Books and readers in the premodern world
Subtitle: essays in honor of Harry Gamble
By: edited by Karl Shuve
Series: Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series -- number 12; Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series -- no. 12.
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781628372236; 9780884143291
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Sacred books; History and criticism; Judaism; Christianity; Islam; Books and reading; Religious aspects; Material culture; 11.09 systematic religious studies: other; 17.76 history of world literature; Antike; Buch; Leser
Description: This book examines the role books played in shaping the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions in the ancient world. Each tradition is associated with certain holy books--the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, or the Qur'an. In this collection of essays the contributors consider how new technologies, new materials, and new cultural encounters allowed these books to spread, to become authoritative, and to profoundly shape three global religions. Experienced scholars from a variety of academic fields, consider what it means to treat books as material objects rather than as repositories for stories and texts. -- !c From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Karl Shuve -- Part 1. The materiality of books.; title: Papyrus beyond writing : Early Christian texts and ancient natural history  -- C. M. Chin; title: The transformative role of paper in the literary culture of the Islamic lands  -- Jonathan M. Bloom; title: From the oral to the written : Qur'an manuscripts from the early centuries of Islam  -- Sheila Blair; title: From ancient to medieval books: on reading and illuminating manuscripts in the seventh century  -- Lawrence Nees -- Part 2. Literary cultures.; title: Books and private readers in early Christian Oxyrhynchus : "a spiritual meadow and a garden of delight"  -- AnneMarie Luijendijk; title: The Bible in the Qur'an, the Qur'an in the Bible : scriptural intertextuality in the language of Islam  -- Sidney H. Griffith; title: Unreliable books : debates over falsified scriptures at the frontier between Judaism and Christianity -- Karl Shuve.