Giffone, Benjamin D. Storymaking, Textual Development, and Varying Cultic Centralizations: Gathering and Fitting Unhewn Stones. FAT II/142. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. ISBN 978-3-16-156238-9.
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Praise for Storymaking, Textual Development, and Varying Cultic Centralizations:
“Insgesamt ein lesens- und empfehlenswertes Buch, das zu weiterführenden Überlegungen einlädt.” (“Overall, a book worth reading and recommending, which invites further reflection.”)
Beat Weber, AfeT — Rezensionen
“Giffone’s emphasis on (a) storymaker(s), which builds on the studies on ’empirical’ evidence of text conflation, is worthy of further consideration. Giffone’s study successfully highlights the limits with how far the ideas of omission and ‘fresh’ conflation can be taken. While it is certainly true that the presupposition of traditional redaction criticism—that every element of a source was retained across redactional layers—has led to some unintuitive conclusions, the idea that a master editor had complete freedom in choosing his sources and shaping his work clearly does not hold up under honest scrutiny, as Giffone clearly shows. Giffone’s idea of heresthetic, then, provides a novel means of negotiating the interplay between tradition and innovation.”
Jordan Davis, Review of Biblical Literature
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