Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israels Prophetic Library Mastnjak Nathan
Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israels Prophetic Library Mastnjak Nathan Before the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus to propose a material approach to…
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Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israels Prophetic Library Mastnjak Nathan
Before the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus to propose a material approach to biblical literature. This assumption pervades centuries of scholarship and drives many of the questions asked about biblical composition. Although scholars understand that the material of composition was the scroll rather than the codex, they persist in imagining the form as a single textual object.
Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel were originally composed on loosely organized collections of multiple short papyrus scrolls and sheets. Nathan Mastnjak raises the question of the original physical format of biblical texts and argues that many of the literary works that would eventually become the Bible's prophetic books were not written initially as books. Though rarely considered in scholarship, the realia of a text's form, format, production, and material substance have a