Canonical texts and scholarly practices: a global comparative approach
In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Comparison of religions
/ Religious literature
/ Canon
/ Text revision
/ Scholar
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Collection of essays
B Criticism, Textual B Transmission of texts B Canon (Literature) |
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| Summary: | In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. This volume shows how much is learned when historians of scholarship, like contemporary historians of science, focus on earlier scholars' practices, and when Western scholarly traditions are treated as part of a much larger, cross-cultural inquiry How to do things with texts: an introduction Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most -- 1. Reliable books: Islamic law, canonization, and manuscripts in the Ottoman Empire (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) / Guy Burak (New York University) -- 2. Obscurity / Ineke Sluiter (University of Leiden) -- 3. Allegoresis and etymology / Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/University of Chicago) -- 4. Classifying the Rigveda on the basis of ritual usage: the deity-of-the-formula system / Paolo Visigalli (University of Munich) -- 5. Maryadam Ullanghya: The boundaries of interpretation in Early Modern India / Christopher Minkowski (University of Oxford) -- 6. Making sense of Suetonius in the Twelfth Century / Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University) -- 7. From Philology to Philosophy: Zhu Xi as a reader-annotator / Lianbin Dai (Harvard University) -- 8. Gods on clay: Ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions / Aaron Tugendhaft (University of Chicago) -- 9. An unknown Medieval Coptic Hebraism? On a momentous junction of Jewish and Coptic biblical studies / Ronny Vollandt (Free University of Berlin) -- 10. Picturing as practice: placing a square above a square in the Central Middle Ages / Megan McNamee (University of Michigan) -- 11. Inimitable sources: canonical texts and rhetorical theory in the Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew Traditions / Filippomaria Pontani (University of Venice) -- 12. Excerpts versus fragments: deconstructions and reconstitutions of the Excerpta Constantiniana / András Németh (Vatican Apostolic Library) -- 13. Johann Buxtorf makes a notebook / Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (University of Oxford) -- 14. World bibliographies: libraries and the reorganization of knowledge in Late Renaissance Europe / Paola Molino (University of Vienna) |
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| ISBN: | 1316226727 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316226728 |