Material Aspects Of Reading In Ancient And Medieval Cultures

Author : Anna Krauß,Jonas Leipziger,Friederike Schücking-Jungblut
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110639247

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Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures by Anna Krauß,Jonas Leipziger,Friederike Schücking-Jungblut Pdf

This publication seeks to endeavour the relationship between material artefacts and reading practices in ancient and medieval cultures. While the acts of reception of written artefacts in former times are irretrievably lost, some of the involved artefacts are preserved and might comprise hints to the ancient reading practices. In form of case studies, the contributions to this volume examine various forms of written artefacts as to their implications on modes of reading. Analyzing different Qumran scrolls, codices, Tefillin, Mezuzot, magical texts, tablets, bricks, and statues as well as meta-textual and iconographic aspects, the articles inquire the possibilities of how to correlate material aspects to assumed modes of reception and practices of reading. The contributions stem from Egyptology, Papyrology, Qumran Studies, Biblical Studies, Jewish Studies, Ancient Christianity, and Islamic Studies. In total, this volume contributes to the research on practices of reception in times past and demonstrates the potential hidden in text-bearing artefacts.

Author : Anna Krauß,Jonas Leipziger,Friederike Schücking-Jungblut
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110636031

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Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures by Anna Krauß,Jonas Leipziger,Friederike Schücking-Jungblut Pdf

This publication seeks to endeavour the relationship between material artefacts and reading practices in ancient and medieval cultures. While the acts of reception of written artefacts in former times are irretrievably lost, some of the involved artefacts are preserved and might comprise hints to the ancient reading practices. In form of case studies, the contributions to this volume examine various forms of written artefacts as to their implications on modes of reading. Analyzing different Qumran scrolls, codices, Tefillin, Mezuzot, magical texts, tablets, bricks, and statues as well as meta-textual and iconographic aspects, the articles inquire the possibilities of how to correlate material aspects to assumed modes of reception and practices of reading. The contributions stem from Egyptology, Papyrology, Qumran Studies, Biblical Studies, Jewish Studies, Ancient Christianity, and Islamic Studies. In total, this volume contributes to the research on practices of reception in times past and demonstrates the potential hidden in text-bearing artefacts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009100588

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Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England by Daniel Wakelin Pdf

Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text into pages or worried that it would harm reading; abandoned annotations to poetry, focusing on the poem itself; and copied English poems meticulously, in reverence for an abstract idea of the text. Scribes' interest in immaterial ideas and texts suggests their subtle thinking as craftspeople, in ways that contrast and extend current interpretations of late medieval literary culture, 'material texts' and the power of materials. For students, researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes.

Author : Jen Thum,Carl Walsh,Lissette M. Jiménez,Lisa Saladino Haney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003850618

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Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums by Jen Thum,Carl Walsh,Lissette M. Jiménez,Lisa Saladino Haney Pdf

Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice explores what best practices in museum pedagogy look like when working with ancient Egyptian material culture. The contributions within the volume reflect the breadth and collaborative nature of museum learning. They are written by Egyptologists, teachers, curators, museum educators, artists, and community partners working in a variety of institutions around the world—from public, children’s, and university museums, to classrooms and the virtual environment—who bring a broad scope of expertise to the conversation and offer inspiration for tackling a diverse range of challenges. Contributors foreground their first-hand experiences, pedagogical justifications, and reflective teaching practices, offering practical examples of ethical and equitable teaching with ancient Egyptian artifacts. Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums serves as a resource for teaching with Egyptian collections at any museum, and at any level. It will also be of great interest to academics and students who are engaged in the study of museums, ancient Egypt, anthropology, and education.

Author : Katherine Storm Hindley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Anglo-Norman literature
ISBN : 9780226825335

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Textual Magic by Katherine Storm Hindley Pdf

"Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often resorted to the use of spoken or written charms to ensure health or fend off danger. Here Hindley draws on an unprecedented archive, based on her own extensive research, and the result is an original sampling of more than a thousand charms from medieval England, more than twice the number gathered, transcribed, and edited in previous studies, including many texts still unknown to specialists on this topic. Focusing on charms from the so-called fallow period (1100-1350) of English history, and on previously unremarked texts in Latin, Anglo-Norman, French, and English, Hindley addresses important questions about how people thought about language, belief, and power, while also injecting a bit of fun into the mix. She describes 700 years of the dynamic, shifting cultural landscape, where multiple languages, invented alphabets, and modes of transmission gained and lost their protective and healing power. Where previous scholarship has bemoaned a lack of continuity in the English charm tradition, Hindley finds surprising links between languages and eras, all without losing sight of the extraordinary variety of the medieval charm tradition: a continuous, deeply rooted part of the English Middle Ages. Textual Magic will be important reading for historians and manuscript studies scholars, and for students from various disciplines in medieval English culture wanting to learn about the many weird and wonderful types and uses of charms during this period. And Hindley's new findings will appeal to a wide number of specialists, including those in literary and religious studies, the medical humanities, and the history of magic. The book should also find a wider general audience, always eager to read about magic and charms"--

Author : Alaya Palamidis,Corinne Bonnet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111326511

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What's in a Divine Name? by Alaya Palamidis,Corinne Bonnet Pdf

Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.

Author : Paul Linjamaa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009441469

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The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers by Paul Linjamaa Pdf

Paul Linjamaa's study explores the way in which fourth century Egyptian monks produced, read and studied the Nag Hammadi Codices.

Author : Monika Amsler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111010311

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Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity by Monika Amsler Pdf

Social Studies of the sciences have long analyzed and exposed the constructed nature of knowledge. Pioneering studies of knowledge production in laboratories (e.g., Latour/Woolgar 1979; Knorr-Cetina 1981) have identified factors that affect processes that lead to the generation of scientific data and their subsequent interpretation, such as money, training and curriculum, location and infrastructure, biography-based knowledge and talent, and chance. More recent theories of knowledge construction have further identified different forms of knowledge, such as tacit, intuitive, explicit, personal, and social knowledge. These theoretical frameworks and critical terms can help reveal and clarify the processes that led to ancient data gathering, information and knowledge production. The contributors use late-antique hermeneutical associations as means to explore intuitive or even tacit knowledge; they appreciate mistakes as a platform to study the value of personal knowledge and its premises; they think about rows and tables, letter exchanges, and schools as platforms of distributed cognition; they consider walls as venues for social knowledge production; and rethink the value of social knowledge in scholarly genealogies--then and now.

Author : Bruce W. Longenecker,David E. Wilhite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108671293

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The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity by Bruce W. Longenecker,David E. Wilhite Pdf

The first three hundred years of the common era witnessed critical developments that would become foundational for Christianity itself, as well as for the societies and later history that emerged thereafter. The concept of 'ancient Christianity,' however, along with the content that the category represents, has raised much debate. This is, in part, because within this category lie multiple forms of devotion to Jesus Christ, multiple phenomena, and multiple permutations in the formative period of Christian history. Within those multiples lie numerous contests, as varieties of Christian identity laid claim to authority and authenticity in different ways. The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity addresses these contested areas with both nuance and clarity by reviewing, synthesizing, and critically engaging recent scholarly developments. The 27 thematic chapters, specially commissioned for this volume from an international team of scholars, also offer constructive ways forward for future research.

Author : Jonathan Ben-Dov,Asaf Gayer,Eshbal Ratzon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004473058

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Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls by Jonathan Ben-Dov,Asaf Gayer,Eshbal Ratzon Pdf

Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as on other ancient texts. The present book augments these methods to a full-scale protocol, while adapting them to a new computerized environment. Fundamental methodological issues are illuminated as part of the discussion, and the potential margin of error is provided on an empirical basis, as practiced in the sciences. The method is then exemplified with regard to the scroll 4Q418a, a copy of a wisdom composition from Qumran.

Author : Monika Amsler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009297332

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The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture by Monika Amsler Pdf

A new theory of the Talmud's formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.

Author : Alma Brodersen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161615993

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The Beginning of the Biblical Canon and Ben Sira by Alma Brodersen Pdf

Author : Nicholas A. Elder
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467461030

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Gospel Media by Nicholas A. Elder Pdf

Contextualizing the gospels in ancient Greco-Roman media practices New Testament scholars have often relied on outdated assumptions for understanding the composition and spread of the gospels. Yet this scholarship has spread myths or misconceptions about how the ancients read, wrote, and published texts. Nicholas Elder updates our knowledge of the gospels’ media contexts in this myth-busting academic study. Carefully combing through Greco-Roman primary sources, he exposes what we take for granted about ancient reading cultures and offers new and better ways to understand the gospels. These myths include claims that ancients never read silently and that the canonical gospels were all the same type of text. Elder then sheds light on how early Christian communities used the gospels in diverse ways. Scholars of the gospels and classics alike will find Gospel Media an essential companion in understanding ancient media cultures.

Author : Chip Hardy,Matthew McAffee
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462776740

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Going Deeper with Biblical Hebrew by Chip Hardy,Matthew McAffee Pdf

Learning any language is no small task, not least one that sounds as unusual as Hebrew does to most English speakers’ ears. Going Deeper with Biblical Hebrew primarily aims to equip second-year grammar students of biblical Hebrew to read the Hebrew Scriptures. Using a variety of linguistic approaches, H. H. Hardy II and Matthew McAffee offer a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook for professors and students.