Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Volume 10

Mladen Popović, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, and Clare Wilde
Introduction 1
Eleanor Robson
1 Do Not Disperse the Collection! Motivations and Strategies for Protecting
Cuneiform Scholarship in the First Millennium BCE 8
Mladen Popović
2 Multilingualism, Multiscripturalism, and Knowledge Transfer in the Dead
Sea Scrolls and Graeco-Roman Judaea 46
Jacques van Ruiten
3 Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in the Book of Jubilees 72
Katell Berthelot
4 The Torah Between Revelation and Concealment in Rabbinic Traditions
Pertaining to the Conquest of the Land of Canaan 85
Delfim F. Leão
5 Alexandria, Diaspora, Politeuma and Patrioi Nomoi: The Sharing
and Hiding of Jewish Identity 106
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
6 Ancient Greek Patterns of Knowledge Transmission and their Continuity
in Gnostic Esotericism 121
George van Kooten
7 The Sign of Socrates, the Sign of Apollo, and the Signs of Christ: Hiding
and Sharing Religious Knowledge in the Gospel of John – A Contrapuntal
Reading of John’s Gospel and Plato’s Dialogues 145
Clare Wilde
8 “They Wish to Extinguish the Light of God with Their Mouths” (Qurʾān
9:32): A Qurʾānic Critique of Late Antique Scholasticism? 171
Paul E. Walker
9 Techniques for Guarding and Restricting Esoteric Knowledge in the Ismaili
Daʿwa during the Fatimid Period 186
Author Index 199
Sources Index 204