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

by David M. Carr

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195382420
• ISBN13: 9780195382426
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"