For scholars interested in the study of Late Antiquity
Andrew Jacobs deposited Christianizing the Roman Empire: Jews and the Law from Constantine to Justinian, 300–600 CE in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 days, 18 hours ago
The circulation and republication of Christian Roman laws on Jews and Judaism gives us a window into the ways imperial attention to the Jewish “other” – sometimes benevolent, sometimes punitive – created multiple paths for the Christianization of the Roman Empire. Laws on economic status, social interaction, and religious custom ultimately produce…[Read more]
Andrew Jacobs deposited Christians, Jews, and Judaism in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, c. 150–400 CE in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 days, 18 hours ago
The institutional, social, and theological rise of an imperial-episcopal orthodoxy in the 4th-century Roman Empire transformed the productive, if not always genial, scriptural and ritual interactions among Jews and Christians in previous centuries into a discourse of theological difference, enabling violence and exclusion.
Lloyd Graham deposited The Moon Card of the Tarot Deck May Reprise an Ancient Amuletic Design Against the Evil Eye in the group
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This paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design aga…[Read more]
John Penniman deposited Fed to Perfection: Mother’s Milk, Roman Family Values, and the Transformation of the Soul in Gregory of Nyssa in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
Prompted by Michel Foucault’s observation that “salvation is first of all essentially subsistence,” this essay explores Gregory of Nyssa’s discussion of Christian spiritual formation as a kind of salvific and transformative feeding of infants. This article argues that the prominent role of nourishment—and specifically breast milk—in Gregory’s t…[Read more]
John Penniman deposited The Health-Giving Cup: Cyprian’s Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine in the group
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Cyprian’s Epistle 63 represents the earliest extant account of the proper meaning and administration of the eucharistic cup. Against a group of Christians who were taking only water, Cyprian argues that wine is necessary for the ritual to be effective. While there has been much discussion surrounding the biblical references marshaled by Cyprian t…[Read more]
John Penniman deposited Blended with the Savior: Gregory of Nyssa’s Eucharistic Pharmacology in the group
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Humankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. As a result, the toxin of sin and death has been blended into the body and soul of each person, dispersing itself throughout the component parts of their nature. If eating and drinking initiated the spiritual and physical…[Read more]
John Penniman deposited How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography in the group
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Review of Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
John Penniman deposited Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within in the group
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A review of the 2015 novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, by Alexandra Kleeman
John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions in the group
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Review of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)
John Penniman deposited “George Steiner” from the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine in the group
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Encyclopedia Entry
Travis Proctor deposited Hospitality, not Honors: Portraits and Patronage in the Acts of John in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
In this article, I examine how the apocryphal Acts of John depicts wealthy Christian
converts as part of the “Christianization” of Ephesus. I note how the Acts of John
uses its portrayal of leading citizens not only to critique, but to preserve and
adapt prevailing expectations surrounding Greco-Roman cultic patronage. My
analysis com…[Read more]Travis Proctor deposited Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The city of Ephesus experienced a marked civic transformation in Late Antiquity. After having centered its settlements and economic fortunes on its proximity to a deep-water harbor for over a millennium, late antique Ephesus gradually shifted to an inland, fortified settlement on Ayasoluk Hill. While several factors undoubtedly informed this civic…[Read more]
Lloyd Graham deposited The iconography on the Paphos IAEW-amulet may draw upon the apotropaic ‘All-Suffering Eye’ motif in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The paper proposes that the Egyptian-style design on a 5-6th century CE magical amulet discovered at Nea Paphos in Cyprus (Inv. no. PAP/FR 44/2011) draws upon an apotropaic design against the Evil Eye known as the “All-Suffering Eye,” which dates back to the time of the early Roman Empire and is common on Byzantine “Holy Rider” medallions. [No…[Read more]
Chance Bonar deposited 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John: A Byzantine Question-and-Answer Dialogue in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Introduction, Greek text, and English translation of 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John, a Byzantine question-and-answer dialogue between Abraham and John set after Jesus’s ascension.
Mark Beumer deposited PhD-Presentation ‘From Asklepios to Kosmas? Ritual Dynamics of Temple Slee in Late Antiquity’ in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
Presentation PhD-project
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz deposited The Cappadocians (Draft for Oxford Handbook of Apophatic Theology) in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
[This draft is for the Oxford Handbook of Apophatic Theology.] This chapter identifies an apophatic theology common to the three Cappadocian Fathers—Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa. The central theme of their apophatic theology is the incomprehensibility of God. God, they argue, is known under multiple concepts and n…[Read more]
Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
This essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
Andrew Jacobs deposited Gender, Conversion, and the End of Empire in the Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
The seventh-century apocalyptic dialogue text Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati (“Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized”) depicts forcibly baptized Jews coming to terms with their new situation in hidden meetings led by Jacob. At a key moment in the text, the last voices of Jewish resistance belong to the wife and mother-in-law of one of the dialogue…[Read more]
Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Ascetic Leader in Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
In this essay, I consider the ideal ascetic leader depicted in the Life of Moses attributed to Gregory of Nyssa: that leader is not a bishop, but a leader who has more experience with the day-to-day struggles of monks, particularly the kind of struggles described by Evagrius and writers influenced by him.
Alex Woolf deposited British Ethnogenesis: a Late Antique Story in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
This chapter will deal with the origin of the people known as the Britons as defined under the headword ‘Briton, n.1. A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, and in later times spec. Strathclyde, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany’ in the OED, rather than the neologistic sense…[Read more]
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