Canonisation as Innovation: Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium Bce (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004520257)

Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman) as case studies. It focuses on canonisation as a form of cultural formation, asking why and how canonisation works in this particular way and explaining the importance of the first millennium BCE for these question and vice versa. As a result of this focus, notions like anchoring, cultural memory, embedding and innovation play an important role throughout the book.

Author: Damien Agut-Labord鑽e
ISBN-10: 9004520252
ISBN-13: 9789004520257
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover