David Carr is professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York and the author of Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature (Oxford University Press).
Articles by David Carr
Books
How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel
It is easy for us to underestimate the aura that surrounded a written text in the ancient world. As you read this review, you are performing something that once seemed like magic: converting signs on a printed page into human speech.
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