Placing Ancient Texts

The Ritual and Rhetorical Use of Space

Mika Ahuvia, Alexander Kocar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 263 Seiten

2019
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-156376-8 (ISBN)

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In this volume, scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and late antique religion demonstrate how special attention to the ritual and rhetorical functions of space can improve modern interpretations of ancient literary, liturgical, and ritual texts. Each chapter is concerned with reconstructing the dynamic interaction between space and text. Demonstrating the pliability of the idea of space, the contributions in this volume span from Second Temple debates over Eden to Byzantine Christian hymnography. In so doing, they offer a number of answers to the seemingly simple question: What difference does space make for how modern scholars interpret ancient texts? The nine contributions in this volume are divided into the three interrelated topics of the rhetorical construction of places both earthly and cosmic, the positioning of people in religious space, and the performance of ritual texts in place.

Born 1983; BA from Rollins College; MA from the University of Michigan; PhD from Princeton University; the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Born 1984; BA from the University of Minnesota; MA from the University of Washington; PhD from Princeton University; Lecturer in the department of Religion at Princeton University.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism
Verlagsort	Tübingen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 241 mm
Gewicht	559 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Christianity • Judaism • Literature • Liturgy • Magic • rabbinic • rabbinic literature
ISBN-10	3-16-156376-X / 316156376X
ISBN-13	978-3-16-156376-8 / 9783161563768
Zustand	Neuware