![]() Īnd script, and was activated by the professional during the processes of speaking, writing, and decoding, Israel inclined toward oral modes of performative power, which naturally centered the locus of power more firmly on the speaker. In Mesopotamia and Egypt, performative power was centered in the divine sign. Scripts played formative roles in Mesopotamian and Egyptian conceptions of the divine sign, the non-pictographic script played a role in shaping the Israelite conception The Hebrew Bible’s preference for referencing oral as opposed to written modes of per.įormative power also might represent a conceptual shift with regard to the perceived locus of this power. It therefore seems likely that in the same way that pictographi ![]() ![]() Though later Jewish tradition recalls the role of the alphabet in the creative process (Babylonian Talmud Menahot 20b: Midrash Rabbah 1:10).
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