2. Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. LOUD COWS VII
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe 10
6. 3. Gracious Words: Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era 38
7. 4. The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England 58
8. 5. Keep Listening: Ethnography and Reading 80
9. 6. The Presence of the Name: Reading Scripture in an Indonesian Village 98
10. 7. Literacy, Orality, and Ritual Practice in Highland Colombia 139
11. 8. Japanese Spirit and Chinese Learning: Scribes and Storytellers in Pre-modern Japan 156
12. 9. Textual Interpretation as Collective Action 180
13. 10. Voices Around the Text: The Ethnography of Reading at Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem 212
14. 11. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom 238
15. 12. Afterword 270
16. INDEX 277