For scholars interested in the study of Late Antiquity
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Nikos Tsivikis deposited Messene: a Bibliography on the Archaeology and History of the city v.01/12/2022 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks 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.
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoReview of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780691199290. $45.00.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “Coloured by the Nature of Christianity”: Nock’s Invention of Religion and Ex-Jews in Late Antiquity in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoIt is my modest goal in this essay to trace how Nock uses conversion to produce religion(s) and then to explore its similarities to and differences from an analogous construction of religion-through-conversion in late antiquity.
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited REVIEW OF BENJAMIN PORAT, JUSTICE FOR THE POOR: THE PRINCIPLES OF WELFARE REGULATIONS, FROM BIBLICAL LAW TO RABBINIC LITERATURE in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoBenjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Gesetze gegen den Polytheismus zwischen Konstantin I. und Theodosius I. – Beobachtungen zu spätantiken kaiserlichen Verfügungen in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoIn gewissem Sinne ist der Befehl zur allgemeinen Zwangstaufe im Codex Justinianus Abschluss einer beinahe 200-jährigen Entwicklung. Im Folgenden werden einzelne Stränge der kaiserlichen Gesetzgebung zwischen Konstantin I. und Theodosius I. besprochen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem westlichen Reichsteil. Allein die schiere Menge kaiserlicher B…[Read more]
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Evina Stein(ova) deposited Early Medieval Latin Manuscripts Transmitting the Text of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville [excel datasheet] in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoThis excel file contains structured and formalized data about all surviving and identified early medieval Western manuscripts containing the text of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, fully or partially. It records information about the place of origin, provenance, preservation, the date of origin, material properties, script, content, the…[Read more]
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Evina Stein(ova) deposited Annotation of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in Its Early Medieval Context in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoThis article provides an overview of the annotated pre-1200 manuscripts of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville and discusses the nature and character of the annotation of this work. It shows that the Etymologiae was annotated principally in the early Middle Ages. The glossing took place in three contexts: in the insular world, perhaps in the…[Read more]
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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 8 months, 1 week agoThe 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]
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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 8 months, 1 week agoThe 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.
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Lloyd Graham deposited The Moon Card of the Tarot Deck May Reprise an Ancient Amuletic Design Against the Evil Eye in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoThis 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]
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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 10 months, 2 weeks agoPrompted 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]
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John Penniman deposited The Health-Giving Cup: Cyprian’s Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoCyprian’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]
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John Penniman deposited Blended with the Savior: Gregory of Nyssa’s Eucharistic Pharmacology in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoHumankind, 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]
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John Penniman deposited How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoReview of Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
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John Penniman deposited Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoA review of the 2015 novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, by Alexandra Kleeman
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John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoReview of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)
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John Penniman deposited “George Steiner” from the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoEncyclopedia Entry
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Travis Proctor deposited Hospitality, not Honors: Portraits and Patronage in the Acts of John in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week agoIn 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
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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 1 year, 5 months agoThe 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]
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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 1 year, 5 months agoThe 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]
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