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Subject(s)

• Sacred books—Congresses [Browse]
• Books—Religious aspects—Congresses [Browse]

Editor

• Watts, James W. (James Washington), 1960- [Browse]

Notes

• "First published in Volume 2.2-3 and Volume 6.1-3 of the journal Postscripts"--Title page verso.
• Proceedings of 3 symposiums held at Syracuse University in 2007 and 2010 and at Hamilton College in 2009. (Introduction)

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• The three dimensions of scriptures / James W. Watts
• "Winged words" : scriptures and classics as iconic texts / William A. Graham
• Talking about "iconic books" in the terminology of book history / Deirdre C. Stam
• The iconic book : the image of the Bible in early Christian rituals / Dorina Miller Parmenter
• Images to be read and words to be seen : the iconic role of the early medieval book / Michelle P. Brown
• Looking at words : the iconicity of the page / S. Brent Plate
• Between the textual and the visual : borderlines of late antique book iconicity / Zeev Elitzur
• It is what it is (or is it?) : further reflections on the Buddhist representation of manuscripts / Jacob Kinnard
• The tell-tale iconic book : the hermeneutics of 16th century Biblical illustrations / M. Patrick Graham
• Muṣḥaf and the material boundaries of the Qurʼan / Natalia K. Suit
• The end of the word as we know it : the cultural iconicity of the Bible in the twilight of print culture / Timothy Beal
• Iconic books from below : the Christian Bible and the discourse of duct tape / Dorina Miller Parmenter
• Be-witching scripture : the Book of shadows as scripture within Wicca/Neopagan witchcraft / Shawn Loner
• Engaging with the guru : Sikh beliefs and practices of Guru Granth Sahib / Kristina Myrvold
• A birthday party for a sacred scripture : the Gita Jayanti and the embodiment of God as the book and the book as God / Joanne Punzo Waghorne
• Possession and repetition : ways in which Korean lay Buddhists appropriate scriptures / Yohan Yoo
• The Bible in British folklore / Brian Malley
• The pride and prejudice of the Western world : canonic memory, great books and archive fever / Karl Ivan Solibakke
• Indigenous "texts" of inhabiting the land : George Washington's wampum belt and the Canandaigua Treaty / Philip P. Arnold
• The Gospels as imperialized sites of memory in late ancient Christianity / Jason T. Larson
• Possessing the iconic book : Ben Sira as case study / Claudia V. Camp
• Ancient iconic texts and scholarly expertise / James W. Watts.

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Other title(s)

Postscripts (Hornsea, England)

ISBN

• 9781845539856 (hb)
• 1845539850 (hb)

LCCN

2011033512

OCLC

747385681

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