| ISBN |
9464270454 (softcover) |
| 9789464270457 (softcover) |
| Meeting Name |
Academic Consumption of Illicit Antiquities (Conference) (2021 : Universitetet i Agder) |
| Title |
Variant scholarship : ancient texts in modern contexts / edited by Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel & Josephine Munch Rasmussen |
| Publisher |
Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2023 |
| Physical desc. |
248 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
Papers presented the workshop Academic Consumption of Illicit Antiquities, held 24 to 26 March 2021, at the University of Agder, Norway, with two additional chapters. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Variant scholarship: ancient texts in modern contexts / Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel and Josephine Munch Rasmussen -- Part one: Ancient texts. Disciplinary pitfalls: how good philology can mask bad provenance / Nils H. Korsvoll -- Provenance and the Dead Sea Scrolls: five examples / Arstein Justnes -- Performing papyrology: cartonnage, discovery and provenance / Roberta Mazza -- The Ilves Collection: a Finnish manuscript collector and the academic facilitators / Rick Bonnie -- Noxious scholarship? the study and publication of First Sealand dynasty cuneiform tablets / Neil Brodie -- Consuming Palmyra / Michael Press -- Ethical guidelines for publishing ancient texts / Patty Gerstenblith -- The trouble with texts / Morag M. Kersel -- Part two: The value of forgeries for historical research / Christa Wirth and Josephine M. Rasmussen -- Someone else's manuscripts: the ethics of textual scholarship / Liv Ingeborg Lied -- Between representation and the real: the forgeries of Constantine Simonides / Rachel Yuen-Collingridge -- Provenance: genocide: the transfer of Armenian sacred objects to art collections / Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh -- Digitizing manuscripts and the politics of extraction / Raha Rafii. |
| Subject |
Manuscripts -- Congresses |
| Manuscripts -- Collections -- Congresses |
| Manuscripts -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses |
| Manuscripts -- Provenance |
| Transmission of texts -- Congresses |
| Learning and scholarship -- Congresses |
| Cultural property -- Protection -- Congresses |
| Archaeological thefts -- Congresses |
| Antiques trade -- Congresses |
| Black market -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Brodie, Neil 1954- editor |
| Kersel, Morag M. 1964- editor |
| Munch Rasmussen, Josephine editor |
