Canonisation as Innovation: Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium Bce

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004520252
• ISBN13: 9789004520257
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"