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Christian Reading - Language, Ethics, and the Order of Things (Hardcover): Blossom Stefaniw

Christian Reading - Language, Ethics, and the Order of Things (Hardcover)

Blossom Stefaniw

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Christian Reading shifts the assumption that study of the Bible must be about the content of the Bible or aimed at confessional projects of religious instruction. Blossom Stefaniw focuses on the lesson transcripts from the Tura papyri, which reveal verbatim oral classroom discourse, to show how biblical texts were used as an exhibition space for the traditional canon of general knowledge about the world. Stefaniw demonstrates that the work of Didymus the Blind in the lessons reflected in the Tura papyri was similar to that of other grammarians in late antiquity: articulating the students' place in time, their position in the world, and their connection to their heritage. But whereas other grammarians used revered texts like Homer and Menander, Didymus curated the cultural patrimony using biblical texts: namely, the Psalms and Ecclesiastes. By examining this routine epistemological and pedagogical work carried out through the Bible, Christian Reading generates a new model of the relationship of Christian scholarship to the pagan past.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2019
First published: 2019
Authors: Blossom Stefaniw
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-30061-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
Books > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > General
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LSN: 0-520-30061-0
Barcode: 9780520300613

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