Writing on the Tablet of the Heart Origins of Scripture and Literature

Name: Writing on the Tablet of the Heart Origins of Scripture and Literature
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ISBN: 9780195382426

ISBN-10: 0195382420

ISBN-13: 9780195382426

Edition: 2009

Authors: David M. Carr

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This book explores a new model for the production, revision, and reception of Biblical texts as Scripture. Building on recent studies of the oralwritten interface in medieval, Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern contexts, David Carr argues that in ancient Israel Biblical texts and other texts emerged as a support for an educational process in which written and oral dimensions were integrally intertwined. The point was not incising and reading texts on parchment or papyrus. The point was to enculturate ancient Israelites -- particularly Israelite elites -- by training them to memorize and recite a wide range of traditional literature that was seen as the cultural bedrock of the people:…

Book details

List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English