meaning of a sentence
Does
"There were many political, cultural, and spiritual reasons for embodying the text within itself, but one was the need to distinguish it from the classical and pagan way of seeing the texts as disembodied, in a sense lacking a voice that needed to be contained within a reciter."
mean...
"There were many political, cultural, and spiritual reasons for enclosing text inside text, but one was the need to distinguish this kind of text from classical text, in the way that text within text did not give the feeling of having a certain reciter or narrator".