Erscheinungsformen und Handhabungen Heiliger Schriften
By: herausgegeben von Joachim Friedrich Quack und Daniela Christina Luft
Contributors: Internationales Wissenschaftsforum
Series: Materiale Textkulturen -- Band 5; Materiale Textkulturen -- Bd. 5.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9783110371246; 9783110371277; 9783110412598
Subjects: Material culture; Sacred books; History and criticism; Congresses; Religious aspects
Description: This study focuses on Holy Scriptures as material objects. What are the contexts for the appearances and the usages of these objects? Is there a difference between Holy Scriptures and other objects, and is it inevitably their sacred content that renders them holy? Interdisciplinary perspectives offer new incentives for understanding the material phenomenon of the 'Holy Scriptures'.--
Notes: Revised papers presented at a symposium held on Nov. 25-27, 2011, and sponsored by the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum in Heidelberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.