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Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature
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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 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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David M. Carr makes a similar point concerning ideologies of the past in the Hebrew Bible: the distant past is never past but stands in the ancient world as a potentially realizable present to which each generation seeks to return.
“David M. Carr makes a similar point concerning ideologies of the past in the Hebrew Bible: “[The distant] past is never 'past' in the way we might conceive it but stands in the ancient world as a potentially realizable 'present' to which each generation seeks to return””
From The Creation of Adam and the Biblical Origins of Race in The Slave’s Friend (1836–1838) (2021) · cites this paper as Carr 2005
In ancient scribalism, texts functioned to support scribes' memory (mnemonic aids) and oral performance (reference points).
“the texts functioned to support scribes' memory (mnemonic aids) and oral performance (reference points)”
From Killing Pharaohs in Exodus: The Anonymity of the Egyptian Kings, the Deconstruction of Their Individuality, and the Egyptian Practice of Damnatio Memoriae (2023) · cites this paper as Carr 2005, pp. 159-61
Scribes in antiquity frequently relied on memory as the source of the productions of texts and the transmissions of oral messages.
“scribes in antiquity frequently relied on memory as the source of the productions of the texts and the transmissions of the oral messages”
From Killing Pharaohs in Exodus: The Anonymity of the Egyptian Kings, the Deconstruction of Their Individuality, and the Egyptian Practice of Damnatio Memoriae (2023) · cites this paper as Carr 2005, pp. 159-62
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- Authors
- Carr, D. M.
- Corresponding author
- Carr, David M
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressNew York, NY
- Published
- 2005-03-10
- OpenAlex
- W3000055724
- Cited by
- 316
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 33.26
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient Near East History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Keywords
- biblical text formation, scripture, orality and literacy, memorization, recitation, ancient Israel, enculturation, Greco-Roman context, Hebrew Bible, wisdom literature, prophecy, narrative, prayer
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