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Author | : Bradford A. Anderson |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2020-06-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110631466 |
Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms—from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn as a starting point, this volume highlights material dimensions of the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The essays in this collection investigate how material aspects have shaped the production and use of these texts within and between the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, from antiquity to the present day. Contributors also reflect on the implications of transitions between varied material forms and media cultures. Taken together, the essays suggests that materiality is significant for the academic study of sacred texts, as well as for reflection on developments within and between these religious traditions. This volume offers insightful analysis on key issues related to the materiality of sacred texts in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, while also highlighting the significance of transitions between various material forms, including the current shift to digital culture.
Author | : Dennis Baron |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0199914001 |
A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective, describing how the digital revolution influences our reading and writing practices, and how the latest technologies differ from what came before.
Author | : Thomas Forrest Kelly |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393285049 |
A beautifully illustrated, full-color guide to scrolls and their uses in medieval life. Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the codex—or book—became the preferred medium for long texts. Why, then, did some people in the Middle Ages continue to make scrolls? In The Role of the Scroll, music professor and historian Thomas Forrest Kelly brings to life the most interesting scrolls in medieval history, placing them in the context of those who made, commissioned, and used them, and reveals their remarkably varied uses. Scrolls were the best way to keep ever-expanding lists, for example, those of debtors, knights, and the dead, the names of whom were added to existing rolls of parchment through the process of “enrollment.” While useful for keeping public records, scrolls could also be extremely private. Forgetful stage performers relied on them to recall their lines—indeed, “role” comes from the French word for scroll—and those looking for luck carried either blessings or magic spells, depending on their personal beliefs. Finally, scrolls could convey ceremonial importance, a purpose that lives on with academic diplomas. In these colorful pages, Kelly explores the scroll’s incredible diversity and invites us to examine showy court documents for empresses and tiny amulets for pregnant women. A recipe for turning everyday metal into gold offers a glimpse into medieval alchemy, and a log of gifts for Queen Elizabeth I showcases royal flattery and patronage. Climb William the Conqueror’s family tree and take a journey to the Holy Land using a pilgrimage map marked with such obligatory destinations as Jaffa, where Peter resurrected Tabitha, and Ramada, the city of Saint Joseph’s birth. A lively and accessible guide, The Role of the Scroll is essential reading—and viewing—for anyone interested in how people keep record of life through the ages.
Author | : Ross Nichols |
Publisher | : Horeb Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2021-02-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781736613405 |
Reopening the Most Controversial Case in the History of Biblical Scholarship
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Publisher | : Onomatopee |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789493148253 |
An artist's assembly of contemporary speculations on politics, technology and more Edited by artist Anne de Vries in collaboration with an AI text generator, this book offers a "scroll" through the tumultuous present, from posthumanism to the anthropocene, with writings from esteemed contemporary theorists.
Author | : Patrick E. Spielman |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780806947723 |
Presents 450 patterns for scroll saw projects, including wall plaques, refrigerator magnets, candle holders, alphabet letters, numbers, jewelry, ornaments, shelves, and picture frames, and projects using recess, relief, marquetry, and inlay techniques.
Author | : Bradford A. Anderson |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2020-06-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110634449 |
Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms—from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn as a starting point, this volume highlights material dimensions of the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The essays in this collection investigate how material aspects have shaped the production and use of these texts within and between the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, from antiquity to the present day. Contributors also reflect on the implications of transitions between varied material forms and media cultures. Taken together, the essays suggests that materiality is significant for the academic study of sacred texts, as well as for reflection on developments within and between these religious traditions. This volume offers insightful analysis on key issues related to the materiality of sacred texts in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, while also highlighting the significance of transitions between various material forms, including the current shift to digital culture.
Author | : Roger S. Bagnall |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 711 |
Release | : 2011-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199843694 |
Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.
Author | : Colin H. Roberts |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1987-09-10 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780197260616 |
In The Codex, published in 1954, C.H. Roberts studied the process by which in the early centuries of our era the roll as the vehicle for literature was replaced by the codex, which has remained the format of the book ever since. New evidence that has accumulated in the last thirty years has set some of the problems in a new light and in this book, published here for the first time in paperback, the authors re-examine these and offer a different explanation for the remarkable part in the transformation played by the early Church.
Author | : Peter Beal |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0199265445 |
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