Scribes And Their Remains

Author : Craig A. Evans,Jeremiah J. Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567688057

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Scribes and Their Remains by Craig A. Evans,Jeremiah J. Johnston Pdf

Scribes and Their Remains begins with an introductory essay by Stanley Porter which addresses the principal theme of the book: the text as artifact. The rest of the volume is then split into two major sections. In the first, five studies appear on the theme of 'Scribes, Letters, and Literacy.' In the first of these Craig A. Evans offers a lengthy piece that argues that the archaeological, artifactual, and historical evidence suggests that New Testament autographs and first copies may well have remained in circulation for one century or more, having the effect of stabilizing the text. Other pieces in the section address literacy, orality and paleography of early Christian papyri. In the second section there are five pieces on 'Writing, Reading, and Abbreviating Christian Scripture.' These range across numerous topics, including an examination of the stauros (cross) as a nomen sacrum.

Author : Craig A. Evans,Jeremiah J. Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567693457

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Scribes and Their Remains by Craig A. Evans,Jeremiah J. Johnston Pdf

Scribes and Their Remains begins with an introductory essay by Stanley Porter which addresses the principal theme of the book: the text as artifact. The rest of the volume is then split into two major sections. In the first, five studies appear on the theme of 'Scribes, Letters, and Literacy.' In the first of these Craig A. Evans offers a lengthy piece that argues that the archaeological, artifactual, and historical evidence suggests that New Testament autographs and first copies may well have remained in circulation for one century or more, having the effect of stabilizing the text. Other pieces in the section address literacy, orality and paleography of early Christian papyri. In the second section there are five pieces on 'Writing, Reading, and Abbreviating Christian Scripture.' These range across numerous topics, including an examination of the stauros (cross) as a nomen sacrum.

Author : Jane Alden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199700738

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Songs, Scribes, and Society by Jane Alden Pdf

A new kind of songbook emerged in the later fifteenth century: personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated. Five closely related chansonniers, copied in the Loire Valley region of central France c. 1465-c. 1475, are the earliest surviving examples of this new genre. The Loire Valley Chansonniers preserve the music of such renowned composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busnoys. But their importance as musical sources has overshadowed the significance of these manuscripts as artifacts in their own right. This book places the physical objects at center, investigating the means by which they were produced and the broader culture in which they circulated. Jane Alden performs a codicological autopsy upon the manuscripts and reveals the hitherto unrecognized role of scribes in shaping the transmission and reception of the chanson repertory. Alden also challenges the long-held belief that the Loire Valley Chansonniers were intended for royal or noble patrons. Instead, she argues that a rising class of bureaucrats--notaries, secretaries, and other court officials--commissioned these exquisite objects. Active as writers and participants in poetry competitions, these individuals may even have written some of the chansons' texts. The unique integration of image, text, and music found in chansonniers extends their appeal to a broad readership. But for the nineteenth-century scholars who rediscovered these manuscripts, the larger literary and visual resonances were not of primary interest. Alden documents the tangle of motivations--national identity, populist politics, and the rise of the musical masterwork--that informed the earliest writings on these books. Only now is their multifaceted structure the inspiration for a new generation of readers.

Author : Eric A. Seibert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567544384

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Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative by Eric A. Seibert Pdf

Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative considers 1 Kgs 1-11 through the optics of propaganda and subversion with primary attention given to subversive readings of portions of the Solomonic narrative. Seibert explores the social context in which scribal subversion was not only possible but perhaps even necessary and examines texts that covertly undermine the legitimacy or the legacy of Solomon. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, Seibert develops definitions of propaganda and subversion and notes other studies which have understood certain biblical texts to function in these ways. Primary consideration is given to developing a theory of subversive scribal activity in this section of the book. An important distinction is made between "submissive scribes," individuals who wrote what they were told, and "subversive scribes," individuals who did otherwise. Since many scribes were writing for the very people who paid them, those wanting to engage in subversive literary activity had to do so carefully, and to a certain extent covertly, lest they be detected and exposed. Yet their critique could not be so obscure that none could detect it. There needed to be enough clues to allow like-minded scribes to read the text and appreciate the critique, but not so many that opponents could charge such scribes with sedition. In the second part of the book, Seibert applies this theory of scribal subversion to various passages in 1 Kgs 1-11. An extended discussion is given to 1 Kgs 1-2 with the remainder of the Solomonic narrative being treated more episodically. The focus is on passages which look suspiciously like the work of a subversive scribe and/or which have subversive potential. It is argued that scribes could-and sometimes did-intentionally encode a critique of the king/kingship in the text and that one of the most effective ways they accomplished this was by cloaking scribal subversion in the guise of propaganda.

Author : Christine Schams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567299017

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Jewish Scribes in the Second-Temple Period by Christine Schams Pdf

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series, 291

Author : Sidnie White Crawford
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467456586

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Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran by Sidnie White Crawford Pdf

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls altered our understanding of the development of the biblical text, the history and literature of Second Temple Judaism, and the thought of the early Christian community. Questions continue to surround the relationship between the caves in which the scrolls were found and the nearby settlement at Khirbet Qumran. In Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford combines the conclusions of the first generation of scrolls scholars that have withstood the test of time, new insights that have emerged since the complete publication of the scrolls corpus, and the much more complete archaeological picture that we now have of Khirbet Qumran. She creates a new synthesis of text and archaeology that yields a convincing history of and purpose for the Qumran settlement and its associated caves.

Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426275

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Chaucer's Scribes by Lawrence Warner Pdf

Important intervention in Middle English studies that challenges widely accepted narratives on the identities of Chaucer's scribes.

Author : Yoram Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004370043

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The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age by Yoram Cohen Pdf

This book aims to place Emar's scribal school institution within its social and historical context.

Author : Jutta Krispenz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110482430

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Scribes as Sages and Prophets by Jutta Krispenz Pdf

Scholars of the Hebrew Bible used to look at „Prophecy" and „Wisdom" as clearly distinct realms represented by antagonistic and mutually exclusive roles of their central characters: the loyal sage, the pillar of administration, on the one side and the rebellious prophet, criticizing the establishment, on the other. While the influence of wisdom thought on prophetic texts has been a topic in the scholarly debate, the complementary question of the influence of prophetic thought on wisdom texts has rarely been asked. The contributions in this volume look at both questions: They start from the assumption that texts from the Hebrew Bible and the cultures surrounding Ancient Israel all originated from a social stratum of educated scribes, who authored and transmitted these texts. It then seems plausible that wisdom texts might show similar traces of prophetic influence to those of wisdom thoughts found in prophetic texts. The essays give a multifaceted picture concerning the mutual perception of prophets and sages and thus provide a deeper understanding of both wisdom literature and prophecy.

Author : William G. Britton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532634499

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Wisdom From the Margins by William G. Britton Pdf

Henri Nouwen wisely said, "The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there." Jesus has "been there" and knows how to lead us out--but first, he just may lead us in. He meets us in the desert and does his best work in us there. We look for an easier way in vain. I myself reluctantly entered the desert and eventually received unimagined gifts there--gifts I didn't ask for, deserve, or want--gifts hidden in such painful loss that I despaired--and yet, looking back now, these "desert gifts" were the best thing that ever happened to me. I entered the desert, and years later, found my way out. It's not a new way, it was just new to me. Jewish and Christian sages had been living it for thousands of years. Somehow, in recent generations, we managed to forget it. In this collection I mean to begin to make those riches available to you. I'm hoping that like me, you'll discover something that you didn't know you wanted or needed--and something now you wouldn't give up at any price.

Author : John McClintock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3CVA

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Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature: Rh-St by John McClintock Pdf

Author : Philip Yancy Pendleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Sunday school literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858047966712

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Standard Eclectic Commentary by Philip Yancy Pendleton Pdf

Author : Mark Leuchter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696175

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Scribes and Scribalism by Mark Leuchter Pdf

This volume is a concentrated examination of the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible. Divided into discussion of three key aspects, the book begins by assessing praxis and materiality, looking at the tools and materials used by scribes, where they came from and how they worked in specific contexts. The contributors then move to observe the power and status of scribal cultures, and how scribes functioned within their broader social world. Finally, the volume offers perspectives that examine ideological issues at play in both antiquity and the modern context(s) of biblical scholarship. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that no text is produced in a void, and no writer functions without a network of resources.

Author : Niv Allon,Hana Navratilova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472583987

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Ancient Egyptian Scribes by Niv Allon,Hana Navratilova Pdf

The modern view of the ancient Egyptian world is often through the lens of a scribe: the trained, schooled, literate individual who was present at many levels of Egyptian society, from a local accountant to the highest echelons of society. And yet, despite the wealth of information the scribes left us, we know relatively little about what underpinned their world, about their mentality and about their everyday life. Tracing ten key biographies, Ancient Egyptian Scribes examines how these figures kept both the administrative life and cultural memory of Egypt running. These are the Egyptians who ran the state and formed the supposedly meritocratic system of local administration and government. Case studies look at accountants, draughtsmen, scribes with military and dynastic roles, the authors of graffiti and literati who interacted in different ways with Pharaohs and other leaders. Assuming no previous knowledge of ancient Egypt, the various roles and identities of the scribes are presented in a concise and accessible way, offering structured information on their cultural identity and self-presentation, and providing readers with an insight into the making of Egyptian written culture.

Author : David Friedrich Strauss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012735908

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The Life of Jesus by David Friedrich Strauss Pdf