RT Book
T1 Unruly books: rethinking ancient and academic imaginations of religious texts
A2 Brownsmith, Esther
A2 Lied, Liv Ingeborg 1974-
A2 Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland 1971-
LA English
PP London New York
PB T&T Clark
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1925554198
AB This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as "sticky" objects, and they examine the story of what such books signified to the people who wrote, read, discussed, yearned for, or even prohibited them. The books examined are those of the first millennium of the Common Era, and the writings of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and related traditions. In particular, the contributors examine the bounty of books within this period that are hard to pin down, whether extant, lost, or imagined-books that challenge modern scholars to reconceptualize our notions of books (biblical or otherwise), religion, manuscript culture, and intellectual history. Through the critical analysis presented in this volume, the contributors negotiate the diverse stories told by unruly books and show that by listening to the stories that books tell, we learn more about the worlds that imagined and discussed them
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-263) and indexes
CN BL71
SN 978-0-567-71568-5
SN 0-567-71568-X
K1 Sacred Books : History and criticism
K1 Religious Literature : History and criticism
K1 Christianity : Sacred books
K1 Islam : Sacred books
K1 Judaism : Texts
K1 Lost books
K1 Lost literature
K1 Prohibited books
K1 Littérature religieuse - Histoire et critique
K1 Christianisme - Livres sacrés
K1 Islam - Livres sacrés
K1 Judaïsme - Textes
K1 Livres perdus
K1 Œuvres perdues (Littérature)
K1 Livres prohibés