bibliocentric

adjective

bib·lio·cen·tric ¦bi-blē-ə-¦sen-trik

-blē-ō-

: placing great or central importance on printed texts

Neither personal nor grounded in immediate circumstance, his was the more sweeping and fundamental distrust with which a bibliocentric society views one grounded in oral practice …—

Bruce Lincoln, Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship, 1999

Although the bibliocentric nature of the volume is not entirely unexpected given the subject matter, a more conscientious push into the mainstream of historiographic research … would have been welcome.—

Vadim Jigoulov, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1 Apr. 2007

Science journals and reports thrive in an electronic environment. But for bibliocentric disciplines—the humanities and the narrative-driven social sciences—a different calculus applies. Here the book remains the real coin of the academy's imaginary realm.—

William P. Germano, Getting It Published, 2008

: centered on or deriving from the Bible

A bibliocentric regard for sacred texts and the irresistibleness of secular appeal inhabit Tschernichowsky's declaration of faithfulness, a duality that offered a bridge between Hebrew soul and foreign idyll.—

Joe Lockard, American Indian Quarterly, 1 Jan. 2000

Unlike Platonic esoteric thinking, which embraces a form of secrecy that is much more political and is articulated in an environment that did not cultivate a canonic text, i.e., the Greek polis, rabbinic religiosity gravitated around a bibliocentric mentality.—

Moshe Idel, Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation, 2002