For scholars interested in the study of Late Antiquity
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 1 month 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 1 month, 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 1 month, 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 1 month, 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 1 month, 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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Dirk Kruisheer deposited Ephrem, Jacob of Edessa, and the Monk Severus. An Analysis of Ms. Vat. Syr. 103, ff. 1–72 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoD. Kruisheer, ‘Ephrem, Jacob of Edessa, and the Monk Severus. An Analysis of Ms. Vat. Syr. 103, ff. 1–72’, in R. Lavenant (ed.), Symposium Syriacum VII (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 256; Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1998), 599–605.
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Dirk Kruisheer deposited Reconstructing Jacob of Edessa’s Scholia in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoD. Kruisheer, ‘Reconstructing Jacob of Edessa’s Scholia’, in J. Frishman and L. Van Rompay (eds.), The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation. A Collection of Essays (Traditio Exegetica Graeca 5; Leuven: Peeters, 1997), 187–196.
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Dirk Kruisheer deposited [Review of] H.G.B. Teule (ed. and transl.), Gregory Barhebraeus, Ethicon (Mēmrā I) (CSCO 534, 535, Syr. 218, 219; Leuven: Peeters, 1993) in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoD. Kruisheer, [Review of] H.G.B. Teule (ed. and transl.), Gregory Barhebraeus, Ethicon (Mēmrā I) (CSCO 534, 535, Syr. 218, 219; Leuven: Peeters, 1993), Bibliotheca Orientalis 53.5/6 (September-December 1996), 815-818.
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Dirk Kruisheer deposited Theodore bar Koni’s Ktābā d-’Eskolyon as a Source for the Study of Early Mandaeism in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoD. Kruisheer, ‘Theodore bar Koni’s Ktābā d-’Eskolyon as a Source for the Study of Early Mandaeism’, Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap “Ex Oriente Lux” (Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society “Ex Oriente Lux”) 33 (1993-1994), 151-169.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity 2 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 months agoWriting Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited “All that is in the Settlement” : Humans, Likeness, and Species in the Rabbinic Bestiary in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago***For a copy of the article please write to RNEIS@umich.edu***
While biologists argue about the limits and definition of a species, the urge to cluster and distinguish among the plenitude of lifeforms that populates the planet remains. Contemporary concerns about attempts to clone monkeys and to engineer human-porcine chimeras point to…[Read more]
Amit Gvaryahu deposited Book Note | Pantheon in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoA review of Pantheon by Jörg Rüpke
James Walters deposited Sleep of the Soul and Resurrection of the Body: Aphrahat’s Anthropology in Context in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months agoThe fourth-century Syriac corpus known as the Demonstrations, attributed to Aphrahat, the Persian Sage, provides a unique window into the early development of Christianity among Syriac-speaking communities. Occasionally these writings attest to beliefs and practices that were not common among other contemporaneous Christian communities, such as…[Read more]
Ellen Muehlberger deposited Angel in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months agoA reflection on what notions of angels suggest about how late ancient people knew the world and its inhabitants.
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Will of Others in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months agoScholarly reflections on the concept of the will as it is articulated in late ancient texts have centered on the male individual and the difficulties he faces as he tries to train or direct his intentions. By contrast, in this article we seek to explore late ancient concepts and negotiations of the will by considering a cluster of ancient Jewish…[Read more]
Roland Steinacher deposited Gruppen und Identitäten. Gedanken zur Bezeichnung „vandalisch“ in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoZwischen dem 5. und der Mitte des 6. Jahrhunderts bestand das Regnum der Vandalen und Alanen wie eine Reihe berberischer Territorien im römischen Nordafrika, welches sich in der althistorischen, mediävistischen und archäologischen Forschung zusehends als Testfall für ein besseres Verständnis der Umgestaltung der römischen Welt in Spätantike und Fr…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoWe must, first of all, ask what a barbarian is or could have been in our sources. There were different kinds of barbarians, based upon the Roman and Greek ethnographic tradition and view of geography. Greek writers defined identities of human societies in the known world and bequeathed ethnonyms. Since the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., these…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited The So-called Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum: A Sixth-century African Addition to Prosper Tiro’s Chronicle? in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoThis essay will show, however, that the text is not linked to diplomas, but belonged to an African version of Prosper’s chronicle. I will propose a new edition, which will put the text back in its original context. Rather than looking for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ texts according to 19th-century categories, I will try to analyze the specific character…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Vom Ketzerkönig zum christianissimus rex. Politische Dimensionen der homöischen Christologie: Afrika im 5. und 6. Jahrhundert mit einem Ausblick nach Spanien in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months 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 in Afrika 533 kam es in Spanien zum Ausgleich zwischen Katholiken und Homöern. Die westgot…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Who is the Barbarian? Considerations on the Vandal Royal Title in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months agoThe Vandal royal title Rex Vandalorum et Alanorum is known from the reign of king Huneric (477-484) from two decrees preserved in Victor of Vita’s History of the Vandal persecution. This catholic polemic pamphlet itself derives from the eighties or nineties of the fifth century. As traditional diplomatics throughout the 19th and 20th centuries c…[Read more]
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