Die Textualisierung der Religion

This volume is a collection of essays on aspects of the textualization of religious traditions. Viewing the development of religions from the vantage point of media history, the authors explore key junctures in the unfolding of the YHWH religion, other ancient Near Eastern traditions and Egyptian religion, of Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism, and of Hinduism and Buddhism. This is done against the background of the orality/literacy debate in the humanities and the social sciences. Special attention is paid to the correlation between the rise of writing and the rise of Israelite monotheism.