Uses and Misuses of Ancient Mediterranean Sources

doi:10.1628/978-3-16-160012-8

Uses and Misuses of Ancient Mediterranean Sources

Erudition, Authority, Manipulation

Edited by Chiara Meccariello and Jennifer Singletary

[Gebrauch und Missbrauch antiker Mediterraner Quellen.]

2022. VI, 352 pages.

Studies in Education and Religion in Ancient and Pre-Modern History in the Mediterranean and Its Environs (SERAPHIM) 12

DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-160012-8

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How were ancient textual sources used and manipulated? And how can this help us understand the dissemination of religious and mythological knowledge in different historical contexts? This interdisciplinary collection of essays concerning ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece, and Rome uses multiple approaches and perspectives to analyze the reuse of texts from different historical and geographical contexts across the ancient Mediterranean.

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Chiara Meccariello studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore and at the University of Pisa, Italy; 2013 PhD in Classics; 2013-14 postdoctoral position at the Universities of Vienna, 2014-17 in Oxford; 2017-20 member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1136 “Education and Religion” at the Georg-August University of Göttingen; currently Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5174-7890

Jennifer Singletary PhD from Brown University; 2017-19 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Georg-August University of Göttingen in the Collaborative Research Centre 1136; Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Montana and Wofford College; 2017 Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible from the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University; 2018 Regional Scholar Award from the Society of Biblical Literature; currently Assistant Research Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4869-3438