Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures. By Philip R. Davies. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998, xi + 219 pp., $24.00.

The work is designed to discuss the social circumstances lying behind the canonization of Scripture. The author states that no scholarship ever approaches a set of data without "some prejudices and preconceptions" (p. 3). His prejudice is that Biblical scholarship's construction (or reconstruction) of the canonical process is to be preferred over the main (i.e. Biblical) construction of canon for "no scholars believe that the ten commandments ...

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