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Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman) as case studies. It focuses on canonisation as a form of cultural formation, asking why and how canonisation works in this particular way and explaining the importance of the first millennium BCE for these question and vice versa. As a result of this focus, notions like anchoring, cultural memory, embedding and innovation play an important role throughout the book.

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Author:   Damien Agut-Labordère ,  Miguel John Versluys
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   03
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9789004520257

ISBN 10:   9004520252
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   22 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Canon Creation/Destruction and Cultural Formation: Authority, Reception, Canonicity, Marginality  John K. Papadopoulos 2 Mémoire volontaire? Canonisation as Cultural Innovation in Antiquity  Miguel John Versluys Part 2: Case Studies 3 “The Tablets I Spoke about Are Good to Preserve until Far-off Days”: An Overview on the Creation and Evolution of Canons in Babylonia and Assyria from the Middle Babylonian Period until the End of Cuneiform Sources  Marie Young 4 Inserting or Ruminating: How Demotic Became Canonic  Damien Agut-Labordère 5 Creation or Confirmation of the Canon? The Measures of Lycurgus and the Selection of Athenian Tragedy in Antiquity  André Lardinois 6 How Canonization Transformed Greek Tragedy  William Marx 7 Fixer une mémoire observations méthodologiques, philologiques et historiques sur la clotûre du canon de la bible Hébraïque In memoriam Philip R. Davies (1945-2018)  Hervé Gonzalez 8 Challenging the Canon of the Ten Attic Orators. From kanôn to Canon  Casper C. de Jonge 9 L’Arétalogie d’Isis : biographie d’un texte canonique  Laurent Bricault 10 Coming Home: Varro’s Antiquitates rerum divinarum and the Canonisation of Roman Religion  Alessandra Rolle Part 3: Conclusion 11 What Becomes of the Uncanonical?  Greg Woolf Index

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Miguel John Versluys, Ph.D. (2001), Leiden University, is Professor of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at that university. He has published widely on the cultural dynamics of Afro-Eurasia in Antiquity, including Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World. Nemrud Dağ and Commagene under Antiochos I (CUP 2017) Damien Agut-Labordère, Ph.D. (2005), Centre national de la recherche scientifique, is Chargé de recherche in ArScAn research team based in Nanterre. He has published monographs and articles on Ancient Egyptian Literature and, in parallel, on Egypt during the Persian Achaemenid period. As specialist of the Demotic script, he is also involved in several archaeological missions in Egypt, in the Western Desert. Contributors are: Damien Agut-Labordère, Laurent Bricault, Hervé Gonzalez, Casper C. de Jonge, André Lardinois, William Marx, John K. Papadopoulos, Alessandra Rolle, Miguel John Versluys, Greg Woolf, Marie Young.

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