Reading slowly: a Festschrift for Jens E. Braarvig

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.

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 Qurʼān: 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 VinayaTorkel 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 TaiwanJan Terje Faarlund: Preposition Stranding and other Anglo-Norse Syntactic Phenomena; Stephan Guth: Arab(ic) Emotions -- Back to the Roots!; Christoph Harbsmeier: The (Chinese) Emperor…