null / This is the Autumn 1996 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Jonathan Rose; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Philip A. Metzger. CONTENTS: SHARP ANNOUNCES NEW PRIZE FOR BEST PUBLICATION IN BOOK HISTORY; 1997 CONFERENCE AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: A FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS; NEW EDITORS, NEW ADDRESSES; A MANAGEABLE SCOPE?: THE HISTORY OF PRINT CULTURE IN NEW ZEALAND; CONFERENCE AIMS TO OPEN UP ACCESS TO PUBLISHERS' ARCHIVES; BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES I: BIBLIOGRAPHY COURSE AT BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY; BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES II: THE HISTORY OF LITERATE CULTURE; BOOK REVIEWS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; LECTURES; COURSES & SEMINARS; EXHIBITIONS; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; ON THE INTERNET; NOTES & QUERIES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: A MANAGEABLE SCOPE?: THE HISTORY OF PRINT CULTURE IN NEW ZEALAND, by Shef Rogers (pp. 2-3); BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES I: BIBLIOGRAPHY COURSE AT BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY, by Tom Davis (pp. 3-4); BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES II: THE HISTORY OF LITERATE CULTURE, by Charles Bazerman (pp. 4-6); BOOK REVIEWS, by James Raven (p. 6).

Masthead reads: Winter 1993-94 / This is the Winter 1993-94 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Jonathan Rose. CONTENTS: CENTER FOR BOOK HISTORY PROPOSED IN NEW YORK; UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PLANS BOOK HISTORY M.A. PROGRAM; ENGLISH BOOK AND PUBLISHING STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN; GUTENBERG EXHIBITION MOUNTED AT MORGAN LIBRARY; COURSES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; PUBLIC LECTURES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.

null / This is the Spring 2002 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: SHARP CONFERENCE; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; NATIONAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; RESEARCH NOTES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND COURSES; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: 10th Annual Conference, London, 10-13 July 2002 (SHARP CONFERENCE) (p. 1); Longman-History Today Prize (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); Current Book History Research in Finland, by Jyrki Hakapää (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (pp. 1-3); Improving Access to Historical Collections: The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), by Marian Lefferts (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES) (pp. 3-5); On Collecting and Indexing the Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1941, by Honor Ward (RESEARCH NOTES) (p. 5); The Birth of Gay Magazines in Post-War Japan, by Shingae Akitomo (RESEARCH NOTES) (pp. 5-6); Renaissance Society of America: SHARP@RSA, Toronto, 28-30 March 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Expanding Horizons: Print Cultures across the South Pacific, Dunedin, NZ, 10 September 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 6-7); 29th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 11-12 October 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 7); The History of Libraries in the United States, Bibliographical Society of America, Princeton University, Philadelphia, 11-13 April 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); 20th Annual Seminar on the History of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, Exeter University, UK, 23-25 July 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); 400th Anniversary of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, 8-20 September 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); Reese Fellowships in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 8-9); Book History at Texas A&M: A Workshop on the History of Books and Printing, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, 19-24 May 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 9); Books in American Lives 1830-1890, American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in American Culture, Worcester, MA, 9-13 June 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 9); Towards Book History in India, Organised by the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta in Association with the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, 8-9 February 2002, by Abhijit Gupta (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 9-10); BOOK REVIEWS, by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Juliet John, Andrew Gordon, Kristine Haugen, Chuck Johanningsmeier, Sharon Hamilton, Sharon Alker, J. Arthur Bond (pp. 10-14).

null / This is the Autumn 1999 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: IN MY VIEW: WHY DON'T WE HAVE ANY "SCHOOLS OF LIBRARY AND READING STUDIES?"; CROSSING THE LINE: PRINT CULTURE DOWN UNDER; OVERLAPPING BOUNDARIES CONFERENCE; READING CONFERENCE IN EDINBURGH; THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE BBT SEMINAR; THE AMERICAN PRINT MARKETPLACE: FROM PAMPHLETS TO PH.D. DISSERTATIONS OR, ONE WAY TO TEACH THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK TO GRADUATE STUDENTS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS; FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES; ESSAY AND MANUSCRIPT PRIZES; SEMINARS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; IN MEMORIAM: WILLIAM EVAN FREDEMAN; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW: WHY DON'T WE HAVE ANY "SCHOOLS OF LIBRARY AND READING STUDIES?", by Wayne A. Wiegand (pp. 1-2); OVERLAPPING BOUNDARIES CONFERENCE, by David Finkelstein (p. 3); READING CONFERENCE IN EDINBURGH, by Helen Williams (p. 4); THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE BBT SEMINAR, by Barry McKay (pp. 4-5); THE AMERICAN PRINT MARKETPLACE: FROM PAMPHLETS TO PH.D. DISSERTATIONS OR, ONE WAY TO TEACH THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK TO GRADUATE STUDENTS, by Paul Gutjahr (pp. 5-6); Expressionism and Modernity: Function and Meaning in German Expressionist Prints; Libraries and the Book Trade: The Formation of Collections in the Public Sphere from the 16th to the 20th Century (CONFERENCES) (p. 7); Chicago under Wraps: Dust Jackets from 1920-1950; Jock Elliott's Christmas Books (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 7-8); BOOK REVIEWS, by John Feather, Graham Jefcoate, Jonathan Rose, Kathleen Kamerick (pp. 10-14).

This is the Autumn 1994 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Jonathan Rose; Book Review Editor: Patrick Leary. CONTENTS: 1995 EDINBURGH CONFERENCE UPDATE: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS; SHARP WEIGHS PLANS TO EXPAND PUBLICATIONS PROGRAM; SCHOLARS BEGIN WORK ON A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AUSTRALIA; NEW BOOK HISTORY ENTERPRISES MOVE FORWARD IN SEVERAL NATIONS; THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF LITERATURE; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; NOTES & QUERIES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.

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I argue that some ancient Jewish sects, specifically the community at Qumran and the early Christians, did in fact write against, speak out against, and interpret ancient tests as being against their fellow Jews, the Temple, Jerusalem or all three. Given the time in which these occurred, I argue that those sects believed that the Roman Empire would be means in which their god would punish/destroy Jews that did not believe as they did, the Temple that did not represent what they thought it should, and Jerusalem as they believed it had become a sinful city. I examine the writings and persons of the Greek Bible. I examine specifics such as the Parable of the Tenants and demonstrate that this was delivered against Jewish leadership and the Olivet Discourse that, like the book of Jubilees, presents a series of tribulations that will fall on a wicked generation, specifically the one living in Jerusalem during the first century C.E. I also demonstrate how the motif of these writings affected the book of Revelation. I examine the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible and show how the author used them as allusions in regards to the Whore of Babylon that appear in the book of Revelation. In doing so, I demonstrate that the Whore of Babylon is correctly identified as the city of Jerusalem. Additionally I show that the author used Babylon, the ancient foe of Israel, as a metaphor to demonstrate what he believed Israel had become. Lastly, I examine the author, a man named John, and the social world he lived in and the time he wrote during. I demonstrate that the commonly held belief of persecution against the early Christians and the use of Roman religion, such as the imperial cult, has been over stated and has led not only to a misinterpretation of chapters 17 and 18 in the book of Revelation, but they have led to an overall misunderstanding of the book as a whole.