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This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures as of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as "sticky" objects, and examines 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 analyses 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.>
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Introduction to UnrulyBooksEsther Brownsmith, University of Dayton Marianne Bjel land Kartzow, University o fOslo
Liv Ingeborg Lied, M FNorwegian School of Theology, Religion and SocietySection I :Unruliness in Early Jewish TextsChapter 1. Gender and Imagined Authorship of Ancient Jewish Texts
Hanna Tervanotko ,McMaster UniversityChapter 2. Imagined and Unruly: The
Letter of Aristeas and the Septuagint
Benjamin Wright, Lehigh UniversityChapter 3. Why Didn't Biblical Books Have Titles? A Study in Ancient Hebrew Literary Values
Seth Sanders, University of California, DavisSection II: Unruliness in Early Christian TextsChapter 4. The Letter to the Laodiceans: A" Ghost of a Pauline Epistle?"
Vemund Blomkvist, University of OsloChapter 5. Unruly Scriptures in the Greek
ClementinesIsmo Dunderberg, University o fHelsinkiChapter 6. Failed Gospels and Disciplinary Knowledge in Origen's
Homily on Luke 1Jeremiah Coogan, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University Section III: Unruliness in Islamic TextsChapter 7. Unruly Books in the Qur'an
Matthew P.Monger, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and SocietyChapter 8. Writing the self through listing others: Qa?i ?Iya?'s biobibliographical catalogue al-Ghunya
Nora Eggen, University of OsloSection IV: Unruly ReceptionsChapter 9. Hermetic Books Known Only by Title: Scrolls, Stelae, and the Egyptian Total Library
Christian Bull, University of BergenChapter 10. The Canon and the Anti-Canon: Unruly Books and the Booklist Genre in Slavia Orthodoxa
SlavomírCéplö, Ruhr-Universität BochumChapter 11. Books Known Only by Title in Book Lists: The Unruly Entries of the Gelasian Decree and Abdisho of Nisibis's Catalogue of the Books of the Church
Rebecca Solevåg, VID Specialized University, Stavanger
Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and SocietyChapter 12. Gospel Thrillers: Unruly Knowledge in a Fictional Archive
Andrew Jacobs, Harvard Divinity SchoolListofContributors BibliographyIndex
About the author
Esther Brownsmith is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Dayton, USA.Liv Ingeborg Lied is Professor of the Study of Religion at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway.Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.
