Rethinking 'authority' in late antiquity authorship, law, and transmission in Jewish and Christian tradition
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Authority in contemporary historiography -- The problem -- History beyond authority -- Authorship and authority -- Authority and the law -- Transmission beyond authority -- Conclusion -- 2 Reading beyond authori...
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London and New York
Routledge, Taylor&Francis Group
[2018]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge monographs in classical studies
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| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Authority in contemporary historiography -- The problem -- History beyond authority -- Authorship and authority -- Authority and the law -- Transmission beyond authority -- Conclusion -- 2 Reading beyond authority -- The authority paradigm in Seconding Sinai -- Philology beyond authority: the case of Homer -- Vitality of traditions beyond old and new philology -- The vitality of Scripture: reading with and beyond authority -- Part I Authorship and authority -- 3 Authenticity and authority: the case for dismantling a dubious correlation -- "Acta conciliorum non leguntur." -- Reading councils -- Reading acta -- The unreliability of proceedings -- The chorus at Chalcedon -- The hand of the editor -- The unreliability of proceedings -- Resistive readings and an institutionalized suspicion of documents -- Another layer of reading: Chalcedon at Constantinople -- Christos epistolographos -- A dissenting opinion -- Conclusion -- 4 Beyond attribution and authority: the case of Psalms in rabbinic hermeneutics -- Identity of author: Asaph as case-study -- Compositional circumstances of Psalmist -- Authorship and historical anchoring -- Conclusion -- 5 Correcting the gospel: putting the titles of the gospels in historical context -- Didymus Chalkenturus and the personal and city editions of The Iliad -- Galen and the correcting literary activities of Mnemon of Side -- 2 Maccabees 2:13 and Nehemiah's records -- Gospel texts and the Kat' Andra formula -- Irenaeus and "gospel authorship" -- Conclusion -- Part II Authority and the law -- 6 Glimpses from the margins: re-telling late ancient history at the edges of the law -- The apostolic past in the Didascalia Apostolorum -- Glimpses of Late Antiquity in the canonical writings of 'Abdīshō' bar Brīkhā History from the margins of the law in Syriac Christian writings -- 7 Concealing the law: the limits of legal promulgation among the rabbis of Babylonia -- Rabbinic teaching to non-rabbis: the absence of civil law -- Exclusive legal knowledge and the advantages of sages in court -- Concealing the law and judicial discretion -- Textual authority without textual transmission -- Legal flexibility: an ancient Near Eastern tradition -- Conclusion -- Part III Authority and transmission -- 8 Truth and doubt in manuscript discovery narratives -- Find stories as authority -- Find stories beyond authority -- 9 The orthodox transmission of heresy -- Irenaeus of Lyon, Against the Heresies -- Tertullian, Against the Valentinians -- Hippolytus of Rome, Refutation of All Heresies -- A provisional conclusion -- Pirating heretical texts in the defense of orthodoxy: Epiphanius of Salamis and Augustine -- Epiphanius, Aetius, and dueling editions -- Augustine as editor of Pelagius -- Conclusion -- 10 Consuming texts: women as recipients and transmitters of ancient texts -- Rabbinic texts and traditions -- The soṭah ritual, the transmission of Torah, and the consumption of biblical texts -- The transmission of the soṭah text by a woman -- Food consumption and female transmission of rabbinic knowledge -- Christian texts and traditions -- Women as readers and transmitters of written texts -- Reading as eating -- Conclusions: every corpus has a corpus -- Epilogue: Reading without authority -- Index locorum -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 226 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781351063425 9781351063418 |