TY - BOOK ID - 17184424 TI - Sacred words : orality, literacy, and religion AU - Lardinois, André Pierre Marie Hubert AU - Blok, Josine Henriëtte AU - Poel, Marc G. M. Van Der AU - International conference on orality and literacy in the Ancient world PY - 2011 VL - 332 8 SN - 9789004194120 9004194126 9789004214217 9004214216 1283161133 9781283161138 9786613161130 6613161136 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Religious literature KW - Communication KW - Religious aspects KW - Greece KW - Rome KW - Religion KW - Littérature religieuse KW - Aspect religieux KW - Grèce KW - Literature KW - Bible as literature KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - Griechenland KW - Hellas KW - Yaṿan KW - Vasileion tēs Hellados KW - Hellēnikē Dēmokratia KW - République hellénique KW - Royaume de Grèce KW - Kingdom of Greece KW - Hellenic Republic KW - Ancient Greece KW - Ελλάδα KW - Ellada KW - Ελλάς KW - Ellas KW - Ελληνική Δημοκρατία KW - Ellēnikē Dēmokratia KW - Elliniki Dimokratia KW - Grecia KW - Grčija KW - Hellada KW - اليونان KW - يونان KW - al-Yūnān KW - Yūnān KW - 希腊 KW - Xila KW - Греция KW - Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Religious literature - Congresses KW - Communication - Religious aspects - Congresses KW - Greece - Religion - Congresses KW - Rome - Religion - Congresses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17184424 AB - A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish, starting with the Sibylline books and the Annales Maximi of the Roman priests and culminating in the canonical gospels of the Christians. It is the aim of this volume to modify this view or, at least, to challenge it. Surveying the variety of ways in which different types of texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient Greek and Roman religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were in use for both Greek and Roman state and private religions. ER -