Sacred words : orality, literacy, and religion / / edited by A.P.M.H. Lardinois, J.H. Blok, M.G.M. van der Poel.

• Superior document: Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; v. 8
• Author: International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World
• TeilnehmendeR: Lardinois, A. P. M. H.; Blok, Josine.; Poel, Marc van der.; International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 332.; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 332.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (429 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; 1. The Words Of Gods: Divine Discourse In Homer’s Iliad /; 2. Enter The Divine: Sympotic Performance And Religious Experience /; 3. Past And Present In Pindar’s Religious Poetry /; 4. Euripides, The Derveni Papyrus, And The Smoke Of Many Writings /; 5. Writing Sacred Laws In Archaic And Classical Crete /; 6. Embedded Speech In The Attic Leges Sacrae /; 7. From Oath-Swearing To Entrenchment Clause: The Introduction Of Atimia-Terminology In Legal Inscriptions /; 8. ‘And You, The Demos, Made An Uproar’: Performance, Mass Audiences And Text In The Athenian Democracy /; 9. Hexametrical Incantations As Oral And Written Phenomena /; 10. Oral Bricolage And Ritual Context In The Golden Tablets /; 11. Greek Hymns From Performance To Stone /; 12. Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, And Religious Performance In The Roman Republic /; 13. Homer The Prophet: Homeric Verses And Divination In The Homeromanteion /; 14. Assuming The Mantle Of The Gods: ‘Unknowable Names’ And Invocations In Late Antique Theurgic Ritual /; 15. Plautus The Theologian /; 16. Orality In Livy’s Representation Of The Divine: The Construction Of A Polyphonic Narrative /; 17. Dilemmas Of Pietas In Roman Declamation /; 18. Paul The ‘Herald’ And The ‘Teacher’: Paul’s Self-Images Within An Oral Milieu /; 19. Divine Voice, Literary Models, And Human Authority: Peter And Paul In The Early Christian Church /; 20. Singing Together In Church: Augustine’s Psalm Against The Donatists /; Index Of Passages /; Index Of Subjects /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1283161133; 9786613161130; 9004214216
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by A.P.M.H. Lardinois, J.H. Blok, M.G.M. van der Poel.

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 texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient Greek and Roman religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were in use for both Greek and Roman state and private religions.