Books and readers in the premodern world : essays in honor of Harry Gamble / edited by Karl Shuve.
Contributor(s): Gamble, Harry Y [honouree.] | Shuve, Karl [editor.]
Material type: TextSeries: Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series: no. 12.Publisher: Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2018]Description: xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628372236; 1628372230; 9780884143291; 0884143295Subject(s): Gamble, Harry Y., 1941- | Sacred books -- History and criticism | Judaism | Christianity | Islam | Books and reading -- Religious aspects | Material culture -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 208 LOC classification: BL71 | .B66 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL71 .B66 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903528830 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Karl Shuve -- Part 1. The materiality of books. -- Papyrus beyond writing : Early Christian texts and ancient natural history / C. M. Chin -- The transformative role of paper in the literary culture of the Islamic lands / Jonathan M. Bloom -- From the oral to the written : Qur'an manuscripts from the early centuries of Islam / Sheila Blair -- From ancient to medieval books: on reading and illuminating manuscripts in the seventh century / Lawrence Nees -- Part 2. Literary cultures. -- Books and private readers in early Christian Oxyrhynchus : "a spiritual meadow and a garden of delight" / AnneMarie Luijendijk -- The Bible in the Qur'an, the Qur'an in the Bible : scriptural intertextuality in the language of Islam / Sidney H. Griffith -- Unreliable books : debates over falsified scriptures at the frontier between Judaism and Christianity / Karl Shuve.