David M Carr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Carr |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Carr |
| SIGNATURE | CARR D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-8652-7980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond
This volume collects thirteen essays by David M. Carr which join the study of the formation of the Pentateuch with research on other topics, from material history to animal studies. It begins with a detailed history of the last half-century of scholarship on the formation of the Pentateuch along with more general essays on the rationale for such study and on other methodological issues in Pentateuchal research. Two subsequent sections collect ess…
From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond
This volume collects essays by David M. Carr which move from a survey of the last half-century of scholarship on Pentateuchal theory to the rationale for and methodologies for such study. Its concluding essays link such research to questions of oral transmission, material history, literary and animal studies.
Text Density, Scroll Carrying Capacity and Pre-Biblical Sources
For centuries biblical scholars have relied on data from the Hebrew Bible itself to construct hypotheses about its pre-biblical written sources.Only rarely, however, have they informed such hypotheses with specific information about the material medium, namely bookrolls/scrolls, on which these sources were originally inscribed.1This article focuses on the question of the carrying capacity of ancient literary scrolls and a likely shift in such car…
The Bible and the Domestication of the World
Written in an agricultural context oriented around life and work with domesticated animals, the Bible’s texts, from Genesis 1 onward, endorse a picture of human destiny to farm the land and dominate other living beings. In doing so, the Bible contrasts with the cosmologies of low-domesticating indigenous cultures in privileging domesticating and domestication-like modes of relationship between sentient beings. This is not limited to the Bible’s p…
Rethinking the Materiality of Biblical Texts
This article shows how attention to the dynamics surrounding production and revision of ancient Near Eastern scrolls can help scholars develop better models for the development and early use of the Bible. Though pioneers pursing such a scroll approach were confined to limited data in the Bible and rabbinic literature, we now have a wealth of data on scrolls from Egypt, Levantine sites like Deir ʿAlla, and Qumran. After discussing the use of scrol…
Reflections on Temporal Perspective
In this article I focus on the temporal aspects of the historian's situation: being in the present and representing the past. Writing is a time-bound process. It is in this context that the notion of temporal perspective arises. What follows is a series of reflections, variations on the theme, perhaps, of temporal perspective as it figures in historical writing. The concept of hindsight figures prominently in these reflections. I also deal with e…
Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
The distinctiveness of this commentary lies in its consistent rotation between synchronic and diachronic views. This double perspective is directed toward the three prophetic books as a single entity, toward each individual book, and toward the interpretation of each pericope. The result is a sophisticated picture, on the one hand of the structure and intention of the texts in their final form, and on the other hand of their compositional history…
The Moses Story
Building on recent trends in scholarship, this article studies the formation of the written Moses story as a discrete literary unit, as opposed to primarily treating its stories as mere components in the broader formation of the Pentateuch. After a review of how study of the Moses story has and has not been linked with broader trends in pentateuchal research, the article traces six relatively reconstructable stages in the formation of the Moses s…
The Pentateuch as Torah
Since antiquity, the five books of Moses have served as a sacred constitution, foundational for both Jews and Samaritans. However long the process of accepting the Pentateuch as authoritative tōrâ (“instruction”) took, this was by all accounts a monumental achievement in the history of these peoples and indeed an important moment in the history of the ancient world. In the long development of Western societies, the Pentateuch has served as a majo…
The Rise of Torah
History as Orientation
Geschichte im Kulturprozeß. By Jörn RüsenHistory: Narration, Interpretation, Orientation. By Jörn Rüsen
On feeling and emotion in religious experience and understanding
Although most if not all human activities may be matters of passionate pursuit, it is less clear that emotions and feelings are inherently implicated in such pursuit: on the contrary, chemistry, cookery, sculpture or football might be effectively pursued without any significant or substantial emotional involvement. On the other hand, it seems less easy to see how religious experience or even religious understanding might be an entirely dispassion…
The Paradox of Subjectivity
Book Review| July 01 2001 The Paradox of Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition THE PARADOX OF SUBJECTIVITY: THE SELF IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRADITION. By David Carr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 150. David Carr David Carr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 454–456. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-3-454 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Spiritual Language and the Ethics of Redemption
I argue in this paper that Jim Mackenzie's critique of my recent work on religious and spiritual education fails on two main counts. First, his imputation to me of a confessional approach to religious education is simply misdirected, insofar as my previous papers are quite clearly concerned to sketch an alternative to both confessional and phenomenological approaches. Secondly, his attempt to reduce my ‘spiritual truths’ to moral and other claims…
Is Understanding the Professional Knowledge of Teachers a Theory-Practice Problem
The currently fashionable professional ideal of reflective practice has focused on how good teaching might be informed by theoretical (invariably social scientific) enquiry and has been commonly construed as a matter of the effective application of theory. This paper rejects technicist assumptions underpinning the idea of applied theory, tracing them to confusion between two different sorts of practical deliberation, phronesis and techne. Underst…
Knowledge and Truth in Religious Education
It is reasonable to expect, with regard to any traditional academic subject, that it should be capable of being made good sense of as a rational form of knowledge or enquiry focused upon the discernment of truths of one sort or another concerning the world or human affairs. One curriculum area which has generally been held to be problematic in this respect, for a mixture of epistemological, social, ethical and pedagogical reasons, is that of reli…
Sequel to History
The Self Imagined
Interpreting Husserl--Critical and Comparative Studies
Edmund Husserl's importance for the philosophy of our century is immense, but his influence has followed a curious path. Rather than continuous it has been recurrent, ambulatory and somehow irrepressible: no sooner does it wane in one locality than it springs up in another. After playing a major role in Germany during his lifetime, Husserl had been filed away in the history-books of that country when he was discovered by the French during and aft…
Time and Narrative
Narrative and the Real World
What is the relation between a narrative and the events it depicts? This is one of the questions that have been debated by many contributors to the lively interdisciplinary discussion of narrative in recent years. The debate concerns the truthfulness, in a very broad sense of that term, of narrative accounts. Traditional narrative histories claim to tell us what really happened. Fictional narratives portray events that of course by definition nev…
The Free Child and the Spoiled Child
Narrative and the Real World
What is the relation between a narrative and the events it depicts? This is one of the questions that have been debated by many contributors to the lively interdisciplinary discussion of narrative in recent years. The debate concerns the truthfulness, in a very broad sense of that term, of narrative accounts. Traditional narrative histories claim to tell us what really happened. Fictional narratives portray events that of course by definition nev…
Is Understanding the Professional Knowledge of Teachers a Theory-Practice Problem
The currently fashionable professional ideal of reflective practice has focused on how good teaching might be informed by theoretical (invariably social scientific) enquiry and has been commonly construed as a matter of the effective application of theory. This paper rejects technicist assumptions underpinning the idea of applied theory, tracing them to confusion between two different sorts of practical deliberation, phronesis and techne. Underst…
Knowledge and Truth in Religious Education
It is reasonable to expect, with regard to any traditional academic subject, that it should be capable of being made good sense of as a rational form of knowledge or enquiry focused upon the discernment of truths of one sort or another concerning the world or human affairs. One curriculum area which has generally been held to be problematic in this respect, for a mixture of epistemological, social, ethical and pedagogical reasons, is that of reli…
Interpreting Husserl--Critical and Comparative Studies
Edmund Husserl's importance for the philosophy of our century is immense, but his influence has followed a curious path. Rather than continuous it has been recurrent, ambulatory and somehow irrepressible: no sooner does it wane in one locality than it springs up in another. After playing a major role in Germany during his lifetime, Husserl had been filed away in the history-books of that country when he was discovered by the French during and aft…
History as Orientation
Geschichte im Kulturprozeß. By Jörn RüsenHistory: Narration, Interpretation, Orientation. By Jörn Rüsen
The Paradox of Subjectivity
Book Review| July 01 2001 The Paradox of Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition THE PARADOX OF SUBJECTIVITY: THE SELF IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRADITION. By David Carr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 150. David Carr David Carr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 454–456. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-3-454 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
The Self Imagined
Spiritual Language and the Ethics of Redemption
I argue in this paper that Jim Mackenzie's critique of my recent work on religious and spiritual education fails on two main counts. First, his imputation to me of a confessional approach to religious education is simply misdirected, insofar as my previous papers are quite clearly concerned to sketch an alternative to both confessional and phenomenological approaches. Secondly, his attempt to reduce my ‘spiritual truths’ to moral and other claims…
The Free Child and the Spoiled Child
Narrative and the Real World
What is the relation between a narrative and the events it depicts? This is one of the questions that have been debated by many contributors to the lively interdisciplinary discussion of narrative in recent years. The debate concerns the truthfulness, in a very broad sense of that term, of narrative accounts. Traditional narrative histories claim to tell us what really happened. Fictional narratives portray events that of course by definition nev…
The Self Imagined
Interpreting Husserl--Critical and Comparative Studies
Edmund Husserl's importance for the philosophy of our century is immense, but his influence has followed a curious path. Rather than continuous it has been recurrent, ambulatory and somehow irrepressible: no sooner does it wane in one locality than it springs up in another. After playing a major role in Germany during his lifetime, Husserl had been filed away in the history-books of that country when he was discovered by the French during and aft…
Time and Narrative
Sequel to History
Knowledge and Truth in Religious Education
It is reasonable to expect, with regard to any traditional academic subject, that it should be capable of being made good sense of as a rational form of knowledge or enquiry focused upon the discernment of truths of one sort or another concerning the world or human affairs. One curriculum area which has generally been held to be problematic in this respect, for a mixture of epistemological, social, ethical and pedagogical reasons, is that of reli…
Is Understanding the Professional Knowledge of Teachers a Theory-Practice Problem
The currently fashionable professional ideal of reflective practice has focused on how good teaching might be informed by theoretical (invariably social scientific) enquiry and has been commonly construed as a matter of the effective application of theory. This paper rejects technicist assumptions underpinning the idea of applied theory, tracing them to confusion between two different sorts of practical deliberation, phronesis and techne. Underst…
Spiritual Language and the Ethics of Redemption
I argue in this paper that Jim Mackenzie's critique of my recent work on religious and spiritual education fails on two main counts. First, his imputation to me of a confessional approach to religious education is simply misdirected, insofar as my previous papers are quite clearly concerned to sketch an alternative to both confessional and phenomenological approaches. Secondly, his attempt to reduce my ‘spiritual truths’ to moral and other claims…
The Paradox of Subjectivity
Book Review| July 01 2001 The Paradox of Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition THE PARADOX OF SUBJECTIVITY: THE SELF IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRADITION. By David Carr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 150. David Carr David Carr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 454–456. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-3-454 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
On feeling and emotion in religious experience and understanding
Although most if not all human activities may be matters of passionate pursuit, it is less clear that emotions and feelings are inherently implicated in such pursuit: on the contrary, chemistry, cookery, sculpture or football might be effectively pursued without any significant or substantial emotional involvement. On the other hand, it seems less easy to see how religious experience or even religious understanding might be an entirely dispassion…
History as Orientation
Geschichte im Kulturprozeß. By Jörn RüsenHistory: Narration, Interpretation, Orientation. By Jörn Rüsen
The Pentateuch as Torah
Since antiquity, the five books of Moses have served as a sacred constitution, foundational for both Jews and Samaritans. However long the process of accepting the Pentateuch as authoritative tōrâ (“instruction”) took, this was by all accounts a monumental achievement in the history of these peoples and indeed an important moment in the history of the ancient world. In the long development of Western societies, the Pentateuch has served as a majo…
The Rise of Torah
The Moses Story
Building on recent trends in scholarship, this article studies the formation of the written Moses story as a discrete literary unit, as opposed to primarily treating its stories as mere components in the broader formation of the Pentateuch. After a review of how study of the Moses story has and has not been linked with broader trends in pentateuchal research, the article traces six relatively reconstructable stages in the formation of the Moses s…
Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
The distinctiveness of this commentary lies in its consistent rotation between synchronic and diachronic views. This double perspective is directed toward the three prophetic books as a single entity, toward each individual book, and toward the interpretation of each pericope. The result is a sophisticated picture, on the one hand of the structure and intention of the texts in their final form, and on the other hand of their compositional history…
Reflections on Temporal Perspective
In this article I focus on the temporal aspects of the historian's situation: being in the present and representing the past. Writing is a time-bound process. It is in this context that the notion of temporal perspective arises. What follows is a series of reflections, variations on the theme, perhaps, of temporal perspective as it figures in historical writing. The concept of hindsight figures prominently in these reflections. I also deal with e…
Rethinking the Materiality of Biblical Texts
This article shows how attention to the dynamics surrounding production and revision of ancient Near Eastern scrolls can help scholars develop better models for the development and early use of the Bible. Though pioneers pursing such a scroll approach were confined to limited data in the Bible and rabbinic literature, we now have a wealth of data on scrolls from Egypt, Levantine sites like Deir ʿAlla, and Qumran. After discussing the use of scrol…
The Bible and the Domestication of the World
Written in an agricultural context oriented around life and work with domesticated animals, the Bible’s texts, from Genesis 1 onward, endorse a picture of human destiny to farm the land and dominate other living beings. In doing so, the Bible contrasts with the cosmologies of low-domesticating indigenous cultures in privileging domesticating and domestication-like modes of relationship between sentient beings. This is not limited to the Bible’s p…
From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond
This volume collects thirteen essays by David M. Carr which join the study of the formation of the Pentateuch with research on other topics, from material history to animal studies. It begins with a detailed history of the last half-century of scholarship on the formation of the Pentateuch along with more general essays on the rationale for such study and on other methodological issues in Pentateuchal research. Two subsequent sections collect ess…
From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond
This volume collects essays by David M. Carr which move from a survey of the last half-century of scholarship on Pentateuchal theory to the rationale for and methodologies for such study. Its concluding essays link such research to questions of oral transmission, material history, literary and animal studies.
Text Density, Scroll Carrying Capacity and Pre-Biblical Sources
For centuries biblical scholars have relied on data from the Hebrew Bible itself to construct hypotheses about its pre-biblical written sources.Only rarely, however, have they informed such hypotheses with specific information about the material medium, namely bookrolls/scrolls, on which these sources were originally inscribed.1This article focuses on the question of the carrying capacity of ancient literary scrolls and a likely shift in such car…
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