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Author Carr, David McLain, 1961-

Title Writing on the tablet of the heart : origins of Scripture and literature / David M. Carr.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and indexes.
Contents List of Abbreviations; 1. Textuality, Orality, and the Shaping of the Ancient Mind; 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 and Education in Ancient Greece; 6. Textuality and Education in Ancient Israel; 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.
Summary 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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Subject Bible. Old Testament -- Social scientific criticism.
Bible. Old Testament.
Social scientific criticism of sacred works.
Bible. Old Testament -- Social scientific criticism.
Literature and society -- Mediterranean Region.
Literature and society.
Mediterranean Region.
Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism.
Literature, Ancient.
Socialization -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500.
Socialization.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Carr, David McLain, 1961- Writing on the tablet of the heart. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0195172973 (DLC) 2004005441 (OCoLC)54753370
ISBN 142372089X (electronic book)
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9781280704390
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