TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lardinois,A.P.M.H.
AU  - Blok,Josine
AU  - Poel,Marc van der
ED  - International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World
TI  - Sacred words: orality, literacy, and religion 
T2  - Mnemosyne. Supplements
SN  - 9789004194120
AV  - BL785 .S23 2008eb
U1  - 200.9182/20901 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Religious literature
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Communication
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Littérature religieuse
KW  - Congrès
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Special Interest
KW  - Religious
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - Griechisch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Latein
KW  - Religiöse Literatur
KW  - Schriftlichkeit
KW  - Mündliche Überlieferung
KW  - Alfabetisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Verbale communicatie
KW  - Godsdienst
KW  - Klassieke oudheid
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Gesprochene Sprache
KW  - Heilige Schrift
KW  - Kommunikation
KW  - religiösa aspekter
KW  - historia
KW  - antiken
KW  - konferenser
KW  - sao
KW  - Religiös litteratur
KW  - Muntlig tradition
KW  - Grekland
KW  - Romerska riket
KW  - Greece
KW  - Rome
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Orality
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - Congressen (vorm)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Preface; Notes on Contributors; André Lardinois, Josine Blok and Marc van der Poel, Introduction; PART I. GREEK LITERATURE; 1. Elizabeth Minchin, The Words of Gods: Divine Discourse in Homer's Iliad; 2. Fiona Hobden, Enter the Divine: Sympotic Performance and Religious Experience; 3. Maria Pavlou, Past and Present in Pindar's Religious Poetry; 4. Ruth Scodel, Euripides, the Derveni Papyrus, and the Smoke of Many Writings; PART II. GREEK LAW; 5. Michael Gagarin, Writing Sacred Laws in Archaic and Classical Crete; 6. Sarah Hitch, Embedded Speech in the Attic Leges Sacrae; 7. Evelyn van 't Wout, From Oath-Swearing to Entrenchment Clause: the Introduction of Atimia-Terminology in Legal Inscriptions8. Rosalind Thomas, 'And you, the Demos, Made an Uproar': Performance, Mass Audiences and Text in the Athenian Democracy; PART III. GREEK & ROMAN RELIGIOUS TEXTS; 9. Christopher Faraone, Hexametrical Incantations as Oral and Written Phenomena; 10. Franco Ferrari, Oral Bricolage and Ritual Context in the Golden Tablets; 11. Mark Alonge, Greek Hymns from Performance to Stone; 12. Ana Rodriguez-Mayorgas, Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, and Religious Performance in the Roman Republic13. Andromache Karanika, Homer the Prophet: Homeric Verses and Divination in the Homeromanteion; 14. Crystal Addey, Assuming the Mantle of the Gods: 'Unknowable Names' and Invocations in Late Antique Theurgic Ritual; PART IV. ROMAN LITERATURE; 15. Niall W. Slater, Plautus the Theologian; 16. Vanessa Berger, Orality in Livy's Representation of the Divine: The Construction of a Polyphonic Narrative; 17. Bé Breij, Dilemmas of Pietas in Roman Declamation; PART V. EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE; 18. Akio Ito, Paul the 'Herald' and the 'Teacher': Paul's Self-Images within an Oral Milieu19. James Morrison, Divine Voice, Literary Models, and Human Authority: Peter and Paul in the Early Christian Church; 20. Vincent Hunink, Singing together in Church: Augustine's Psalm against the Donatists; Index of Passages; Index of Subjects
N2  - A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish, starting with the Sibylline books and the Annales Maximi of the Roman priests and culminating in the canonical gospels of the Christians. It is the aim of this volume to modify this view or, at least, to challenge it. Surveying the variety of ways in which different types of t
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