Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras: Greek, Latin, and Jewish

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New Series The purpose of this volume is to investigate scholastic culture in the Hellenistic and Roman eras, with a particular focus on ancient book and material culture as well as scholarship beyond Greek authors and the Greek language. Accordingly, one of the major contributions of this work is the inclusion of multiple perspectives and its contributors engage not only with elements of Greek scholastic culture, but also bring Greek ideas into conversation with developing Latin scholarship (see chapters by Dickey, Nicholls, Marshall) and the perspective of a minority culture (i.e., Jewish authors) (see chapters by Hezser, Adams). This multicultural perspective is an important next step in the discussion of ancient scholarship and this volume provides a starting point for future inquiries. Acknowledgements Contents Introduction: Themes in Ancient Scholarship Scholastic Research in the Archive? Hellenistic Historians and Ancient Archival Records Circulation of Lexica in the Hellenistic and Early Imperial Period ‘Bookish Places’ in Imperial Rome: Bookshops and the Urban Landscape of Learning Towards a Typology of the Ancient Latin Legal Book New Readings in the Text of Herodian What does a Linguistic Expert Know? The Conflict between Analogy and Atticism Suetonius the Bibliographer Translating Texts: Contrasting Roman and Jewish Depictions of Literary Translations Rabbis as Intellectuals in the Context of Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Christian Scholasticism Bibliography Subject Index Author Index Works Cited