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1 online resource (342 pages) |
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Religion in the first Christian centuries |
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Religion in the first Christian centuries.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of plates -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- General introduction -- 1 Not subjects of a despot: Stoics -- Things handed down to us: re-presented texts -- See how well I read: texts in use -- Conclusions -- 2 Salvation through each other: Epicureans -- A few books between friends: the collection and distribution of written texts -- Snakes in the garden: pseudepigraphy and textual criticism -- Veritas, brevitas: epitomes -- Mali verborum interpretes: translation and commentary |
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Most 'scruciating idle: the use (and non-use) of booksThe rhetoric of stone: the inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda -- Conclusions -- 3 A library lost and found: Peripatetics -- Aristotle redux: Andronicus -- Jots and tittles, pseudepigraphy, textual criticism, and corpus organization -- Commentaries simple and complex -- Pseudo-Aristotelians at work: epitomes and paraphrases -- It was discussed: texts in use -- Conclusions -- 4 Books beneath a plane tree: Platonists -- Arranging according to wisdom: strategies for reading |
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Readers by themselves: commentaryCliff notes meets the Timaeus: epitomes and handbooks -- For three days . . .: texts in use -- Conclusions -- 5 Jewish and Christian groups -- General introduction -- Part 1 Laws transcendent and dazzling: Philo of Alexandria -- A continuous flood of instruction: Philo the teacher -- Conclusions -- Part 2 Books among the sons of light: Qumran -- The community -- The interpretation concerns . . .: pesher commentary -- Targum: translating scripture -- Texts at home and away: abbreviations and anthologies |
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How lovely are her eyes: re-presented BibleAll night long: study contexts at Qumran -- Why so much writing at Qumran? -- Part 3 Texts and text-brokers: Judaism in Palestine -- Of young girls and virgins: translating the Bible (Greek) -- His eyes were not red: translating the Bible (Aramaic) -- Dew from the ice of Paradise: re-presented Bible -- Find, open, read, observe: texts in use -- Textual experts: scribes -- Part 4 Unless someone guides me: Christian groups -- The demands of performance and the form of texts |
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As when present, so when absent: Paul as teacher and text-brokerNot as a teacher: the Epistle of Barnabas as anthology and commentary -- Christians and the codex -- Conclusions -- General conclusions -- Teachers and texts: a model -- Appendix: What did Thaumasius want? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 19, 2015) |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- History -- To 1500
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Jewish religious education -- History -- To 1500
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Christian education -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Christian education -- Early church
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Jewish religious education
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Philosophy -- Study and teaching
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203462539 |
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020346253X |
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