Saint Thecla and the Wild Beasts (ca. 5th century, Egypt)
Saint Thecla and the Wild Beasts (ca. 5th century, Egypt)
Since the 1980s, the story and figure of Thecla have featured in vibrant currents in scholarship. This new publication brings a fresh perspective to Thecla’s depiction in light of social expectations for women in the Greco-Roman world.
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Read MoreSmoak argues that in writing the Priestly Blessing in the literary space of the book of Numbers, the authors – likely priests – found a novel way to solidify their ritual authority in blessing Israel.
Read MoreNeis’s book stands as a corrective to a long tradition that has assumed “a Jewish resistance to, or even incapacity for, vision” (p. 1).
Read MoreJohn Gager's Who Made Early Christianity? The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul makes the case for Paul's commitment to Judaism.
Read MoreIt shouldn’t take very long for the reader to recognize that a career’s worth of knowledge has been condensed and organized into this outstanding textbook—she had wanted to write this book for “more than twenty years” (p. xii).
Read MoreKate Wilkinson’s Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity argues that Christian ascetic modesty was challenging work.
Read MorePaul Kosmin’s Land of the Elephant Kings is an attempt to understand the royal ideology of the Seleucid dynasty, examining how this vast empire was constituted and imagined by its rulers.
Read MoreRemembering Biblical Figures in the Later Persian & Early Hellenistic Periods is a new edited volume examining the biblical texts through the theoretical lens of social or collective memory.
Read MoreIn Nomadic Text: A Theory of Biblical Reception History, Brennan Breed argues that the way we describe the Hebrew Bible’s original text and reception is fundamentally flawed.
Read MoreTribute Bearers, the Apadana Relief, Persepolis
Tribute Bearers, the Apadana Relief, Persepolis
In their new book, Pearce and Wunsch publish 103 tablets from Babylonia for the first time, dating from roughly the years 572-477 BCE, but mostly from the 6th century BCE
Read MoreG.W. Houston's Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity is a book about "everything that may be in a Roman library" written in order to "obtain a better understanding of several matters."
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