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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The practice of the text
  • Ritual manuals : exegetical hermeneutics and the re-embodiment of antiquity
  • Wedding correspondence and nuptial songs : writing as cultural capital and text as ritual object
  • Calendars, almanacs, miracle tales, and medical texts : cosmic cycles and the liminal affairs of man
  • Legal codes, verdicts, and contracts : universal order and local practice
  • Conclusion: Texts and tombs, ritual and history.