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Books and readers in the premodern world : essays in honor of Harry Gamble / edited by Karl Shuve.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no. 12.
- Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; number 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sacred books--History and criticism.
- Sacred books.
- Judaism.
- Christianity.
- Islam.
- Books and reading--Religious aspects.
- Books and reading.
- Material culture--Religious aspects.
- Material culture.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- This book examines the role books played in shaping the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions in the ancient world. Each tradition is associated with certain holy books--the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, or the Qur'an. In this collection of essays the contributors consider how new technologies, new materials, and new cultural encounters allowed these books to spread, to become authoritative, and to profoundly shape three global religions. Experienced scholars from a variety of academic fields, consider what it means to treat books as material objects rather than as repositories for stories and texts. -- !c From publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Karl Shuve
- Part 1. The materiality of books.
- Papyrus beyond writing : Early Christian texts and ancient natural history / C. M. Chin
- The transformative role of paper in the literary culture of the Islamic lands / Jonathan M. Bloom
- From the oral to the written : Qur'an manuscripts from the early centuries of Islam / Sheila Blair
- From ancient to medieval books: on reading and illuminating manuscripts in the seventh century / Lawrence Nees
- Part 2. Literary cultures.
- Books and private readers in early Christian Oxyrhynchus : "a spiritual meadow and a garden of delight" / AnneMarie Luijendijk
- The Bible in the Qur'an, the Qur'an in the Bible : scriptural intertextuality in the language of Islam / Sidney H. Griffith
- Unreliable books : debates over falsified scriptures at the frontier between Judaism and Christianity / Karl Shuve.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781628372236
- 1628372230
- 9780884143291
- 0884143295
- OCLC:
- 1046101962
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