From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel (1998 Cross), book
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From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel (1998) is a book by Frank Moore Cross.
Abstract
Editions and translations
Published in Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Reprinted in Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Table of contents
- Part I: Epic Traditions of Early Israel
- 1. Kinship and Covenant in Early Israel
- 2. Traditional Narrative and the Reconstruction of Early Israelite Institutions
- 3. Reuben, the Firstborn of Jacob: Sacral Traditions and Early Israelite History
- Part II: Priestly Lore and Its Near Eastern Background
- 4. The "Olden Gods" in Ancient Near Eastern Creation Myths and in Israel
- 5. The Priestly Tabernacle and the Temple of Solomon
- Part III: Studies in the Structure of Hebrew Verse
- 6. The Prosody of Lamentations 1 and the Psalm of Jonah
- 7. Toward a History of Hebrew Prosody
- Part IV: Return to Zion
- 8. A Reconstruction of the Judaean Restoration
- 9. Samaria and Jerusalem in the Era of the Restoration
- Part V: Qumran and the History of the Biblical Text
- 10. The Fixation of the Text of the Hebrew Bible
- 11. The Stabilization of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible
- 12. Alphabets and Pots: Reflections on Typological Method in the Dating of Artifacts