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

Origins of Scripture and Literature

by David M. Carr

  • Paperback
  • 348 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.9 cm

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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 oralDSwritten 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: narrative, prophecy, prayer, and wisdom. Generally, mastery was exercised through remarkably exact recall and reproduction of the tradition - whether through oral performance or through production of written "performances." Crises like exile, however, could prompt the creation of radically new versions of the classic tradition, incorporating verbal recall of ancient tradition with various extensions, recontextualizations and supplements.This educational process took place on a one-to-one basis and focused on the cultivation of an educated elite.A major change took place with the arrival of the Hellenistic empires in the fourth and following centuries. This, says Carr, led to the emergence of a democratized Jewish "school" as well as the marking off of the standard Israelite texts as an "anti-canon" to the Hellenistic canon of educational texts that were used in the Greek schools of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Writing on the Tablet of the Heart Origins of Scripture and Literature and The Hebrew Bible: A Contemporary Introduction to the Christian Old Testament and the Jewish Tanakh
The Hebrew Bible: A Contemporary Introduction to the Christian Old Testament and the Jewish TanakhWriting on the Tablet of the Heart Origins of Scripture and Literature

  • Author

    David M. Carr

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    November 2009

  • Weight

    486g

  • Page Count

    348

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195382426

  • ISBN-10

    0195382420

  • Eden Code

    1236161

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