Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

by Raymond F. Person Jr., Raymond F., Jr.

In Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Raymond F. Person Jr. draws from studies of how words are selected in everyday conversation to illustrate that the same word-selection mechanisms were at work in scribal memory. Using examples from manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, Person provides new ways of understanding the cognitive-linguistic mechanisms at work when scribes transmitted texts. Person reveals that, while...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628373326
• ISBN13: 9781628373325
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"