Placing Ancient Texts

The Ritual and Rhetorical Use of Space
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-16-156376-8
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 174, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahuvia, Mika

Kocar, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums

Über Autor(innen)

Ahuvia, Mika
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.

Kocar, Alexander
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.