Writing, Affordances, and Governable Subjects
The book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible makes a number of references to writing and to the importance of Israel carefully observing the commands, statutes, and ordinances written in the book. Readers can then conform themselves and their behaviors according to the subjectivity of Israel the b...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Karl Franzens Universität Graz
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Journal for Religion, Film and Media |
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| Online Access: | https://unipub.uni-graz.at/jrfm/periodical/titleinfo/6082636 |
| Summary: | The book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible makes a number of references to writing
and to the importance of Israel carefully observing the commands, statutes, and
ordinances written in the book. Readers can then conform themselves and their behaviors
according to the subjectivity of Israel the book sets forth. The process of conforming
oneself to what is written in a book makes use of particular affordances of
writing, a technology that was becoming more widespread at the time Deuteronomy
was being written. The materiality of the book and the social uses to which writing
and books could be put are being realized in Deuteronomy in order to create people as
particular subjects called “Israel.” |
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| ISSN: | 2414-0201 2414-0201 |