Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity

book: Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity

Edited by: Monika Amsler
Funded by: SNF

Volume 142 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111010311

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Social Studies of the sciences have long analyzed and exposed the constructed nature of knowledge. Pioneering studies of knowledge production in laboratories (e.g., Latour/Woolgar 1979; Knorr-Cetina 1981) have identified factors that affect processes that lead to the generation of scientific data and their subsequent interpretation, such as money, training and curriculum, location and infrastructure, biography-based knowledge and talent, and chance. More recent theories of knowledge construction have further identified different forms of knowledge, such as tacit, intuitive, explicit, personal, and social knowledge. These theoretical frameworks and critical terms can help reveal and clarify the processes that led to ancient data gathering, information and knowledge production.　

The contributors use late-antique hermeneutical associations as means to explore intuitive or even tacit knowledge; they appreciate mistakes as a platform to study the value of personal knowledge and its premises; they think about rows and tables, letter exchanges, and schools as platforms of distributed cognition; they consider walls as venues for social knowledge production; and rethink the value of social knowledge in scholarly genealogies—then and now.

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Monika Amsler, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity Monika Amsler Open Access Download PDF	1
Better Left Unread: Rabbinic Interpretations of Prophetic Scrolls Daniel Picus Open Access Download PDF	29
Tabular Thinking in Late Ancient Palestine: Instrumentality, Work, and the Construction of Knowledge Jeremiah Coogan Open Access Download PDF	57
Leading Sources of Knowledge at the Monastery: Isidore of Pelusium Elizabeth Mattingly Conner Open Access Download PDF	83
Fabricating Monstrosity: Archival Manipulation and the Production of Orthodoxy in Socrates of Constantinople’s Ecclesiastical History Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos Open Access Download PDF	105
Knowledge Construction in Progress: From Paratext to Marginal Annotations in the Greek Medical Papyri Nicola Reggiani Open Access Download PDF	133
Learning from Mistakes: Constructing Knowledge in Late Antique Mathematical Texts Courtney A. Roby Open Access Download PDF	155
The “Poetic Itch” and Numerical Maxims in the Talmud – An Inquiry into Factors of Knowledge Construction Monika Amsler Open Access Download PDF	189
Re-scaffolding a ‘Missing Chapter’ Lillian I. Larsen Open Access Download PDF	219
Grammar in the School of Diodore of Tarsus: An Institutional Context for the Transfer of Exegetical Knowledge Robert Edwards Open Access Download PDF	257
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	283
General Index Open Access Download PDF	285
Index Locorum Open Access Download PDF	293

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of late ancient education, mathematics, medicine, and rabbinic texts and culture
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 306
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 12
- Tables: 3
Keywords: Education; Cognition; Materiality; Epistemology

eBook

Published: April 3, 2023
ISBN: 9783111010311

Hardcover

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783110997637

Paperback

Planned Publication: October 21, 2024
ISBN: 9783111628011