David M. Carr

Writing on the Tablet of the Heart Origins of Scripture and Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Origins of Scripture and Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199883875
• Artikelnr.: 42539473

Autorenporträt

David M. Carr is Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of The Erotic Word: Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Bible (OUP, 2003) and several other books.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Textuality, Orality and the Shaping of the Ancient Mind
* Part One: Early Examples of Textuality and Education in the Near East
and Mediterranean
* 2: Ancient Mesopotamia: The Earliest and Best Documented
Textual/Educational System
* 3: The Influence of Mesopotamia
* 4: Egyptian Education and Textuality
* 5: Alphabetically-Based Textuality in Ancient Greece
* 6: Textuality and Education in Ancient Israel
* Part Two: Textuality and Education in the Eastern Hellenistic World
* 7: Education and Textuality in the Hellenistic World: Egypt and Other
Examples of Hellenistic Hybridity
* 8: Temple and Priest Centered Textuality and Education in Hellenistic
Judaism
* 9: Qumran as a Window Into Early Jewish Education and Textuality
* 10: Synagogue, Sabbath and Scripture: New Forms of Hellenistic Jewish
Textuality and Education Beyond the Temple
* 11: The Origins of Scripture as a Hellenistic-Style Anti-Hellenistic
Curriculum
* 12: Concluding Reflections on the Hellenistic Shaping of Jewish
Scripture: From Temple to Synagogue and Church
* 13: Conclusion
* Appendix: The Relation of This Study to Earlier Research