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The Unruly Books of Abdisho of Nisibis: Book Lists, Canon Discourse, and the Quest for Lost Writings

Chapter of: Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World(pp. 62–103)

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TitleThe Unruly Books of Abdisho of Nisibis
SubtitleBook Lists, Canon Discourse, and the Quest for Lost Writings
ContributorLiv Ingeborg Lied(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0375.03
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0375/chapters/10.11647/obp.0375.03
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
CopyrightLiv Ingeborg Lied
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-12-19
Long abstractA 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 Catalogue of the Books of the Church. 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.
Page rangepp. 62–103
Print length42 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Liv Ingeborg Lied

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Professor of the Study of Religion at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5022-0670

Liv Ingeborg Lied is a professor of the Study of Religion at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in Oslo, Norway. She is the author of several books and articles. Her most recent monograph is Invisible Manuscripts: Textual Scholarship and the Survival of 2 Baruch (Mohr Siebeck, 2021).