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List of contributors Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1: A.J. BERKOVITZ AND MARK LETTENEY, "AUTHORITY IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORIOGRAPHY" The Problem History Beyond Authority Authorship and Authority Authority and the Law Transmission Beyond Authority Conclusion CHAPTER 2: HINDY NAJMAN, "READING BEYOND AUTHORITY" The Authority Paradigm in Seconding Sinai Philology Beyond Authority: The Case of Homer AUTHORSHIP AND AUTHORITY CHAPTER 3: MARK LETTENEY, "AUTHENTICITY AND AUTHORITY: THE CASE FOR DISMANTLING A DUBIOUS CORRELATION" Reading Councils Reading Acts The Unreliability of Acts The Chorus at Chalcedon The Hand of the Editor The Unreliability of Acts (Continued) Resistive Readings and an Institutionalized Suspicion of Documents Another layer of reading: Chalcedon at Constantinople Christos Epistolographos A dissenting opinion Conclusion CHAPTER 4: MATTHEW D. C. LARSEN, "CORRECTING THE GOSPEL: PUTTING THE TITLES OF THE GOSPELS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT" Didymus Chalkenturus and the Personal and City Editions of The Iliad Galen and the Correcting Literary Activities of Mnemon of Side 2 Maccabees 2:13 and Nehemiah’s records Gospel Texts and the Kat’ Andra Formula Irenaeus and "gospel authorship" Conclusion CHAPTER 5: AJ BERKOVITZ, "BEYOND ATTRIBUTION AND AUTHORITY: THE CASE OF PSALMS IN RABBINIC HERMENEUTICS" Identity of Author: Asaph as Case-Study Compositional Circumstances of Psalmist Authorship and Historical Anchoring Conclusion AUTHORITY AND THE LAW CHAPTER 6: MARIA DOERFLER, "GLIMPSES FROM THE MARGINS: RE-TELLING LATE ANCIENT HISTORY AT THE EDGES OF THE LAW" The Apostolic Past in the Didascalia Apostolorum Glimpses of Late Antiquity in the Canonical Writings of ‘Abdīshō‘ bar Brīkhā History from the Margins of the Law in Syriac Christian Writings CHAPTER 7: JONATHAN A. POMERANZ, "CONCEALING THE LAW: THE LIMITS OF LEGAL PROMULGATION AMONG THE RABBIS OF BABYLONIA" Rabbinic Teaching to Non-Rabbis: The Absence of Civil Law Exclusive Legal Knowledge and the Advantages of Sages in Court Concealing the Law and Judicial Discretion Textual Authority without Textual Transmission Legal Flexibility: An Ancient Near Eastern Tradition Conclusion AUTHORITY AND TRANSMISSION CHAPTER 8: EVA MROCZEK, "TRUTH AND DOUBT IN MANUSCRIPT DISCOVERY NARRATIVES" Find Stories as Authority Find Stories Beyond Authority CHAPTER 9: WINRICH LÖHR, "THE ORTHODOX TRANSMISSION OF HERESY" 190 Irenaeus of Lyon, Against the Heresies Tertullian, Against the Valentinians Hippolytus of Rome, Refutation of all Heresies A provisional conclusion Pirating Heretical Texts in the Defense of Orthodoxy: Epiphanius of Salamis and Augustine Epiphanius, Aetius, and dueling editions Augustine as editor of Pelagius Conclusion CHAPTER 10: SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ, "CONSUMING TEXTS: WOMEN AS RECIPIENTS AND TRANSMITTERS OF ANCIENT TEXTS" Rabbinic Texts and Traditions The Soṭah Ritual, the Transmission of Torah, and the Consumption of Biblical Texts The Transmission of the Soṭah Text by a Woman Food Consumption and Female Transmission of Rabbinic Knowledge Christian Texts and Traditions Women as Readers and Transmitters of Written Texts Reading as Eating Conclusions: Every corpus has a corpus EPILOGUE: C. M. CHIN: READING WITHOUT AUTHORITY Index