Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Material Aspects of Reading and Material Text Cultures -- Material Aspects of Rituals Beyond Their Instructions -- Scribal Production and Literacy at Qumran -- Scribal Habits and Scholarly Texts -- Reading Psalm and Prayer Manuscripts From Qumran -- Reading the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice -- Reading Material Features of Qumran Tefillin and Mezuzot -- Reading an Opisthograph at Qumran -- Codices des Typs C und die Anf�ange des Bl�atterns -- Ancient Jewish Greek Practices of Reading and Their Material Aspects -- Reading Early New Testament Manuscripts -- What Ancient Christian Manuscripts Reveal About Reading (and About Non-Reading) -- Reading Regularly -- Encountering the Grotesque -- Notes on Contributors -- Indices.

The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated to the Collaborative Research Center's main focus of research - that is, the materiality and presence of writing in non-typographic societies.

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