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The organization and use of documentary deposits in the Near East from Ancient to Medieval times: Libraries, archives, book collections and genizas.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The organization and use of documentary deposits in the Near East from Ancient to Medieval times: Libraries, archives, book collections and genizas./
Author:	du Toit, Jaqueline Susann.
Description:	218 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 3887.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Library Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ85701
ISBN:	0612857018

The organization and use of documentary deposits in the Near East from Ancient to Medieval times: Libraries, archives, book collections and genizas.
du Toit, Jaqueline Susann.

The organization and use of documentary deposits in the Near East from Ancient to Medieval times: Libraries, archives, book collections and genizas. - 218 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 3887.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2002.

A multidisciplinary approach is utilized to assess the organization and use of ancient and medieval Near Eastern textual deposits. An elaborate survey of the published material in ancient Near Eastern studies and library and archival studies indicates a general and pervasive insensitivity to and misuse of key terminological constructs. The indistinct portrayal of the nature of ancient libraries and archives is identified as of particular concern; as well as a widespread disregard for the recognition of textual collections older than the famed Library of Alexandria. This dissertation endeavours to indicate the presence of distinct textual collective units in the ancient Near Eastern context on equal footing with their much later counterparts and more broadly defined than the traditional library and archive, to include entities such as the geniza, building and foundation deposits, and so forth. Furthermore, the ancient temple library, as a restricted and well-regulated collective entity, is suggested as representative of literary standardization in the Near East, and the canonization process of the Hebrew Bible, in particular. Ancient archives are attested as equally prevalent textual units, clearly distinguishable from adjunct textual deposits, often loosely, but incorrectly, termed "archives" in modern scholarly discourse. In conclusion, this dissertation reconsiders the status of the two traditionally most valued ancient textual entities, the Library of Assurbanipal and the Library of Alexandria, and concludes that these entities are atypical examples of ancient textual collections. As closest claimants to the improbable and often religiously imbued ideal of universal collection of information, these libraries erroneously became the impossible standards by which all ancient collections were measured and found wanting. As alternate, the applicability of the theoretical constructs proposed in the earlier part of this dissertation, such as the introduction of an information theory continuum and the archival approach to the understanding and management of ancient textual deposits, are suggested as of vital importance to the realignment of traditional scholarly discourse on ancient textual deposits to accommodate present-day archaeological and scientific realities regarding these most important by-products of the invention of writing.

ISBN: 0612857018Subjects--Topical Terms:

881164
Library Science.

The organization and use of documentary deposits in the Near East from Ancient to Medieval times: Libraries, archives, book collections and genizas.
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