultural Memory

1 Performance Criticism

2 Sociolinguistic Context of the Hodayot

3 Cultural Memory of Membership

4 Performance Role of the Maskil

5 Cultural Memory of Leadership

6 Conclusion

6 Scribal Memory

1 Scribal Memory and Scribal Performance

2 Long-Term Memory

3 Episodic Memory

4 Short-Term Memory

5 The Hodayot

6 The Community Rule

7 Conclusion

Conclusion

1 An Ancient Media Criticism

2 Dead Sea Media

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Shem Miller, Ph.D. (2012) in Religions of Western Antiquity, Florida State University, is an Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi.