Download or read book Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible written by J. A. Loubser and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of scholarship dealing with the properties and function of the materialities of the oral and scribal arts, as well as oral-scribal interfaces, the author unfolds before our eyes and makes manifest to our ears a world of communications in which there are no original texts, let alone original speech, where manuscripts are written to be remembered and read out aloud, where scribal products exhibit both a metonymic and a polyvalent quality.