Committee Speak
Robert Alter: Bible Writers, 19 July 2007
Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
by Karel vander Toorn.
Harvard, 401 pp., £22.95, March 2007,978 0 674 02437 3 Show More
by Karel vander Toorn.
Harvard, 401 pp., £22.95, March 2007,
“... This scrupulous study by the Dutch scholar Karel vander Toorn of how the Hebrew Bible was written and then evolved over time is in most respects finely instructive. Some of what Toorn has to say involves concepts long familiar to Bible scholars, though even in this regard he provides many fresh insights ... ”
