The Unruly Books of Abdisho of Nisibis: Book Lists, Canon Discourse, and the Quest for Lost WritingsCambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 22Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/EJF9SJAZ/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Liv IngeborgLiedThe Unruly Books of Abdisho of Nisibis: Book Lists, Canon Discourse, and the Quest for Lost Writingshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/EJF9SJAZhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/EJF9SJAZhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/EJF9SJAZTeresaBernheimerRonnyVollandtSynopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern WorldCambridgeOpen Book Publishers202362-103Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 22A catalogue as a list, more precisely a book list, is the focus of Liv Ingeborg Lied’s contribution. Lied critically engages scholarship on the list of Old Testament books in Abdisho of Nisibis’s (d. 1318) Syriac <i>Catalogue of the Books of the Church</i>. Focusing on the trajectories in scholarship that have focused on the Christian biblical canon and the lost books of early Judaism, she explores the entries that have proven challenging to this scholarship. The unruly entries of Abdisho’s list fall into three categories: writings that are only known by title and which do not survive as extant and available texts, writings known by multiple titles, and entries that do not comply with the scholarly imagination of an Old Testament book. A new look at the epistemological and ontological status of these categories of entries provides a correction to the treatment of book lists by modern and contemporary scholars and a new appreciation of the many ways of knowing (about) books in a manuscript culture.
Lied, Liv Ingeborg. “The Unruly Books of Abdisho of Nisibis: Book Lists, Canon Discourse, and the Quest for Lost Writings.” In Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World, edited by Teresa Bernheimer and Ronny Vollandt, 62–103. Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 22. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023.
Liv Ingeborg Lied, The Unruly Books of Abdisho of Nisibis: Book Lists, Canon Discourse, and the Quest for Lost Writings, in Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World, ed. Teresa Bernheimer and Ronny Vollandt, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 22 (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023), 62–103.