Canonisation as Innovation. Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE
Damien Agut-Labordère and Miguel John Versluys (dir.), Canonisation as Innovation. Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2022 Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish…