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Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins

Jacob L. Wright

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 31st, 2023
  • Pages: 300
  • Language: English
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9781108490931
  • Categories: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General

About the Author

Wright, Jacob L.: - Jacob L. Wright is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. His first book, Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and its Earliest Readers (de Gruyter, 2004), won the 2008 Templeton prize for a first book in the field of religion. He is also the author of David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which won The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research, and most recently, War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible (Cambridge University Press, 2020).