Writing on the Tablet of the Heart

Origins of Scripture and Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-517297-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 684 g

This book explores a new model for the production, revision, and reception of Biblical texts as Scripture. Building on recent studies of the oral/written interface in medieval, Greco-Roman and ancinet 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 bedorck of the people: narrative, prophecy, prayer, and wisdom.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of religion and cultural studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carr, David M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

David M. Carr, Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Union Theological Seminary