Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions (Semitic Languages and Cultures) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1805115480 ISBN 13: 9781805115489

Verlag: Open Book Publishers, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

This volume contains the proceedings the 'Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions' colloquium, hosted at the University of Oxford in 2023, and jointly sponsored by the Oriel Centre for the Study of the Bible and the European Research Council project, 'TEXTEVOLVE.'The aim of the colloquium was to investigate Jewish approaches to the reading of texts, with a focus on reading practices that were applied to Hebrew and Aramaic texts in antiquity and the early Middle Ages. It explored, in particular, how these were shaped by material and non-textual aspects (oral traditions, performative context, philological values, etc). Among the questions it addressed were: How did non-textual components determine reading? To what extent did materiality shape or limit readings? How did reading practices shape the texts themselves? What values guided how texts were modified and variant texts evaluated? What determined which form or version of a text was read and according to what conventions? The responses to these questions collected in this volume highlight the tensions between authority and creativity, preservation and innovation, understanding and misapprehension, knowledge and ignorance, which shaped Jewish practices of reading.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Open Book Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1805115480
• ISBN 13: 9781805115489
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 500
• Herausgeber: Patmore Hector M., Najman Hindy, Schorch Stefan
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