Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

John Andrew Dearman

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Book Reviews / Horizons in Biblical Th eology 30 (2008) 71-102 97 Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible . By Karel van der Toorn. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 401. $35.00. “If we are to understand the making of the Hebrew Bible, we must familiarize ourselves with the scribal culture that produced it” (p. 1). In nine chapters van der Toorn oﬀers an engaging examination of that culture, with extensive comparisons to Mesopotamian cul- ture, where the scribal culture is better documented. Th e ﬁrst two chapters explore aspects of writing in antiquity. Ancient “books” are

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