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The Deuteronomic School: History, Social Setting, and Literature (Studies in Biblical Literature, Number 2)

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After a brief review of the present state of research on the Deuteronomistic History (DtrH), Person proposes four perspectives to move the argument forward and to gain new insights: using text-critical controls for redactional arguments; the contribution of the study of oral tradition to consider the composition and transmission of biblical texts in ancient Israel; arguments for the postexilic setting of the Deuteronomic school; and using comparative material (Udjahorresnet and Qumran) to consider scribal guilds, such as the Deuteronomic school, in ancient Israel. The result of these new perspectives challenge the most widely accepted understandings of the redaction history of DtrH and suggest that the Deuteronomic school used to be a scribal guild whose redactional activity spanned a long time period from possibly as early as the pre-exilic period to the Persian period in a while before Ezra. Person’s reconstruction of the social setting of the Deuteronomic school includes their return from Babylon to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel with a purpose to reinforce the rebuilding of the temple with their scribal skills. This reconstruction results in new interpretations of Deuteronomic literature (DtrH and Jeremiah).

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