[lg policy] New book: The Invention of Hebrew

[Slavomír Čéplö]

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/25gpe5nz9780252032844.html

"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."

Via Jim Davila's PaleoJudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2009_12_13_archive.html#1730556120745890277
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