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Book SynopsisCanonisation 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.
Table of ContentsForeword 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
