For scholars interested in the study of Late Antiquity
Rob Collins deposited Decline, collapse, or transformation? The case for the northern frontier of Britannia in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 days, 14 hours agoThis paper assesses the evidence for the collapse or otherwise of the northern frontier of Britannia, including Hadrian’s Wall, relative to received paradigms of ‘the end’ of Roman Britain.
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Rob Collins deposited Economic reduction or military reorganisation? Demolition and conversion of granaries in the northern frontier of Britannia in the later 4th century in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 days, 14 hours agoThis paper examines structural changes to stone-built granaries at fort sites along Hadrian’s Wall, with particular attention given to the latest phases of alterations that indicate a demolition or changed use of granary buildings.
Nathan Gibson deposited Biblia Arabica: An Update on the State of Research in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day agoThe aim of this contribution is to review some of the major areas of current research on the Arabic Bible, along with the factors and trends contributing to them. Also we present some of the tools that are currently under development in the Biblia Arabica team, Munich.
We provide here a very condensed survey of the transmission of traditions,…[Read more]
Nikos Tsivikis deposited Τελευταίοι εθνικοί στη Μεσσήνη του 4ου αι. μ.Χ. – Last Hellenes of Messene in the 4th c. AD in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day agoDuring the older excavation of Messene by Anastasios Orlandos a quite original smaller than life-size marble statue of a Roman emperor wearing a short tunic and holding in his left hand the orb had been located and dated to the 4th c. AD. Further exploration of the area by Petros Themelis in the 1990s unearthed a magnificent Roman urban domus of…[Read more]
Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review – Reverent Irreverence in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoBoth in terms of its content and its methodology, Pious Irreverence is a pioneering work. Weiss artfully employs all the tools of textual analysis developed over the last four decades of rabbinic scholarship and brings them to bear on TY, a largely neglected corpus. Tanhuma-Yelammedenu has never been studied as a work of theology, nor from a…[Read more]
Adam Rasmussen deposited “A Vessel Divinely Molded”: Basil of Caesarea on the Human Body in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThis paper has two parts. First, I examine Basil of Caesarea’s theological anthropology and show how he understands the human being as a body-soul unity. The body is the good instrument of the soul. It is marvelous because it has been molded by God’s own hands. In the second part, I examine what I call Basil’s theological physiology, which flows…[Read more]
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Adam Rasmussen deposited Basil of Caesarea’s Uses of Origen in His Polemic against Astrology in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoBasil of Caesarea, in his polemic against astrology (Homiliae in hexaemeron 6,5−7), makes direct, creative uses of Origen’s anti-astrological treatise (Philocalia 23). My argument is based on an identical context, namely the interpretation of Gen 1:14b, and five close similarities in content, some verbatim, between Basil’s sermon and Orige…[Read more]
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited “And Both are Equal”: Exegesis Creating Values in Ancient Jewish Texts in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week ago“And Both are Equal”: Exegesis Creating Values in Ancient Jewish Texts
Amit Gvaryahu
There are many gaps between the primary or literal interpretation of what is written in the Torah and the way the Sages interpreted it in midrashim, the Mishnah, and the Talmud. Many scholars see these gaps as a result of the Sages’ imposition of exter…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Human and Divine Justice in the Testament of Abraham in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 months agoPublished in The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone. Edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso, Matthias Henze, and William Adler (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2017
Rachel Neis deposited Embracing Icons: The Face of Jacob on the Throne of God in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoRachel Neis’ article treats Hekhalot Rabbati, a collection of early Jewish mystical traditions, and more specifically §§ 152–169, a series of Qedusha hymns. These hymns are liturgical performances, the highlight of which is God’s passionate embrace of the Jacob icon on his throne as triggered by Israel’s utterance of the Qedusha. §§ 152–1…[Read more]
Dominik Hagmann deposited Modeling Roman Rural Landscapes in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoThe Department of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna is currently investigating settlement processes and material culture in rural areas of the Roman province of Noricum by means of noninvasive survey methods. The aim is to create a new and widely accessible digital data base for different, tangible forms of rural settlement…[Read more]
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Dominik Hagmann deposited Modeling Roman Rural Landscapes in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoThe Department of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna is currently investigating settlement processes and material culture in rural areas of the Roman province of Noricum by means of noninvasive survey methods. The aim is to create a new and widely accessible digital data base for different, tangible forms of rural settlement…[Read more]
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Dominik Hagmann deposited Modeling Roman Rural Landscapes in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoThe Department of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna is currently investigating settlement processes and material culture in rural areas of the Roman province of Noricum by means of noninvasive survey methods. The aim is to create a new and widely accessible digital data base for different, tangible forms of rural settlement…[Read more]
Gregor M. Schwarb deposited ‹al-istiṭāʿa› between kalām and falsafa in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months agoSurveys the Begriffsgeschichte of istiṭāʿah (< τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν) in antique and late antique philosophical and theological/patristic texts, the Syriac&Arabic reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, Alexander of Aphrodisias's Maqāla fī l-istiṭāʿa, Nemesius of Emesa's K. Ṭabīʿat al-insān, and early Christian-Arabic literature, and…[Read more]
Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Theories of will and action in late antique Christian thought and early Muslim kalām: On the Arabic translation(s) of Nemesius of Emesa’s Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου and related texts in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months agoDiscusses the Graeco-Syriac-Arabic transmission of Nemesius of Emesa’s Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου and related texts. The focus is on the notions of istiṭāʿah (τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν), irāda, qaṣd and ikhtiyār (προαίρεσις) in philosophical theories of action, the reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, and their historical and conceptual relati…[Read more]
Gregor M. Schwarb deposited ‹al-istiṭāʿa› between kalām and falsafa in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months agoSurveys the Begriffsgeschichte of istiṭāʿah (< τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν) in antique and late antique philosophical and theological/patristic texts, the Syriac&Arabic reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, Alexander of Aphrodisias's Maqāla fī l-istiṭāʿa, Nemesius of Emesa's K. Ṭabīʿat al-insān, and early Christian-Arabic literature, and…[Read more]
Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Theories of will and action in late antique Christian thought and early Muslim kalām: On the Arabic translation(s) of Nemesius of Emesa’s Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου and related texts in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months agoDiscusses the Graeco-Syriac-Arabic transmission of Nemesius of Emesa’s Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου and related texts. The focus is on the notions of istiṭāʿah (τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν), irāda, qaṣd and ikhtiyār (προαίρεσις) in philosophical theories of action, the reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, and their historical and conceptual relati…[Read more]
James Walters deposited Where Soul Meets Body: Narsai’s Depiction of the Soul-Body Relationship in Context in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months, 4 weeks agoPre-publication draft (not intended for circulation or citation) of a contribution to a forthcoming edited volume on Narsai of Nisibis. Any comments, suggestions, or corrections are welcome (email to jwalters@rc.edu).
Cillian O'Hogan deposited An Intertextual Journey in Prudentius, Peristephanon 9 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week agoThis paper investigates the influence of the Aeneid on the ninth poem of Prudentius’ Peristephanon. In the poem, Prudentius is on his way to Rome when he discovers the tomb of St Cassian, and an account of the saint’s passion follows. The framing narrative employs some of the conventions of pilgrimage literature, while the poem as a whole con…[Read more]
Chance Bonar deposited Review of Matthias Konradt, Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series undertook this translation of a monumental synthetic study of ecclesiology in the Gospel of Matthew by notable German scholar Matthias Konradt. Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew is a meticulously researched and provocative challenge to latent anti-Semitism and…[Read more]
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