Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity

Catherine Hezser is Professor of Jewish Studies at SOAS, University of London. Diana V. Edelman is Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo.

• Introduction: The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in AntiquityCatherine HezserPart 1: Ancient Mesopotamia1. Access to Religious Knowledge in Ancient BabyloniaAndrew George, SOAS, University of London2. Public Lamentation in Ancient MesopotamiaSam Mirelman, SOAS, University of London Part 2: Ancient and Medieval Judaism3. Textual Strategies for Disseminating Torah Knowledge among Ordinary Jews ca. 350–200 BCE Diana Edelman 4. The Production and Dissemination of Knowledge within the Qumran CommunityDavid Hamidovic, University of Lausanne5. ‘If They Are Not Prophets, They Are Sons of Prophets’: Folk Religion (Minhag) as a Source of Rabbinic LawPhilip Alexander, University of Manchester 6. Interaction between Rabbis and Non-Rabbinic Jews in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late AntiquityCatherine Hezser 7. Medieval Jewish Liturgy as Religious EducationStefan C. Reif, University of Cambridge Part 3: Early and Byzantine Christianity8. Reading Thecla: Holy Women as Transmitters of KnowledgeChristine Amadou, University of Oslo 9. The Dissemination of Religious Knowledge through Apocrypha in Egyptian MonasteriesHugo Lundhaug, University of Oslo10. Religious Knowledge and Models of Authority in Sixth-Century GazaJan R. Stenger, University of Glasgow