Learned Antiquity: Scholarship and Learning in the NE, Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West Book

	Preface and Acknowledgements
	Introduction
	Contributors
	The Scientific Revolution of 700 B.C.	1
	Berossos and the Mesopotamian Temple as Centre of Knowledge during the Hellenistic Period	13
	The Gospels and Cognitive Science	25
	Bridging the Gulf between Transcendence and Immanence in Late Antiquity	37
	Talmudic Tradition in a Changing Society	53
	Between Tertullian and Vincentius Lirinensis: On the Concept constantia veritatis and other 'Christian' Influences on Solinus	63
	The Corpus iuris civilis, Codification and the Encyclopedia of Legal Knowledge	81
	Between Literary Tradition and Culture Change: The Poetic and Documentary Production of Dioscorus of Aphrodite	101
	Dioscorus and the Law	115
	A World Full of the Word: The Biblical Learning of Dioscorus	135
	Literary Culture in Sixth-Century Egypt	147
	Theology and Medicine in Jundishapur: Cultural Change in the Nestorian School Tradition	163
	Carolingian Bishops and Christian Antiquity: Distance from the Past, Canon-Formation, and Imperial Power	175
	The Study of Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis in the Ninth Century	185
	Bibliography	195
	Index	219