Writing on the Tablet of the Heart : Origins of Scripture and Literature.
Title:
Writing on the Tablet of the Heart : Origins of Scripture and Literature.
Author:
Carr, David M.
ISBN:
9780195346695
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Textuality, Orality, and the Shaping of the Ancient Mind -- PART I: 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 and Education in Ancient Greece -- 6. Textuality and Education in Ancient Israel -- PART II: 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 -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Citations of Primary Text -- Index of Select Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.
Abstract:
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 othertexts 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 memorizeand recite a wide range of traditional literature that was seen as the cultural bedorck of the people: narrative, prophecy, prayer, and wisdom.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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