Writing on the Tablet of the Heart
Origins of Scripture and Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 November 2009
- ISBN 9780195382426
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages348 pages
- Size 234x156x18 mm
- Weight 485 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 halftones 0
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Long description:
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 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 bedrock of the people: narrative, prophecy, prayer, and wisdom. Generally, mastery was exercised through remarkably exact recall and reproduction of the tradition - whether through oral performance or through production of written "performances." Crises like exile, however, could prompt the creation of radically new versions of the classic tradition, incorporating verbal recall of ancient tradition with various extensions, recontextualizations and supplements. This educational process took place on a one-to-one basis and focused on the cultivation of an educated elite. A major change took place with the arrival of the Hellenistic empires in the fourth and following centuries. This, says Carr, led to the emergence of a democratized Jewish "school" as well as the marking off of the standard Israelite texts as an "anti-canon" to the Hellenistic canon of educational texts that were used in the Greek schools of the Eastern Mediterranean.
In Writing on the Tablet of the Heart David Carr draws on a vast range of evidence to explore writing and the socialization of elites in the ancient Near East and the Hellenistic world. This impressive work contributes vitally to breaking down the distinction between literacy and orality which has often clouded discussions of cultural and administrative institutions in the ancient world, and reaches significant conclusions that will have an impact far beyond its core area of Biblical Studies.
Table of Contents:
Textuality, Orality and the Shaping of the Ancient Mind
Part One: Early Examples of Textuality and Education in the Near East and Mediterranean
Ancient Mesopotamia: The Earliest and Best Documented Textual/Educational System
The Influence of Mesopotamia
Egyptian Education and Textuality
Alphabetically-Based Textuality in Ancient Greece
Textuality and Education in Ancient Israel
Part Two: Textuality and Education in the Eastern Hellenistic World
Education and Textuality in the Hellenistic World: Egypt and Other Examples of Hellenistic Hybridity
Temple and Priest Centered Textuality and Education in Hellenistic Judaism
Qumran as a Window Into Early Jewish Education and Textuality
Synagogue, Sabbath and Scripture: New Forms of Hellenistic Jewish Textuality and Education Beyond the Temple
The Origins of Scripture as a Hellenistic-Style Anti-Hellenistic Curriculum
Concluding Reflections on the Hellenistic Shaping of Jewish Scripture: From Temple to Synagogue and Church
Conclusion
Appendix: The Relation of This Study to Earlier Research
