Unruly Books: Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Section I Unruliness in Ancient Jewish Texts -- 1 Gender and Imagined Authorship of Ancient Jewish Texts -- 2 Imagined and Unruly: The Letter of Aristeas and the Septuagint -- 3 Why D...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2025
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Further subjects: | B
Christianity
Sacred books
B Islam Sacred books B Littérature religieuse - Histoire et critique B Sacred Books History and criticism B Judaism Texts B Lost books B Judaïsme - Textes B Livres perdus B Religious Literature History and criticism B Lost literature B Christianisme - Livres sacrés B Livres prohibés B Œuvres perdues (Littérature) B Prohibited books B Islam - Livres sacrés |
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| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Section I Unruliness in Ancient Jewish Texts -- 1 Gender and Imagined Authorship of Ancient Jewish Texts -- 2 Imagined and Unruly: The Letter of Aristeas and the Septuagint -- 3 Why Didn't Biblical Books Have Titles? A Study of Ancient Hebrew Literary Values -- Section II Unruliness in Early Christian Texts -- 4 The Letter to the Laodiceans: A "Ghost of a Pauline Epistle"? -- 5 Unruly Scriptures in the Greek Clementines -- 6 Failed Gospels and Disciplinary Knowledge in Origen's Homily on Luke 1 -- Section III Unruliness in Islamic Texts -- 7 Unruly Books in the Qur'an -- 8 Writing the Self through Listing Others: Qāḍī ʻIyāḍ's Biobibliographical Catalogue al-Ghunya -- Section IV Unruly Receptions -- 9 Hermetic Books Known Only by Title: Scrolls, Stelae, and the Egyptian Total Library -- 10 The Canon and the Anti-Canon: Unruly Books and the Booklist Genre in Slavia Orthodoxa -- 11 Books Known Only by Title in Book Lists: The Unruly Entries of the Gelasian Decree and Abdisho of Nisibis's Catalogue of the Books of the Church -- 12 Gospel Thrillers: Unruly Knowledge in a Fictional Archive -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index of References -- Index of Authors and Subjects. This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as "sticky" objects, and they examine the story of what such books signified to the people who wrote, read, discussed, yearned for, or even prohibited them. The books examined are those of the first millennium of the Common Era, and the writings of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and related traditions. In particular, the contributors examine the bounty of books within this period that are hard to pin down, whether extant, lost, or imagined-books that challenge modern scholars to reconceptualize our notions of books (biblical or otherwise), religion, manuscript culture, and intellectual history. Through the critical analysis presented in this volume, the contributors negotiate the diverse stories told by unruly books and show that by listening to the stories that books tell, we learn more about the worlds that imagined and discussed them |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-567-71569-2 |