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Introduction. Bookish Circles, Texts, and Textual Production in the Ancient Mediterranean / Jonathan Norton (Heythrop College, University of London, UK), Lindsey Askin (University of Bristol, UK), Garrick Allen (University of Glasgow) -- 1. Sympotic Learning: Symposia Literature and Cultural Education / Sean Adams (University of Glasgow, UK) -- 2. Learning Among Jewish Social Groups in Ptolemaic Egypt / James K. Aitken (University of Cambridge) -- 3. The Social Stratification of Scribes and Readers in Greco-Roman Judaism / Lindsey Askin (University of Bristol, UK) -- 4. Teaching and Learning in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Annette Steudel (Georg-August Universitt̃, Germany) -- 5. Adult Teaching and Learning in Philosophical Schools: The Cases of Epictetus and Calvenus Taurus / Michael Trapp (King's College, UK) -- 6. Ethics or Halacha? 'Calling' as a Key to the Dynamics of Behaviour According to Paul. A Reflection on 1 Corinthians 1:1-11 / Bart Koet (Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, Belgium) -- 7. 'Beyond the Things that are Written: Literacy and Social Circles in Paul's Churches / Jonathan Norton (Heythrop College, University of London, UK) -- 8. Hyperacusis and Relevance in the Lukan Echochamber / Steve Smith (University of Chichester; St Mellitus College, UK) -- 9. II Corinthians, I Clement and Jewish Scripture / Drake Williams III (Tyndale Theological Seminary, the Netherlands) -- 10. Literacy and Hebrew as Written Language in the Hellenistic-Roman Period and Early Rabbinic Texts / Ingo Kottsieper (Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster, Germany) -- 11. Libraries, Special Libraries, and the New Testament: Text-centred Events and the Composition of the Book of Revelation / Garrick Allen (University of Glasgow, UK) -- 12. Bookish Circles? The Use of Written Texts in Rabbinic Oral Culture [repr. from Temas Medievales 2017] / Catherine Hezser (SOAS, University of London, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index. "By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors intentionally place Jewish, Christian, Roman, Greek, and other reading circles back into their encompassing historical context, avoiding subdivisions along modern subject lines, divisions still bearing the ideological marks of ecclesiastical interests. In their examination, contributors avoid dwelling upon traditional methodological debates over orality vs. literacy and social classifications of literacy, instead turning their attention to the social-historical: groups of people, circles and networks, strata and class, scribal culture, material culture, epigraphic and papyrological evidence, functions and types of literacy and the social relationships that all of these entail. Overall, the volume contributes to an emerging and important interdisciplinary collaboration between specialists in ancient literacy, encouraging future discussion between two traditionally divided fields."--
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