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Subject(s)

• Sacred books—Congresses [Browse]
• Bible—Canon—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions [Browse]

Author

• Toorn, K. van der [Browse]

Series

• Numen numerus ; Volume 82. [More in this series]
• Numen Book Series ; Volume 82

Summary note

This volume contains the papers read at the Leiden Conference on Canonization and Decanonization of 9-10 January 1997. The emphasis in this rich and wide-ranging contribution to the subject is on the processes of canonization and decanonization in several religions and on the phenomenon of religious canons as well. It has two sections: (De)canonization and the History of Religions, and (De)canonization and Modern Society. In the first section processes out of which canons eventually emerge are highlighted in contributions devoted to particular religions, viz. African religions, Judaism and Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism. The articles of the second section are of particular relevance to the contemporary situation in the western world, dealing with aspects such as forms of the survival of a canon in processes of modernization, canonization and the challenge of plurality, and canonization and hermeneutics. The reader may benefit even more from this volume as it contains also An Annotated Bibliography on the subject.

Notes

"Papers presented to the International Conference of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (LISOR), held at Leiden 9-10 January 1997."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-506) and indexes.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• (De)Canonization and the History of Religions
• Canonization in Oral and Literate Cultures
• The Canonization of Ancient Books Kept in the Temple of Jerusalem / A. van der Kooij
• The ‘Writings’: A Hellenistic Literary Canon in the Hebrew Bible / B. Lang
• Quotation Formulae and Canon in Qumran / J.L. Lust
• Septuagint Proverbs — and Canonization / J. Cook
• The Rabbinic Canon and the old Testament of the Early Church: A Social-Historical View
• The new Testament Canon as the Embodiment of Evolving Christian Attitudes Towards the Jews / P.J. Tomson
• The Second-Third Century Canonization of the Hebrew Bible and its Influence on Christian Canonizing / Z. Zevit
• Canon and the Samaritans / J. Zsengellér
• The Song of Songs as a Microcosm of the Canonization and Decanonization Process / D.M. Carr
• The Muslim Canon from Late Antiquity to the Era of Modernism / A. Al-Azmeh
• Buddhist Hermeneutics in Medieval Japan Canonical Texts, Scholastic Tradition, and Sectarian Polemics / L. Dolce
• Apocryphal Texts in Chinese Buddhism T'ien-T'ai Chih-I's Use of Apocryphal Scriptures / P.L. Swanson
• The Invention of a Canon: The Case of Zoroastrianism / M. Stausberg
• Canon Formation in new Religious Movements the Case of the Japanese New Religions / Elaine C. Cornille
• (De)Canonization and Modern Society
• Canons, Catalogues and Classics / J.Z. Smith
• Canonicity and the Problem of the Golden MeAN
• Being Convinced: On the Foundations of the Christian Canon
• The Canon as a Straitjacket / H.M. Vos
• Tradition, (de)Canonization, and the Challenge of Plurality / L. Boeve
• Bemerkungen zur Koagulation von ‘Stories’ und zum Phänomen der Kanonisierung / D. Ritschl
• The Canon: Authority and Fascination / Th.L. Hettema
• Texts, Canon, and Revelation in Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics / Th.M. van Leeuwen
• Canon and Social Control / M.B. ter Borg
• La Totémisation de la Société Remarques sur les Montages Canoniques et la Question du Sujet / P. Legendre
• Canonization and Decanonization: An Annotated Bibliography / J.A.M. Snoek
• Index of Modern Authors
• Selected Index of Ancient Sources / Robert Kraft
• Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.

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ISBN

90-04-37906-1

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004379060

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