Unruly Books

Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts

Dr Esther Brownsmith, Dr Liv Ingeborg Lied, Dr Marianne Bjelland Kartzow (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2025
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
9780567715685 (ISBN)

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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 analyses 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.

Esther Brownsmith is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Dayton, USA. Liv Ingeborg Lied is Professor of the Study of Religion at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.

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Introduction to UnrulyBooks
Esther Brownsmith, University of Dayton Marianne Bjel land Kartzow, University o fOslo
Liv Ingeborg Lied, M FNorwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

Section I :Unruliness in Early Jewish Texts

Chapter 1. Gender and Imagined Authorship of Ancient Jewish Texts
Hanna Tervanotko ,McMaster University

Chapter 2. Imagined and Unruly: The Letter of Aristeas and the Septuagint
Benjamin Wright, Lehigh University

Chapter 3. Why Didn’t Biblical Books Have Titles? A Study in Ancient Hebrew Literary Values
Seth Sanders, University of California, Davis

Section II: Unruliness in Early Christian Texts

Chapter 4. The Letter to the Laodiceans: A“ Ghost of a Pauline Epistle?”
Vemund Blomkvist, University of Oslo

Chapter 5. Unruly Scriptures in the Greek Clementines
Ismo Dunderberg, University o fHelsinki

Chapter 6. Failed Gospels and Disciplinary Knowledge in Origen’s Homily on Luke 1
Jeremiah Coogan, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University

Section III: Unruliness in Islamic Texts

Chapter 7. Unruly Books in the Qur’an
Matthew P.Monger, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

Chapter 8. Writing the self through listing others: Qa?i ?Iya?’s biobibliographical catalogue al-Ghunya
Nora Eggen, University of Oslo

Section IV: Unruly Receptions

Chapter 9. Hermetic Books Known Only by Title: Scrolls, Stelae, and the Egyptian Total Library
Christian Bull, University of Bergen

Chapter 10. The Canon and the Anti-Canon: Unruly Books and the Booklist Genre in Slavia Orthodoxa
SlavomírCéplö, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Chapter 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
Rebecca Solevåg, VID Specialized University, Stavanger
Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

Chapter 12. Gospel Thrillers: Unruly Knowledge in a Fictional Archive
Andrew Jacobs, Harvard Divinity School

ListofContributors
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2025
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 238 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9780567715685 / 9780567715685
Zustand	Neuware