The Figure of Job - Folio 46r from the Syriac Bible of Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341) Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The Figure of Job - Folio 46r from the Syriac Bible of Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341) Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Nevertheless, I characterize the book as more protean. It resists reductive readings, always offering a counter-text to any interpretation (including the one in this essay.)
Read MoreDetailed from Raphael’s “School of Athens” (Wikimedia Commons)
Detailed from Raphael’s “School of Athens” (Wikimedia Commons)
Watts ends the volume with a chapter on such modern representations of Hypatia, which move already suggests his aim: to bracket the legend long enough to catch sight of the life that inspired it.
Read MoreChrist healing the leper (Wikimedia Commons)
Christ healing the leper (Wikimedia Commons)
I argue one must take into account not only what magic is said to be, but also what magicians do. There is a reason, after all, that these practices are the ones against which Apuleius was compelled to mount his defense.
Read MoreMaia Kotrosits responds to the review forum on Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreCatacomb painting, possibly of Eucharist bread | Catacomb of San Callisto, third century | Image source
Catacomb painting, possibly of Eucharist bread | Catacomb of San Callisto, third century | Image source
This Week: Continuing forum on early Christian identity, restoring Tutankhamen’s tomb, digital archaeology, Cairo Genizot, catacombs – and more!
Read MoreJonah being thrown into the Sea. Catacomb of Saint Peter and Saint Marcellino, Rome, Italy, via wikicommons.
Jonah being thrown into the Sea. Catacomb of Saint Peter and Saint Marcellino, Rome, Italy, via wikicommons.
Eric Smith responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreTeresa Calpino responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreWax encaustic funerary painting on wood | Second-century Roman Egypt, in the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum (Karlsruhe) | Image Source
Wax encaustic funerary painting on wood | Second-century Roman Egypt, in the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum (Karlsruhe) | Image Source
This Week: New forum complicating early Christian identity with Maia Kotrosits, forgery, Roman-era Egyptian tombs, museum ethics – and more!
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Donovan Schaefer responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015) at the 2018 SBL review panel.
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Image provided free through Unsplash @chuttersnap.
Shayna Sheinfeld responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015) at the 2018 SBL review panel.
Read MoreIllustration of St. Luke in an Armenian Gospel manuscript | WMS Armenian MS no.1, dated to 1495 | Image Source
Illustration of St. Luke in an Armenian Gospel manuscript | WMS Armenian MS no.1, dated to 1495 | Image Source
This Week: Book notes and Byzantium, Coptic magic, Ishtar’s netherworld descent, open access all over the place, Armenia! - the year begins!
Read MoreFour Gospels in Armenian (1434/5 CE) - MET Collection
Four Gospels in Armenian (1434/5 CE) - MET Collection
This exhibition aims to showcase Armenia as an artistic civilization in its own right rather than a postscript to the more prominent and the better-known achievements of Byzantium or Near Eastern cultures.
Read MoreBeginning of Luke’s Gospel from the 11th c. (Wikimedia Commons)
Beginning of Luke’s Gospel from the 11th c. (Wikimedia Commons)
This volume, replete with color images and detailed charts, is both a resource and an invitation for further research. The range of expertise offered by the volume’s contributors testifies to the interdisciplinarity that animates Byzantine Studies.
Read MoreMosaic from a series on the months of the year (early 3rd century CE). Image courtesy of Ad Meskins via Wikimedia Commons.
Mosaic from a series on the months of the year (early 3rd century CE). Image courtesy of Ad Meskins via Wikimedia Commons.
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Read MoreCuneiform synonym list clay tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal | Neo-Assyrian (934-608BCE), currently on display in the British Museum | Image Source
Cuneiform synonym list clay tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal | Neo-Assyrian (934-608BCE), currently on display in the British Museum | Image Source
This Week: Primeval Roman kings, inconsistent Torah, Egyptian royal tombs, clay tablets, excavation reports, plus, oh, Atlantis – and more!
Read MoreJean Auguste Dominique Ingres, "Romulus, vainqueur d'Acron, porte les dépouilles opimes au temple de Jupiter" (1812), (Wikimedia Commons)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, "Romulus, vainqueur d'Acron, porte les dépouilles opimes au temple de Jupiter" (1812), (Wikimedia Commons)
In my dissertation, I group twelve authors by chronology and language of writing. Chapter two treats Velleius Paterculus (d. 31 CE), Tacitus, and Suetonius (d. 126 CE), three authors separated by time, genre, rank, and aims, but unified in their approach to imperial history as in certain respects a recapitulation of regal history; determined by the ancestry of the Julio-Claudian emperors.
Read MoreIn Inconsistency in the Torah, Joshua A. Berman turns the critical lens on source criticism itself, arguing that it is built upon several epistemological flaws and illustrating these with a variety of case studies.
Read MoreCoptic Papyrus Fragment | Seventh-century papyrus and ink from the Monastery of Epiphanius, Egypt | Image Source
Coptic Papyrus Fragment | Seventh-century papyrus and ink from the Monastery of Epiphanius, Egypt | Image Source
This Week: Creative pedagogy, unfinished Bibles, ancient letter networks, Yemeni cultural heritage, Coptic magical papyri – and much more!
Read More“The Bible is, and will likely long continue to be, both building material and building. It’s a treasury of the ancient world, a storehouse in which lie a large percentage of the glittering gems which survived the ancient Levant in any form. And it’s a doorway through which the ancient Levant continues to shape the present, as well as the history of how this heritage has been repeatedly reshaped and by whom.”
Read MorePort Scene, Roman fresco from Stabiae housed at Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples) (Image courtesy of Wolfgang Rieger on Wikimedia Commons)
Port Scene, Roman fresco from Stabiae housed at Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples) (Image courtesy of Wolfgang Rieger on Wikimedia Commons)
Cavan Concannon’s Assembling Early Christianity: Trade, Networks, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth examines the traces of an understudied bishop to draw larger conclusions about how early Christianities effloresced and dissolved over time.
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