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Authorship and Author in the Ancient Near East and in the Hebrew Bible
- Hebrew Studies
- National Association of Professors of Hebrew
- Volume 44, 2003
- pp. 157-169
- 10.1353/hbr.2003.0015
- Article
- Additional Information
This article deals with two main issues: "authorship" as a cultural-literary phenomenon in the ancient Near East and in the Hebrew Bible and its importance for the understanding of a text. It presents two hypotheses regarding the possible authors of Job and Ecclesiastes that suggest some ways and means for discovering "hidden" authors in the Hebrew Bible.