Canonisation as Innovation
Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE
Published on 22. September 2022
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-90-04-52025-7 (ISBN)
Description
Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman) as case studies. It focuses on canonisation as a form of cultural formation, asking why and how canonisation works in this particular way and explaining the importance of the first millennium BCE for these question and vice versa. As a result of this focus, notions like anchoring, cultural memory, embedding and innovation play an important role throughout the book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
621 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-52025-7 (9789004520257)
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Miguel John Versluys, Ph.D. (2001), Leiden University, is Professor of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at that university. He has published widely on the cultural dynamics of Afro-Eurasia in Antiquity, including Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World. Nemrud Dag and Commagene under Antiochos I (CUP 2017)
Damien Agut-Labordere, Ph.D. (2005), Centre national de la recherche scientifique, is Charge de recherche in ArScAn research team based in Nanterre. He has published monographs and articles on Ancient Egyptian Literature and, in parallel, on Egypt during the Persian Achaemenid period. As specialist of the Demotic script, he is also involved in several archaeological missions in Egypt, in the Western Desert.
Contributors are: Damien Agut-Labordere, Laurent Bricault, Herve Gonzalez, Casper C. de Jonge, Andre Lardinois, William Marx, John K. Papadopoulos, Alessandra Rolle, Miguel John Versluys, Greg Woolf, Marie Young.
Damien Agut-Labordere, Ph.D. (2005), Centre national de la recherche scientifique, is Charge de recherche in ArScAn research team based in Nanterre. He has published monographs and articles on Ancient Egyptian Literature and, in parallel, on Egypt during the Persian Achaemenid period. As specialist of the Demotic script, he is also involved in several archaeological missions in Egypt, in the Western Desert.
Contributors are: Damien Agut-Labordere, Laurent Bricault, Herve Gonzalez, Casper C. de Jonge, Andre Lardinois, William Marx, John K. Papadopoulos, Alessandra Rolle, Miguel John Versluys, Greg Woolf, Marie Young.
Content
Foreword
Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1 Canon Creation/Destruction and Cultural Formation: Authority, Reception, Canonicity, Marginality
?John K. Papadopoulos
2 Memoire volontaire? Canonisation as Cultural Innovation in Antiquity
?Miguel John Versluys
Part 2: Case Studies
3 "The Tablets I Spoke about Are Good to Preserve until Far-off Days": An Overview on the Creation and Evolution of Canons in Babylonia and Assyria from the Middle Babylonian Period until the End of Cuneiform Sources
?Marie Young
4 Inserting or Ruminating: How Demotic Became Canonic
?Damien Agut-Labordere
5 Creation or Confirmation of the Canon? The Measures of Lycurgus and the Selection of Athenian Tragedy in Antiquity
?Andre Lardinois
6 How Canonization Transformed Greek Tragedy
?William Marx
7 Fixer une memoire observations methodologiques, philologiques et historiques sur la cloture du canon de la bible Hebraique In memoriam Philip R. Davies (1945-2018)
?Herve Gonzalez
8 Challenging the Canon of the Ten Attic Orators. From kanon to Canon
?Casper C. de Jonge
9 L'Aretalogie d'Isis?: biographie d'un texte canonique
?Laurent Bricault
10 Coming Home: Varro's Antiquitates rerum divinarum and the Canonisation of Roman Religion
?Alessandra Rolle
Part 3: Conclusion
11 What Becomes of the Uncanonical?
?Greg Woolf
Index
Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1 Canon Creation/Destruction and Cultural Formation: Authority, Reception, Canonicity, Marginality
?John K. Papadopoulos
2 Memoire volontaire? Canonisation as Cultural Innovation in Antiquity
?Miguel John Versluys
Part 2: Case Studies
3 "The Tablets I Spoke about Are Good to Preserve until Far-off Days": An Overview on the Creation and Evolution of Canons in Babylonia and Assyria from the Middle Babylonian Period until the End of Cuneiform Sources
?Marie Young
4 Inserting or Ruminating: How Demotic Became Canonic
?Damien Agut-Labordere
5 Creation or Confirmation of the Canon? The Measures of Lycurgus and the Selection of Athenian Tragedy in Antiquity
?Andre Lardinois
6 How Canonization Transformed Greek Tragedy
?William Marx
7 Fixer une memoire observations methodologiques, philologiques et historiques sur la cloture du canon de la bible Hebraique In memoriam Philip R. Davies (1945-2018)
?Herve Gonzalez
8 Challenging the Canon of the Ten Attic Orators. From kanon to Canon
?Casper C. de Jonge
9 L'Aretalogie d'Isis?: biographie d'un texte canonique
?Laurent Bricault
10 Coming Home: Varro's Antiquitates rerum divinarum and the Canonisation of Roman Religion
?Alessandra Rolle
Part 3: Conclusion
11 What Becomes of the Uncanonical?
?Greg Woolf
Index