By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors intentionally place Jewish, Christian, Roman, Greek and other reading circles back into their encompassing historical context, avoiding subdivisions along modern subject lines, divisions still bearing marks of cultural and ideological interests.
In their examination, contributors avoid dwelling upon traditional methodological debates over orality vs. literacy and social classifications of literacy, instead turning their attention to the social-historical: groups of people, circles and networks, strata and class, scribal culture, material culture, epigraphic and papyrological evidence, functions and types of literacy and the social relationships that all of these entail. Overall, the volume contributes to an emerging and important interdisciplinary collaboration between specialists in ancient literacy, encouraging future discussion between two currently divided fields.
Recenzijos
This volume is an essential resource for those curious about ancient readers and the complex process of composing and writing texts in antiquity. The contributors write thoughtfully about the social, political and cultural factors that went into the development and reception of ancient literary traditions. * Brian Rainey, Lecturer in Biblical Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA *
Daugiau informacijos
Examines textual production and reading in the ancient Mediterranean from a cross-disciplinary and social-historical perspective.
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1 Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean: An Introduction |
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2 The Social Stratification of Scribes and Readers in Greco-Roman Judaism |
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3 Aspects of Scripturality in the Community Rule: A Key to the History of Qumran Literature |
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4 The Making of the Theme of Immortality in the Wisdom of Solomon |
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5 Bookish Circles?: The Move Toward the Use of Written Texts in Rabbinic Oral Culture |
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6 Sympotic Learning: Symposia Literature and Cultural Education |
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7 Teaching and Learning in Philosophical Schools of the Second Century AD: Arrian's Epictetus and Aulus Gellius's Calvenus Taurus |
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8 The Lone Genius and the Docile Literati: How Bookish Were Paul's Churches? |
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9 Reading the New Testament in the Context of Other Texts: A Relevance Theory Perspective |
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10 Divine Dissimulation and the Apostolic Visions of Acts |
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11 Scriptural Literacy within the Corinthian Church: From the Corinthian Correspondence to 1 Clement |
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12 Libraries, Special Libraries, and John of Patmos |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index of References |
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Jonathan D.H. Norton is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Director of the Heythrop Centre for Textual Studies, Heythrop College, University of London, UK.
Garrick V. Allen is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK.
Lindsey A. Askin is Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.
