By focusing on known dynamics of memory and archaeological evidence, Pioske brings together sometimes-disparate methodological considerations to make a persuasive case for how one might engage in a historically and theoretically responsible way with the knowledge claims made in early Hebrew texts.
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Canaletto, Rome: The Arch of Constantine (1742) Royal Collection [Wikimedia].
Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?
[H]is project does bring to the fore the question of what these terms—as classificatory labels—might have meant to the ancient authors who used them, and, perhaps more within our control, what they mean for scholars today. If our evidence seems to resist our current attempts at classification, perhaps we need to rethink how we are classifying.
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View of the interior of Santa Costanza in Rome (Wikimedia © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro).
View of the interior of Santa Costanza in Rome (Wikimedia © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro).
Noga-Banai structures her study around repeated journeys between Jerusalem and Rome from the first through fifth centuries, tracing a period from subtle to increasingly assured visual appropriation of memories and tropes, culminating in a self-assured and assertive Rome confident in its identity as the perceived historical center of the Christian movement.
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