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Judaic Technologies of the Word : a Cognitive Analysis of Jewish Cultural Formation / Gabriel Levy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781317543459
  • 1317543459
  • 9781315728612
  • 1315728613
  • 9781317543435
  • 1317543432
  • 9781317543442
  • 1317543440
  • 1908049847
  • 9781908049841
  • 9781138856127
  • 1138856126
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Judaic Technologies of the Word : A Cognitive Analysis of Jewish Cultural Formation.DDC classification:
  • 296.01/9 296.019
LOC classification:
  • BM157 .L48 2014
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
What is cognition? -- Control -- Networks -- Rationality -- Names -- Hypertext -- Environment.
Summary: 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 ...
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)869667

Print version record.

What is cognition? -- Control -- Networks -- Rationality -- Names -- Hypertext -- Environment.

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 ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-210) and index.