Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. The Resurrection of the Divine Assembly and the Divine Title El in the Dead Sea Scrolls 9
6. Out of the Mainstream 33
7. The Submersion of Mythography 43
8. The Emergence of Athens 55
9. The Purification of Orestes at Troezen 71
10. Literacy and Orality in the Attic Orators 95
11. With Pausanias (and Others) in the Agora of Sparta 113
12. Beyond the Boundary of the Poetic Language: Enigmas and Riddles in Greek and Roman Culture 131
13. Cantare cantilenae 155
14. Modes of Scriptural and Personal Authority in Late Antique Religion 169
15. Gnosticism and Radical Feminism 183
16. Submerged Literature in China 201
17. Mapping Submerged Territories 221
18. Cultural Continuities 235
19. Index Nominum 251
20. Index Locorum 263
21. Index Rerum Notabilium 271
22. Contributors 277