Ivory plaque featuring scenes from the story of Joshua, Byzantine (900-1000 CE) [MET Museum].
Ivory plaque featuring scenes from the story of Joshua, Byzantine (900-1000 CE) [MET Museum].
Falcasantos’ Constantinople demonstrates how change and continuity stood in tension in late antique Constantinople.
Read MoreGraffito of Esmet-Akhom from Hadrian's Gate at Philae (394 CE) [Wikimedia].
Graffito of Esmet-Akhom from Hadrian's Gate at Philae (394 CE) [Wikimedia].
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination is a broad-ranging and accessible treatment of how late ancient writers engaged with pharaonic history and culture in the midst of the Christianization of Egypt.
Read MoreIn The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora, Jonathan Trotter offers a new reconstruction of the relationship between diaspora Jews and the Jerusalem temple that is both grounded in lived practices and informed by literary analysis.
Read MoreHow can we account for the seemingly contradictory perspectives of responses to empire and imperial subjugation in the Book of Revelation? Through the lenses of humor studies and trauma theory in postcolonial discourse, Sarah Emanuel’s innovative work addresses this question and demonstrates how comic is used as a mode of survival for the Jewish community of John’s Apocalypse.
Read MorePeter Paul Rubens, St. Gregory of Nazianzus (1621). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Source: Copyright Albright-Knox).
Peter Paul Rubens, St. Gregory of Nazianzus (1621). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Source: Copyright Albright-Knox).
Storin’s work, both monograph and translation, marks another excellent entry in the UC Press Christianity in Late Antiquity series. Taken together, these volumes will prove valuable not only to scholars of Gregory or ancient epistolography, but all those interested in the interdependent constructions of rhetoric, philosophy, and the self in late antiquity.
Read More“Close reading, suggests Rosen-Zvi, resembles micro-historical study since in both cases a close look at one detail reveals large social and cultural processes that cannot be seen from a wider perspective.”
Read More…[O]ne of the most valuable contributions are the plentiful insights throughout this volume that have implications for a wide variety of fields, ranging from antiquity to the medieval period. And, while there are no doubt plentiful insights with regard to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, a number of observations throughout this work also hold implications for the field of Ancient Mesopotamian religion and its relation to later traditions.
Read MoreKaye suggests that time as imagined in the BT is best represented by Wassily Kandinsky’s painting, Several Circles (1926). According to Kaye, the painting’s circles of various sizes and colors represent various moments; these moments, as circles, interact both temporally and spatially and are spread across the canvas non-linearly.
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Paula Fredriksen’s newest book attempts a difficult feat: to understand the first generation of Jesus followers, despite having to do so with an eclectic smattering of passionately biased evidence that also happens to have been cherished as sacred text by almost two thousand years of interpreters.
Read MoreAedicula for Aglibol and Malakbel (236 CE) [Image courtesy of the author]
Aedicula for Aglibol and Malakbel (236 CE) [Image courtesy of the author]
The curators of the exhibit and authors of this catalogue resist the urge to classify objects by these two great empires (“Roman” or “Parthian”) and, instead shift the focus to the local vicinity they reflect.
Read MoreAn exemplary conference volume for scholars of rabbinics, religious studies, and all those curious about these fields of study.
Read MoreRoman Votive Offering [Wikimedia Commons]
Roman Votive Offering [Wikimedia Commons]
As some of the most numerous, widespread, and striking objects associated with the practice of religion in the ancient world, anatomical votives have appeared in many studies of the classical and late antique Mediterranean.
Read MoreJewish Childhood in the Roman World provides a comprehensive review of the Palestinian rabbinic literature on the many facets of childhood.
Read MoreSt. Menas with two camels, Pilgrim flask found around Alexandria Egypt (ca. 6th-7th c. CE) [Wikimedia]
John Kampen has built a meritorious career in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament. In this book he makes an argument in which he deftly weaves together his expertise in each so as to study the gospel of Matthew as the work of a Jewish sect.
Read MoreJoseph Mallord William Turner, Rome from the Vatican (1820) Tate Modern [WikiArt]
Piet Mondriaan, Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue, and Black (1921) Kunstmuseum Den Haag [Wikimedia]
Georges Braque, Road near L'Estaque (1908) The Museum of Modern Art [Artstor]
Georges Braque, Road near L'Estaque (1908) The Museum of Modern Art [Artstor]
This collection of essays reflects a core assumption that Marcus shares with his scholarly contemporaries: the parting between Christianity and Judaism did not happen at one definite moment, but occurred in different places and at different times in different communities.
Read MoreCeiling of the Temple of Hathor within the complex of Denderah (Image courtesy of Wikimedia).
Ceiling of the Temple of Hathor within the complex of Denderah (Image courtesy of Wikimedia).
In Christianizing Egypt, David Frankfurter continues this trend. He examines by what standards scholars should dissect the process of Christian conversion in Egypt and investigate the continued presence of traditional Egyptian religious behaviors and practices.
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