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Chapter 1 examines two crucial theoretical questions for the study that follows: when did the writing of Hebrew prose emerge in the ancient world, and what type of knowledge informed the creation of prose texts that recounted past occurrences? This chapter begins by addressing the historical question of when? by drawing on recent epigraphic evidence from the Iron Age period and connecting this evidence to considerations surrounding the rise of vernacular writing and its interface with older, oral forms of discourse. After establishing a rough terminus post quem for the emergence of written Hebrew prose, this chapter then transitions into a study of the type of knowledge that would have been available to those scribes who created these prose writings. Drawing on the insights of Foucault, this chapter concludes by drawing attention to what is termed an episteme of memory that informed biblical storytelling. |
