Reading Slowly

A Festschrift for Jens E. Braarvig

Lutz Edzard, Jens W. Borgland, Ute Hüsken, Lutz Edzard, Jens W. Borgland, Ute Hüsken

• Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9783447109642
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783447197281
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

"Reading Slowly" contains contributions from a variety of fields as diverse as Buddhist Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Indology, East Asia Studies, Sinology, Classical Studies and Nordic Studies, all focused in some way on the importance of philological scholarship for understanding history, culture, religion, language and law. Although their objects of study, source language(s), media, focus and research questions are different, the essays in this volume are firmly bound together by the philological method - in the broadest sense of the term - and the scholarship of Jens E. Braarvig, whose vast scope of interest and knowledge is reflected in the breadth of this Festschrift. With contributions dealing directly with sources in languages such as Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Hurrian, Korean, Latin, Greek and Old Norse, preserved on materials such as birch bark and paper manuscripts, clay tablets, wood slabs, printed editions, and modern day street signs, this volume is not only a homage to the breadth of Jens Braarvig's scholarship, but also a demonstration of the importance of language proficiency and philology for the humanities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Titel
• Imprint
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Laudatio
• Silje Susanne Alvestad: O. Nova 546: The Uppsala Manuscript of "Maḳbūl-i ʿārif" (1631)
• Christoph Anderl: Metaphors of “Sickness and Remedy” in Early Chán Texts from Dūnhuáng
• Øivind Andersen: Homer’s Sirens
• Stefan Baums: A New Gāndhārī Document from Niya
• Amund Bjørsnøs: Jāhilliya and Rahbāniyya in the Qurʾān: A Philological Essay
• Jens Wilhelm Borgland: Devadatta and the Extracurricular Ascetic Practices: Some Highlights from the Story of the First Buddhist Schism as Told in the Saṃghabhedavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya
• Torkel Brekke: Public and Private Violence in the Legal Literature of India
• Siglinde Dietz: Fragments of the "Āśvalāyanasūtra"
• Charles DiSimone: An Unidentified Āgama Quotation and the Beginning of the "Prasādanīya-sūtra"
• Lutz Edzard: Script as a Medium of Linguistic and Cultural Features: The Case of Jewish Languages
• Halvor Eifring: The Life of a Dead Language Classical Chinese on Public Signs in Taiwan
• Jan Terje Faarlund: Preposition Stranding and other Anglo-Norse Syntactic Phenomena
• Stephan Guth: Arab(ic) Emotions – Back to the Roots!
• Christoph Harbsmeier: The (Chinese) Emperor’s New Clothes
• Paul Harrison: A Reliable Witness? On the Tibetan Translation of the "Śikṣāsamuccaya"
• Jens-Uwe Hartmann: Which "Daśottarasūtra"? A Curious Fragment and its Manifold Problems
• Ute Hüsken: Translation and Transcreation: Monastic Practice in Transcultural Settings
• Janne Bondi Johannessen: Enhancing Bibliotheca Polyglotta with Glossa: A Suggestion
• Bjarte Kaldhol: Hurrian Personal Names from Neo-Assyrian Tušhan
• Per Kværne: Western Reflections on ‘Oral’ and ‘Folk’ Literature in the Study of Ancient Tibetan Texts
• Janice Leoshko: Drawing the Line: On Translation and the Art of William Hodges
• Mikael Males: Pseudo-Remigius and the Old Icelandic "Barbarismus:" A Pilot Study
• Kazunobu Matsuda: A Short Note on the Compound Abhūtaparikalpa in the "Bodhisattvapiṭakasūtra"
• Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo: Applied History of American Linguistics and Literacy
• Shizuka Sasaki: Who Used the Sarvāstivāda Vinaya and the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya?
• Gregory Schopen: On Monks and Emergencies: The Brahmanical Principle of "Āpad" in a Buddhist Monastic Code
• Watanabe Shōgo: The Origins of the Idea of Three Vehicles in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras
• Jonathan Silk and Imre Galambos: An Early Manuscript Fragment of Dharmarakṣa’s Translation of the *Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodana
• Peter Skilling: Sāgaramati-paripṛcchā Inscriptions from Kedah, Malaysia
• Vladimir Tikhonov: The Concept of Nation in the Communist Usage in 1920–30s’ Korea
• Claus Peter Zoller: A Little Known Form of Untouchability in the Central Himalayas
• List of Publications of Jens E. Braarvig