{"product_id":"reading-writing-and-bookish-circles-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-9781350265028","title":"Reading Writing and Bookish Circles in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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 in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1.     Reading, Books, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean: An Introduction, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Norton (Heythrop College, University of London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 2.     The Social Stratification of Scribes and Readers in Greco-Roman Judaism, \u003ci\u003eLindsey A. Askin (University of Bristol, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 3.     Aspects of Scripturality in the Community Rule (S): A Key to the History of Qumran Literature\u003ci\u003e, Annette Steudel (Georg-August Universität, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e 4.     The Making of the Theme of Immortality in the Wisdom of Solomon, \u003ci\u003eEkaterina Matusova (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEberhard Karls University, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e 5.     Bookish Circles? The Move toward the Use of Written Texts in Rabbinic Oral Culture, \u003ci\u003eCatherine Hezser \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(SOAS, University of London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 6.     Sympotic Learning: Symposia Literature and Cultural Education\u003ci\u003e, Sean A. Adams (University of Glasgow, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 7.     Adult Teaching and Learning in Philosophical Schools: The Cases of Epictetus and Calvenus Taurus,\u003ci\u003e Michael Trapp (King’s College, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 8.     The Lone Genius and the Docile Literati: How Bookish Were Paul’s Churches?, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Norton (Heythrop College, University of London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 9.     Reading the New Testament in the Context of Other Texts: A Relevance Theory Perspective,\u003ci\u003e Steve Smith (University of Chichester; St Mellitus College, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e 10.  Divine Dissimulation and the Apostolic Vision of Acts,\u003ci\u003e John Moxon, (University of Roehampton, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 11.  Scriptural Literacy within the Corinthian Church: From the Corinthian Correspondence to 1 Clement,\u003ci\u003e H. H. Drake Williams, III (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Belgium and University of the Free State, South Africa)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Libraries, Special Libraries, and John of Patmos,\u003ci\u003e Garrick V. Allen, (University of Glasgow)\u003c\/i\u003e Bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019647254871,"sku":"9781350265028","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-writing-and-bookish-circles-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-9781350265028","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}