For scholars interested in the study of Late Antiquity
Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 20 hours, 59 minutes agoThis essay explores how and why three early Christian figures–Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster–have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians’ ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]
Amit Gvaryahu deposited A “New” Fragment of Sifre Numbers, Wrocław I-F-205 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoA description and edition of a fragment of the early rabbinic work Sifre Numbers, miscatalogued as a different work, found in the university library, Wrocław.
James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days agoIt is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
Nikos Tsivikis deposited Beyond the Invisible Cities of Byzantium in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoFocusing on the use and abuse in the study of Byzantine archaeology and Urbanism of the idea of the “Invisible Cities” as introduced in literature by Italo Calvino, this article attempts to set a framework for understanding Byzantine cities within clear and scientifically defined analytical categories as part of a modernist agenda. At the same tim…[Read more]
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Nikos Tsivikis deposited Messene: a Bibliography on the Archaeology and History of the city in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoA work-in-progress, this is an extended bibliography on Messene covering the period from 1831 and up to today. It includes the excavation reports and archaeological/historical publications of ancient and byzantine Messene in Messenia, SW Peloponnese. Please send via mail or message any corrections, suggestions and additions.
Roland Steinacher deposited Das Christentum im frühen Europa in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoDas vandalische Afrika gilt als Musterbeispiel des „Kirchenkampfs“ zwischen
homöischen Barbaren und katholischen Römern. Kronzeugen sind Victor von Vita,
Fulgentius von Ruspe und Quodvultdeus von Karthago. Etwa 50 Jahre nach dem Ende
der Vandalenkönige inAfrika 533 kam es dagegen in Spanien zum Ausgleich zwischen
Katholiken und Homöer…[Read more]Cillian O'Hogan deposited MAXIMIANUS AND HIS POETRY – (A.) Franzoi Le Elegie di Massimiano. Testo, traduzione e commento. Note biografiche e storico-testuali. Appendix Maximiani a cura di P. Mastandrea e L. Spinazzè. (Supplementi di Lexis 68.) Pp. iv + 270. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2014. Paper, €60. ISBN: 978-90-256-1294-8. in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoBook review of new edition and translation of the poetry of Maximianus.
Cillian O'Hogan deposited Review of S. Schottenius Cullhed and M. Malm (eds), Reading Late Antiquity (Berlin 2018) in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoBook review of a recent book on the reception of late antiquity.
Reuven Kiperwasser deposited The Microcosmic Imaginary in Rabbinic Midrash in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months ago“The Microcosmic Imaginary in Rabbinic Midrash,” BeDarkhei Shalom, Studies in Jewish Thought Presented to Prof. Shalom Rosenberg, B. Ish-Shalom (ed.), Jerusalem: Beit Morasha, 205-207 (Hebrew
Cillian O'Hogan deposited Thirty Years of the ‘Jeweled Style’ in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoReview article on five recent books relating to late Latin poetry
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited דיני החבלות בתורת התנאים in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe Tannaitic Laws of Battery: Scripture and Halakhah
Amit Gvaryahu
Four laws in the Pentateuch discuss fights between people. The arrangement of these laws and their relationship to one another were debated in the Tannaitic academies. The school of Rabbi Ishmael read these laws as a single entity, each law “coming to teach things omitted” in…[Read more] -
Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review of: Katell Berthelot, Jonathan Price (ed.), In the Crucible of Empire: The Impact of Roman Citizenship upon Greeks, Jews and Christians. Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion, 21 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks agoA review of Katell Berthelot, Jonathan Price (ed.), In the Crucible of Empire: The Impact of Roman Citizenship upon Greeks, Jews and Christians. Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion, 21.
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Twisting words: does Halakhah really circumvent scripture? in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks agoabstract A foundational text in the study of Tannaitic Midrash and Halakhah, Sifre Deuteronomy 122 is a list of places where Halakhah ʿ qpt scripture. This word, ʿ qpt, has long been understood to mean ‘circumvent’, ‘bypass’ or ‘belie’, and the pericope has been read as a list of places where ‘Halakhah circumvents scripture’, and thus a testament…[Read more]
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James M. Harland deposited Imagining the Saxons in Late Antique Gaul in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 months agoPublished in Sächsische Leute und Länder Benennung und Lokalisierung von Gruppenidentitäten im ersten Jahrtausend, and a considerably expanded version of a paper delivered at the Internationales Sachsensymposion in Leipzig, 2015.
The article considers the literary representation of Saxons in the works of the late antique authors Sidonius Ap…[Read more]
Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Patrologia Graeca – Versiones Arabicae in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoThis is an enhanced compilation of relevant entries from Clavis Patrum Graecorum which was compiled by me (GS) for the “Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations” volume up to Nov. 2015. It is an embryonic version of what was later substantially enlarged and published as “A Bibliographical Guide to Arabic Patristic Translations and Related T…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months agoAn exploration of the paradoxical celebrity of ascetic renunciants in early Christianity, using the example of Simeon Stylites, the pillar saint.
Olivier Dufault deposited Review of Nicolaidis (ed.) Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week agoReview of Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by EFTHYMIOS NICOLAIDIS. Pp. 198, illus., index. Brepols: Turnhout. 2018. £72. ISBN: 978-2-503-58191-0.
Peter Martens deposited Response to Mark Edwards in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week agoMy essay highlights differences between how Edwards and I approach ancient sources and the scholarship on them. My response also provides a dossier of a dozen or so passages where Origen portrays paradise as a divine or incorporeal place, distinct from this earth, and as a residence for pre-existent rational creatures. Edwards denies such a portrait.
Rachel Rafael Neis deposited Interspecies and Cross-species Generation: in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoThis article treats late ancient rabbinic texts (ca. 1st-early 3rd cents. CE), reading them as biology, and following their ideas about the limits and possibilities of reproductive and species variation. I read sources from the tractates of Niddah, Kil’ayim, and Bekhorot, in the Mishnah and Toseta, as expressions of a science of generation, or a b…[Read more]
Dirk Kruisheer deposited A Bibliographical Clavis to the Works of Jacob of Edessa (revised and expanded) in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoD. Kruisheer, ‘A Bibliographical Clavis to the Works of Jacob of Edessa (revised and expanded)’, in B. ter Haar Romeny (ed.), Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day (Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden 18; Leiden: Brill, 2008), 265–293.
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