Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World

Homer, the Bible, and beyond: literary and religious canons in the ancient world......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Margalit Finkelberg & Guy G. Stroumsa: Introduction: Before the Western Canon......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 16
2. Old Babylonian Literature......Page 18
3. First Millennium Literature......Page 25
4. Conclusion......Page 34
Stephen B. Chapman: How the Biblical Canon Began: Working Models and Open Questions......Page 36
1. The Standard Theory......Page 37
2. Criticism and Revisions of the Theory......Page 39
3. Canon as 'Intertext'......Page 43
4. Early Hermeneutics......Page 47
5. Open Questions......Page 50
1. The Lying Pen of Scribes......Page 60
2. Fishbane......Page 61
3.2. Two More Christian Strategies: Bright and Reuss......Page 62
4. The Problem......Page 64
5. Prophet and Text: a Reciprocal Validation......Page 66
6. The Failure of Prophecy and the Beginning of Canonization......Page 68
Shaul Shaked: Scripture and Exegesis in Zoroastrianism......Page 70
Margalit Finkelberg: Homer as a Foundation Text......Page 82
1. Homer and the Epic Tradition......Page 83
2. The Shaping of Collective Memory......Page 86
3. The Iliad and the Polis......Page 92
4. The Bible of the Greeks......Page 98
Hayden Pelliccia: Two Points about Rhapsodes......Page 104
1. The Rhapsodic Contest: Standardization and Ranking......Page 124
2.1 The Dionysia at Athens......Page 127
2.2 The great theatre reform of Lycurgus in Athens (ca.330 B.C.E.)......Page 129
2.3 From administrative texts to historical research......Page 131
3.1 Lecture in Roman school......Page 133
3.2 "The 'canon' given by the philologists" (Quintilian 10,1)......Page 134
3.3 Ranking of Roman comic poets: the 'canon י of Volcacius Sedigitus......Page 135
4. Conclusion......Page 137
Amiel D. Vardi: Canons of Literary Texts at Rome......Page 138
1. Ahl Al-Kītab......Page 160
2. The Oral Character Of The Christian Movement......Page 166
3. Codex and Canon......Page 174
4. Conclusion......Page 178
1. Question of Modelling......Page 182
2. The Bible in Oxyrhynchus......Page 189
3. Canon and library......Page 193
Robert Lamberton: The Neoplatonists and their Books......Page 202
Hagith Sivan: Canonizing Law in Late Antiquity: Legal Constructs of Judaism in the Theodosian Code......Page 220
1. Law as Canon: The Theodosian Code......Page 221
2. The Manufacturing of Legal Stereotypes: The Case of the Heretic Jew......Page 224
David Stern: On Canonization in Rabbinic Judaism......Page 234
1. The Bible in the Rabbinic period......Page 238
2. The Bible and Homer......Page 244
3. The Bible and Canonization in Rabbinic Judaism......Page 247
Moshe Halbertal: From Oral Tradition to Literary Canon: Shem Τον Ibn Gaon and the Critique of Kabbalistic Literature......Page 260
Andrew H. Plaks: Afterword: Canonization in the Ancient World: The View from Farther East......Page 274
Notes on Contributors......Page 284
Index......Page 288
Back Matter......Page 292