tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9826564.post5243429907551863908..comments2023-11-02T08:13:59.718-07:00Comments on Serving the Word: Scribes and Craftsmen, Inscriptions and Audiences in the Iron Age Levant: Some Modest ProposalsJerry A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08812948018965798765noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9826564.post-72647774577587039382011-03-07T21:53:10.104-08:002011-03-07T21:53:10.104-08:00a nice related post:
http://www.telecomtally.com/b...a nice related post:<br />http://www.telecomtally.com/blog/2008/01/semi-literates_in_the_hinterlands_of_ugarit.htmlSeth L. Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532416306563469221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9826564.post-48200315593399954082010-11-19T07:14:15.483-08:002010-11-19T07:14:15.483-08:00"5. The near-total disconnect between image-m..."5. The near-total disconnect between image-maker and scribe may be found in the text wrapped around the Tel Fekheriye statue."<br /><br />Though not a NWS inscription, I wonder if the Idrimi statue/inscription also fits in this category...Andrew Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00052615693144935848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9826564.post-78424112027390001132010-11-18T09:31:10.967-08:002010-11-18T09:31:10.967-08:00Great stuff :) We live in a world that has been pr...Great stuff :) We live in a world that has been progressively detaching word from thing. Think Incanabula, 19th century mass produced novels, 20th century paperbacks, and now e-books... <br /><br />Except doesn't writing already begin this process, by detaching word from breath, even a clay tablet is freer geographically and in time than a spoken word... <br /><br />It's always both, even the e-book still inevitably has physical presence, but even the spoken word if heard (even only by the speaker) has reminiscence and so a "virtuality" freer in time and space...Tim Bulkeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289349880110581469noreply@blogger.com