Economic Aspects of Reading

Economic Aspects of Reading

Organizer
LMU München, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für NT II mit dem Schwerpunkt Neues Testament und Griechisch-Römische Kultur (Prof. Dr. Jan Heilmann; Prof. Dr. Robyn Walsh)
Host
Prof. Dr. Jan Heilmann; Prof. Dr. Robyn Walsh
Venue
LMU München, Professor-Huber-Platz 2, room W401
Funded by
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
ZIP
80539
Location
München
Country
Germany
From - Until
04.08.2022 - 06.08.2022
By
Jan Heilmann, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, LMU München

The interdisciplinary conference "Economic Aspects of Reading" is dedicated to economic, socio-cultural, and religious-scientific aspects of ancient reading culture, with a special focus on the imperial era and early Christianity.

Economic Aspects of Reading

The book market of the ancient Mediterranean world offers an important key for understanding the reading culture in which the production and reception of ancient texts was embedded. New findings on the costs, exchange, and distribution of literary works indicate the existence of a reading population ranking below that of the top elite of Roman society. If these writings were received by a broader range of individual, social actors than previously assumed, it calls into question theses centered on the idea that certain texts – like those associated with early Christianity – are the product of “communities.” This interdisciplinary conference is dedicated to economic, socio-cultural, and religious-scientific aspects of ancient reading culture, with a special focus on the imperial era and early Christianity. Literary case studies are set in dialogue with contributions on the materiality of reading practices from a historical perspective.

Programm

Thursday, August 4, 2022

10:30 a.m. Coffee

11:00 a.m. Introduction

PART I: MATERIALITY AND PRACTICE /TEIL I: MATERIALITÄT UND PRAXIS

11:30 a.m. Helmut Krasser: Räume literarischer Kommunikation und Praktiken des Lesens in der Kaiserzeit

12:30 p.m. Jan Heilmann: The Relevance of Ancient Book Prices and the Book Market for the Ancient Reading Culture

01:30 p.m. Lunch

02:30 p.m. Jeremiah Coogan: Literary Work and the Aesthetics of the Excerpt in the Roman Imperial Period

03:30 p.m. Jennifer Eyl: Peddlers of God’s Word: Pistis, Pneumatic Gifts, and Paul’s Denial of Economic Interest

04:30 p.m. Coffee break

05:00 p.m. Robyn Walsh: Early Christian Literature and the Nouveau Riche

PART II: SOCIOCULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES PERSPECTIVES / TEIL II: SOZIOKULTURELLE UND RELIGIONSWISSENSCHAFTLICHE PERSPEKTIVEN

06:00 p.m. Kevin Künzl: Geld ist Zeit. Lesende und nicht-lesende Berufsgruppen in der frühen Kaiserzeit und die Rezipienten der neutestamentlichen Schriften

07:30 p.m. Dinner

Friday, August 5, 2022

08:30 a.m. Candida Moss: Reading in Practice: Impairment, Functional Illiteracy and Enslaved Workers

09:30 a.m. Sarah Rollens: The Role of the Written Word in Early Christian Representations of Mission

10:30 a.m. Coffee break

11:30 a.m. Andrew McGowan: Reading as Sacrifice: Liturgy, Ministry, and Economy in early Christianity

12:30 p.m Clemens Leonhard: Early Christian Readers and Christian Liturgical Readings

01:30 p.m. Lunch

02:30 p.m. Cultural program

05:00 p.m. Martin Wallraff: An Imperial Book Order: What did Constantine order in the scriptorium of Caesarea and why?

06:00 p.m. Dan Ullucci: The Discussion Simulator: Christian Ritualizing of Literate

07:30 p.m. Dinner

Saturday, August 6, 2022

PART III: LITERARY CASE STUDIES/TEIL III: LITERARISCHE FALLSTUDIEN

08:30 a.m. Cat Lambert: Enslavement and the Reader(s) in Seneca's Moral Epistles

09:30 a.m. Dennis Pausch: sic potest Titus Livius a Doro accipere aut emere libros suos. Die antike Historiographie und der Handel mit Büchern

10:30 a.m. Coffee break

11:30 a.m. Loren Stuckenbruck: What Can We Learn from the Production and Re-Production of Books among the Dead Sea Scrolls for Rethinking the Synoptic Problem?

12:30 p.m. Matthias Klinghardt: Anonymisierung und der Anfang der christlichen Publizistik

01:30 p.m. Lunch

02:30 p.m. Theron Clay Mock III

Readers of Jewish and Early Christian Apocalyptic Literature

03:30 p.m. Coffee break

04:00 p.m. Luke Neubert: Reading and Orality? On Rabbinical Literacy and the Transmission of Rabbinical Writings in Eretz Israel.

05:00 p.m. Final discussion

07:00 p.m. Dinner

Contact (announcement)

Registration:

E-Mail: nt2-sekretariat@evtheol.uni-muenchen.de

https://www.nt1.evtheol.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/economic-aspects-of-reading/flyer-economic-aspects-reading.pdf
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