Iconic books are texts revered as objects of power rather than just as words of instruction, information, or insight. In religious and secular rituals around the globe, people carry, show, wave, touch and kiss books and other texts, as well as read them. This blog chronicles such events and activities. (For more about iconic books, see the links to the Iconic Books Project at left.)

Thursday, October 8, 2020

SCRIPT research in reference articles

 

 SCRIPT research is beginning to find its way into Reference articles. Unfortunately, these are behind pay walls, but those whose institutions subscribe may find some interesting summaries here, and potential reading assignments for classroom use, too.

•    Dorina Miller Parmenter, “Material Scripture,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts (ed. T. Beal, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), in Oxford Biblical Studies Online, http://www.oxfordbiblicalcstudies.com/article/opr/t454/e97.
•    Seth Perry, “Bible formats and Bindings,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America (ed. Paul Gutjahr; Oxford, 2017). In Oxford Handbooks Online, https://10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190258849.013.43.
•    Katharina Wilkens, “Text Acts,” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion (ed. Anne Koch, Katharina Wilkens; London: Bloomsbury, 2019).
•    Three entries in The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Bible (ed. Sam Balentine; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020):

o    James Watts, “Ritualizing Iconic Jewish Texts,” https://10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222116.013.16.
o    Dorina Miller Parmenter, “Ritualizing Christian Iconic Texts,” https://10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222116.013.14.
o    Jonas Svensson, “Ritualizing Muslim Iconic Texts,” https://10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222116.013.15.

•    James Watts, “Materiality of Scripture—1 General,” in the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Berlin: DeGruyter, 2020. 57-63.

They have been added to the Categorized Bibliography of Iconic Books.

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