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Judaic Technologies of the Word : A Cognitive Analysis of Jewish Cultural Formation

A Cognitive Analysis of Jewish Cultural Formation

  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

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For history, culture, and theology students

Explores how written texts influence our brains

Shows you how faith exists within the material

This fascinating study uses cognitive science to explain how literacy and text shaped Jewish cultural history.

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Judaic Technologies of the Word argues that Judaism does not exist in an abstract space of reflection. Rather, it exists both in artifacts of the material world - such as texts - and in the bodies, brains, hearts, and minds of individual people. More than this, Judaic bodies and texts, both oral and written, connect and feed back on one another. Judaic Technologies of the Word examines how technologies of literacy interact with bodies and minds over time. The emergence of literacy is now understood to be a decisive factor in religious history, and is central to the transformations that took place in the ancient Near East in the first millennium BCE. This study employs insights from the cognitive sciences to pursue a deep history of Judaism, one in which the distinctions between biology and culture begin to disappear.

  • Title

    Judaic Technologies of the Word : A Cognitive Analysis of Jewish Cultural Formation

  • Author

    Gabriel Levy

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    April 2015

  • Weight

    323g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781138856127

  • ISBN-10

    1138856126

  • Eden Code

    4442655