Material Aspects Of Letter Writing In The Graeco Roman World

Author : Antonia Sarri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 396 pages
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Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110426953

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Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World by Antonia Sarri Pdf

Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.

Author : Antonia Sarri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110423488

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Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World by Antonia Sarri Pdf

Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Matthew Brook O'Donnell,Wendy Porter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666747218

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Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Volume 17 by Stanley E. Porter,Matthew Brook O'Donnell,Wendy Porter Pdf

Volume 17, 2020 This is the seventeenth volume of the hard-copy edition of a journal that has been published online (www.jgrchj.net) since 2000. As they appear, the hard-copy editions replace the online materials. The scope of JGRChJ is the texts, language and cultures of the Greco-Roman world of early Christianity and Judaism. The papers published in JGRChJ are designed to pay special attention to the larger picture of politics, culture, religion and language, engaging as well with modern theoretical approaches.

Author : Robyn Faith Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108835305

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The Origins of Early Christian Literature by Robyn Faith Walsh Pdf

The Synoptic gospels were written by elites educated in Greco-Roman literature, not exclusively by and for early Christian communities.

Author : Stanley Kent Stowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:50479608

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Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Stanley Kent Stowers Pdf

Author : Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang,Anthony Grafton,Glenn Warren Most
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110698756

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Impagination – Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication by Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang,Anthony Grafton,Glenn Warren Most Pdf

This volume is the first comparative history that studies the practice of impagination across different ages and civilizations. By impagination we mean the act of placing and arranging spatially textual and other information onto a material bearer that could be made of a variety of materials (papyrus, bamboo slips, palm leaf, parchment, paper, and the computer screen). This volume investigates three levels of impagination: what is the page or other unit of the material bearer, what is written or printed on it, and how is writing or print placed on it. It also examines the interrelations of two or all three of these levels. Collectively it examines the material and materiality of the page, the variety of imprints, cultural and historical conventions for impagination, interlinguistic encounters, the control of editors, scribes, publishers and readers over the page, inheritance, borrowing and innovation, economics, aesthetics and socialities of imprints and impagination, and the relationship of impagination to philology. This volume supplements studies on mise en page and layout – an important subject of codicology – first by including non-codex writings, second by taking a closer look at the page or other unit than at the codex (or book), and third by its aspiration to adopt a globally comparative approach. This volume brings together for comparison vast geographical realms of learning, including Europe, China, Tibet, Korea, Japan and the Near Eastern and European communities in which the Hebrew Bible was transmitted. This comparison is significant, for Europe, China, and India all developed great traditions of learning which came into intensive contact. The contributions to this volume are firmly rooted in local cultures and together address global, comparative themes that are significant for multiple disciplines, such as intellectual and cultural history of knowledge (both humanistic and scientific), global history, literary and media studies, aesthetics, and studies of material culture, among other fields.

Author : Ryan S. Schellenberg,Heidi Wendt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567691996

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T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul by Ryan S. Schellenberg,Heidi Wendt Pdf

The T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul gathers leading voices on various aspects of Paul's biography into a thorough reconsideration of him as a historical figure. The contributors show how recent trends in Pauline scholarship have invited new questions about a variety of topics, including his social location, his mode of subsistence, his cultural formation, his place within Judaism, his religious experience and practice, and his affinities with other religious actors of the Roman world. Through careful attention to biographical detail, social context, and historical method, it seeks to describe him as a contextually plausible social actor. The volume is structured in three parts. Part One introduces sources, methods, and historiographical approaches, surveying the foundational texts for Paul and the early Pauline tradition. Part Two examines key biographical questions pertaining to Paul's bodily comportment, the material aspects of his career, and his religious activities. Part Three reconstructs the biographical portraits of Paul that emerge from the letters associated with him, presenting a series of “micro-biographies” pieced together by leading Pauline scholars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004537804

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The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture by Anonim Pdf

This book is a collection of cutting-edge essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls as part of ancient Mediterranean media culture, featuring interdisciplinary feedback from scholars in New Testament studies and Classics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004379435

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The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores the significance of the physical materials and contexts of inscribed texts in Greek and Roman antiquity and their performative roles in ancient society from an anthropological and historical perspective (7th century B.C.E. to 4th century C.E.).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004526525

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Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

Documents such as papyri and inscriptions are essential to our knowledge of ancient history in a broad sense. This volume turns the attention to the texts themselves, and explores in an interdisciplinary way how people communicated with each other in antiquity.

Author : Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne,Scott Jared DiGiulio,Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110791921

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Documentality by Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne,Scott Jared DiGiulio,Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin Pdf

This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document. Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may (mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the "mentality" of documentation in this volume advances beyond standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004537972

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Studies On The Paratextual Features Of Early New Testament Manuscripts by Anonim Pdf

Most studies of ancient New Testament manuscripts focus on individual readings and textual variants. This book, however, draws attention to, and attempts to advance, study of the textual and paratextual features of New Testament manuscripts. After defining paratext, the contributors discuss key manuscript characteristics, including headings, introductions, marginal comments, colophons, layout features such as margins, columns, spacing, and reading aids such as segmentation, paragraphos, ekthesis, coronis, and rubrication. The goal of this book is to explore how textual criticism goes beyond individual readings and includes studying the history of texts and their perceivable features.

Author : Georgios K. Giannakis,Panagiotis Filos,Emilio Crespo,Jesús de la Villa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111272887

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Classical Philology and Linguistics by Georgios K. Giannakis,Panagiotis Filos,Emilio Crespo,Jesús de la Villa Pdf

There is a long-standing debate over the relation of historical linguistics and classical philology, especially within the purview of the renewed interest in it during the last decades and the recent trends that characterize philological and linguistic studies. Ever since its appearance in the nineteenth century, the history of this debate testifies to a turbulent coexistence and fertile collaboration of the two disciplines, but at times also moving along centrifugal paths. The essays in this volume address this debate and cover various aspects of linguistic and philological research of Greek and Latin, moving in the middle ground where language, linguistics and philology crosscut and cross-fertilize each other highlighting the application of linguistic theory to the study of classical texts and drawing on fields such as syntactic theory and pragmatics, historical semantics and the lexicon, reconstruction and etymology, dialectology, editorial practices, the use of corpora, and other interdisciplinary approaches that function as hinges between philology and linguistics.

Author : Raquel Martin Hernandez
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614910824

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Materiality of Greek and Roman Curse Tablets by Raquel Martin Hernandez Pdf

The study of ancient curse tablets (defixiones or defixionum tabellae) throughout the twentieth century was based almost exclusively on the texts they contained, leaving aside, as less interesting, the analysis of the materiality of the magical artifacts on which the texts were written. The curse tablets, which were inscribed and subsequently deposited during rituals for aggressive purposes, present important material characteristics and states of preservation that deserve to be part of the analysis to which they are normally subjected. This volume contains essays on important aspects related to the materiality of lead tablets: conservation and restoration, multispectral photography, computational image processing, and paleographic analysis. The material approach to the study of the tablets in recent years is put in context in an epilogue.

Author : Mattias Brand,Eline Scheerlinck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000735765

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Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri by Mattias Brand,Eline Scheerlinck Pdf

This volume provides novel social-scientific and historical approaches to religious identifications in late antique (3rd–12th century) Egyptian papyri, bridging the gap between two academic fields that have been infrequently in full conversation: papyrology and the study of religion. Through eleven in-depth case studies of Christian, Islamic, “pagan,” Jewish, Manichaean, and Hermetic texts and objects, this book offers new interpretations on markers of religious identity in papyrus documents written in Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. Using papyri as a window into the lives of ordinary believers, it explores their religious behavior and choices in everyday life. Three valuable perspectives are outlined and explored in these documents: a critical reflection on the concept of identity and the role of religious groups, a situational reading of religious repertoire and symbols, and a focus on speech acts as performative and efficacious utterances. Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri offers a wide scope and comparative approach to this topic, suitable for students and scholars of late antiquity and Egypt, as well as those interested in late antique religion. A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.