6th-century Babylonian Talmud instructed the Jews how to regard their sacred books: “What is Torah? It is the interpretation of Torah.” The fixing of texts first came about with the advent of printing, which elevated what was on the page above the spoken, physically felt and thus more mutable word, and then with the search for certainty associated with both the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Scientific rationalism made religion even more earthbound when the churches welcomed it
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2009-11-04 18:09
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