<a href="http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/25gpe5nz9780252032844.html">http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/25gpe5nz9780252032844.html</a><br><br>"Seth L. Sanders connects the Bible's distinctive linguistic
form--writing down a local spoken language--to a cultural desire to
speak directly to people, summoning them to join a new community that
the text itself helped call into being. ... Sanders demonstrates how
Hebrew assumed and promoted a source of power previously unknown in
written literature: "the people" as the protagonist of religion and
politics."<br><br>Via Jim Davila's PaleoJudaica: <a href="http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2009_12_13_archive.html#1730556120745890277">http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2009_12_13_archive.html#1730556120745890277</a><br>
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