Beyond the written word : oral aspects of scripture in the history of religion / William A. Graham.
By: Graham, William A. (William Albert)
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TextPublisher: Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987Description: xiv, 306 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521331765Subject(s): Bible -- Theology | Qurʼan -- Theology | Sacred books -- History and criticism | Word of God (Islam) | Word of God (Christian theology)DDC classification: 291.82 LOC classification: BL71 | .G7 1987| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 244-284.
Part I. Written and Spoken Words: Writing and written culture ; The print textuality of modern culture ; Books, reading and literacy in the premodern west -- Part II. Written and Spoken Scripture: Scripture in Judeo-Christian perspective ; Holy writ and holy word ; Scripture as spoken word: the Indian paradigm -- Part III. 'An Arabic Reciting': Qur'an as Spoken Book: Revelation and recitation ; Muslim scripture as spoken word ; Voicing the Qur`an : questions of meaning -- Part IV. 'The Lively Oracles of God': Bible as Spoken Word: The spoken word of Christian holy writ ; God's word in the desert ; Hearing and seeing : the rhetoric of Martin Luther.
"This is a book about the fundamental orality of scripture, that is, about the significant oral roles of written sacred texts in the history of religion." -- preface.
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