Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam /

Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / / ed. by Mladen Popović, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Clare Wilde.

Few studies focus on the modes of knowledge transmission (or concealment), or the trends of continuity or change from the Ancient to the Late Antique worlds. In Antiquity, knowledge was cherished as a scarce good, cultivated through the close teacher-student relationship and often preserved in the c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Berthelot, Katell,
Lanzillotta, Lautaro Roig,
Leão, Delfim F.,
Popović, Mladen,
Robson, Eleanor,
Walker, Paul E.,
Wilde, Clare,
van Kooten, George,
van Ruiten, Jacques,
HerausgeberIn:
Popović, Mladen,
Roig Lanzillotta, Lautaro,
Wilde, Clare,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 210 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Do Not Disperse the Collection! Motivations and Strategies for Protecting Cuneiform Scholarship in the First Millennium BCE
  • 2. Multilingualism, Multiscripturalism, and Knowledge Transfer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Graeco-Roman Judaea
  • 3. Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in the Book of Jubilees
  • 4. The Torah Between Revelation and Concealment in Rabbinic Traditions Pertaining to the Conquest of the Land of Canaan
  • 5. Alexandria, Diaspora, Politeuma and Patrioi Nomoi: The Sharing and Hiding of Jewish Identity
  • 6. Ancient Greek Patterns of Knowledge Transmission and their Continuity in Gnostic Esotericism
  • 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
  • 8. “They Wish to Extinguish the Light of God with Their Mouths” (Qurʾān 9:32): A Qurʾānic Critique of Late Antique Scholasticism?
  • 9. Techniques for Guarding and Restricting Esoteric Knowledge in the Ismaili Daʿwa during the Fatimid Period
  • Thor Index
  • Sources Index

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