Sacred words : orality, literacy, and religion / edited by A.P.M.H. Lardinois, J.H. Blok, M.G.M. van der Poel.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Lardinois, A. P. M. H.

Blok, Josine.

Poel, Marc van der.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World (8th : 2008 : Soeterbeeck, Ravenstein, Netherlands)

International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 0169-8958 332.

Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; v. 8

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 332. 0169-8958

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious literature--Congresses.

Religious literature.

Communication--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Communication.

Greece--Religion--Congresses.

Greece.

Rome--Religion--Congresses.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish, starting with the Sibylline books and the Annales Maximi of the Roman priests and culminating in the canonical gospels of the Christians. It is the aim of this volume to modify this view or, at least, to challenge it. Surveying the variety of ways in which different types of texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient Greek and Roman religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were in use for both Greek and Roman state and private religions.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / A. Lardinois , J. Blok and M. Van Der Poel

Introduction / André Lardinois , Josine Blok and Marc Van Der Poel

1. The Words Of Gods: Divine Discourse In Homer’s Iliad / Elizabeth Minchin

2. Enter The Divine: Sympotic Performance And Religious Experience / Fiona Hobden

3. Past And Present In Pindar’s Religious Poetry / Maria Pavlou

4. Euripides, The Derveni Papyrus, And The Smoke Of Many Writings / Ruth Scodel

5. Writing Sacred Laws In Archaic And Classical Crete / Michael Gagarin

6. Embedded Speech In The Attic Leges Sacrae / Sarah Hitch

7. From Oath-Swearing To Entrenchment Clause: The Introduction Of Atimia-Terminology In Legal Inscriptions / Evelyn ’T Van Wout

8. ‘And You, The Demos, Made An Uproar’: Performance, Mass Audiences And Text In The Athenian Democracy / Rosalind Thomas

9. Hexametrical Incantations As Oral And Written Phenomena / Christopher Faraone

10. Oral Bricolage And Ritual Context In The Golden Tablets / Franco Ferrari

11. Greek Hymns From Performance To Stone / Mark Alonge

12. Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, And Religious Performance In The Roman Republic / Ana Rodriguez-Mayorgas

13. Homer The Prophet: Homeric Verses And Divination In The Homeromanteion / Andromache Karanika

14. Assuming The Mantle Of The Gods: ‘Unknowable Names’ And Invocations In Late Antique Theurgic Ritual / Crystal Addey

15. Plautus The Theologian / Niall W. Slater

16. Orality In Livy’s Representation Of The Divine: The Construction Of A Polyphonic Narrative / Vanessa Berger

17. Dilemmas Of Pietas In Roman Declamation / Bé Breij

18. Paul The ‘Herald’ And The ‘Teacher’: Paul’s Self-Images Within An Oral Milieu / Akio Ito

19. Divine Voice, Literary Models, And Human Authority: Peter And Paul In The Early Christian Church / James Morrison

20. Singing Together In Church: Augustine’s Psalm Against The Donatists / Vincent Hunink

Index Of Passages / A. Lardinois , J. Blok and M. Van Der Poel

Index Of Subjects / A. Lardinois , J. Blok and M. Van Der Poel.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-16113-3

9786613161130

90-04-21421-6

OCLC:

743693772

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004194120.i-415 DOI