Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing

by Richard A. Horsley

Book Overview

Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. In the ancient world from which those texts originate, however, literacy was confined to only a small number of educated scribes. And, as recent research has shown, even the literate scribes learned texts by repeated recitation, while the nonliterate ordinary people had little if any direct contact with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625641583
• ISBN13: 9781625641588
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"