Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Education, Literary Culture, and Religious Practice in the Ancient World
Release date:	July 2022
Editors:	Jonathan D. H. Norton • Garrick Allen • Lindsey A. Askin
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-26502-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > General Books > History > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > General Promotions
LSN:	1-350-26502-0
Barcode:	9781350265028

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