Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices

How to do things with texts: an introduction Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most — 1. Reliable books: Islamic law, canonization, and manuscripts in the Ottoman Empire (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) / Guy Burak (New York University) — 2. Obscurity / Ineke Sluiter (University of Leiden) — 3. Allegoresis and etymology / Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/University of Chicago) — 4. Classifying the Rigveda on the basis of ritual usage: the deity-of-the-formula system / Paolo Visigalli (University of Munich) — 5. Maryadam Ullanghya: The boundaries of interpretation in Early Modern India / Christopher Minkowski (University of Oxford) — 6. Making sense of Suetonius in the Twelfth Century / Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University) — 7. From Philology to Philosophy: Zhu Xi as a reader-annotator / Lianbin Dai (Harvard University) — 8. Gods on clay: Ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions / Aaron Tugendhaft (University of Chicago) — 9. An unknown Medieval Coptic Hebraism? On a momentous junction of Jewish and Coptic biblical studies / Ronny Vollandt (Free University of Berlin) –10. Picturing as practice: placing a square above a square in the Central Middle Ages / Megan McNamee (University of Michigan) — 11. Inimitable sources: canonical texts and rhetorical theory in the Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew Traditions / Filippomaria Pontani (University of Venice) — 12. Excerpts versus fragments: deconstructions and reconstitutions of the Excerpta Constantiniana / András Németh (Vatican Apostolic Library) — 13. Johann Buxtorf makes a notebook / Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (University of Oxford) — 14. World bibliographies: libraries and the reorganization of knowledge in Late Renaissance Europe / Paola Molino (University of Vienna)