Torah on the heart : Literary Jewish textuality within its ancient Near Eastern context

dc.contributor.author	Carr, David	eng
dc.date.issued	2010-03	eng
dc.description	This essay examines evidence for the interplay of memory recall and written technology in ancient Israel and surrounding cultures.1 The focus is on recovering the processes by which ancient Israelite authors wrote and revised long-duration texts of the sort found in the Hebrew Bible. Thus, this essay does not address the process by which display, administrative, or other types of texts were written, however important those genres were. Instead, the primary emphasis is on what we can learn from other cultures, epigraphy, manuscripts, and references within the Hebrew Bible itself about the context in which such texts transmitted over long periods of time were composed and revised, texts that might be broadly described as literary-theological in emphasis (such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ptah-Hotep, Homer, the Bible--with "theology" used in its very broadest sense).	eng
dc.description	Issue title: Oral Tradition in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.	eng
dc.format.extent	24 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 25/1 (2010): 17-40.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65203
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	Torah on the heart : Literary Jewish textuality within its ancient Near Eastern context	eng
dc.type	Article	eng