Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israel's Prophetic Library

by Nathan Mastnjak

Before the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus to propose a material approach to biblical literature. 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. This assumption pervades centuries of scholarship and drives many of the questions asked about biblical composition. Nathan Mastnjak raises the question of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190911093
• ISBN13: 9780190911096
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"