Paratext and megatext as channels of Jewish and Christian traditions : : the textual markers of contextualization / / edited by August den Hollander, Ulrich Schmid, Willem Smelik.

• Superior document: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series; 6
• Author: Society of Biblical Literature. Annual Meeting
• TeilnehmendeR: Hollander, August den,; Schmid, Ulrich, 1962-; Smelik, Willem F.,; Society of Biblical Literature. Annual Meeting
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Religious traditions are channeled to new audiences by textual markers, which inform their understanding and influence. Such markers are signs of contextualisation which belong to the paratext of a tradition: textual elements that do not belong to the core text itself but belong to their embedding a...