Overview

By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors intentionally place Jewish, Christian, Roman, Greek and other reading circles back into their encompassing historical context, avoiding subdivisions along modern subject lines, divisions still bearing marks of cultural and ideological interests. In their examination, contributors avoid dwelling upon traditional methodological debates over orality vs. literacy and social classifications of literacy, instead turning their attention to the social-historical: groups of people, circles and networks, strata and class, scribal culture, material culture, epigraphic and papyrological evidence, functions and types of literacy and the social relationships that all of these entail. Overall, the volume contributes to an emerging and important interdisciplinary collaboration between specialists in ancient literacy, encouraging future discussion between two currently divided fields.

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Author:   Jonathan D.H. Norton (The University of London, UK) ,  Garrick Allen (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Lindsey A. Askin (University of Bristol, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350265028

ISBN 10:   1350265020
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   28 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Reading, Books, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean: An Introduction, Jonathan Norton (Heythrop College, University of London, UK) 2. The Social Stratification of Scribes and Readers in Greco-Roman Judaism, Lindsey A. Askin (University of Bristol, UK) 3. Aspects of Scripturality in the Community Rule (S): A Key to the History of Qumran Literature, Annette Steudel (Georg-August Universität, Germany) 4. The Making of the Theme of Immortality in the Wisdom of Solomon, Ekaterina Matusova (Eberhard Karls University, Germany) 5. Bookish Circles? The Move toward the Use of Written Texts in Rabbinic Oral Culture, Catherine Hezser (SOAS, University of London, UK) 6. Sympotic Learning: Symposia Literature and Cultural Education, Sean A. Adams (University of Glasgow, UK) 7. Adult Teaching and Learning in Philosophical Schools: The Cases of Epictetus and Calvenus Taurus, Michael Trapp (King’s College, UK) 8. The Lone Genius and the Docile Literati: How Bookish Were Paul’s Churches?, Jonathan Norton (Heythrop College, University of London, UK) 9. Reading the New Testament in the Context of Other Texts: A Relevance Theory Perspective, Steve Smith (University of Chichester; St Mellitus College, UK) 10. Divine Dissimulation and the Apostolic Vision of Acts, John Moxon, (University of Roehampton, UK) 11. Scriptural Literacy within the Corinthian Church: From the Corinthian Correspondence to 1 Clement, H. H. Drake Williams, III (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Belgium and University of the Free State, South Africa) 12. Libraries, Special Libraries, and John of Patmos, Garrick V. Allen, (University of Glasgow) Bibliography Index

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This volume is an essential resource for those curious about ancient readers and the complex process of composing and writing texts in antiquity. The contributors write thoughtfully about the social, political and cultural factors that went into the development and reception of ancient literary traditions. * Brian Rainey, Lecturer in Biblical Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA *

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Jonathan D.H. Norton is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Director of the Heythrop Centre for Textual Studies, Heythrop College, University of London, UK. Garrick V. Allen is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. Lindsey A. Askin is Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

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