The Cambridge History of the Bible: Volume 1, From the by P. R. Ackroyd, C. F. Evans

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Quantity 1 of The Cambridge heritage of the Bible issues the earliest interval right down to Jerome and takes as its principal subject the method through which the books of either Testaments got here into being and emerged as a canon of scripture, and using canonical writings within the early church.

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G. E. Wright (London, 1961), p. 50 n. 23. 1 Cf. Akkadian sataru '10 write'. The idea of the appointment of administrative officials may have derived from Egypt (cf. Exod. 5: 14). 3 The Shechem tablet may have been written by a schoolmaster complaining that a boy's tuition fees had not yet been paid (\V. F. Albright, BASOR, LXXXVI, 1942, 30). B. Landsberger, however; interprets this as a reference to pederasty (JCS, vm, 1954, 54). 37 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 From the Beginnings to Jerome names of persons (Judg.

W. W. Hallo, 1EJ, XII (1962), 23 ff. and W. G. Lambert, 'Ancestors, authors, and Canonicity', JCS, xi (1957), 1—14. 40 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Boohs in the Ancient World Epic and early historiography There is a general parallelism in subject matter between the early Sumerian literature of the so-called 'Heroic Age' c. C. and the introductory chapters of the Old Testament (Gen. 1-11). Sumerian cycles of individual 'heroes'—the early rulers Enmerkar, Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh—have plots based on historical fact though with some poetic embellishments.

W. G. Lambert, JTS, XVI (1965), 288-300; A.

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