Scholastic Culture In The Hellenistic And Roman Eras

Author : Sean A. Adams
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110660982

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Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras by Sean A. Adams Pdf

The purpose of this volume is to investigate scholastic culture in the Hellenistic and Roman eras, with a particular focus on ancient book and material culture as well as scholarship beyond Greek authors and the Greek language. Accordingly, one of the major contributions of this work is the inclusion of multiple perspectives and its contributors engage not only with elements of Greek scholastic culture, but also bring Greek ideas into conversation with developing Latin scholarship (see chapters by Dickey, Nicholls, Marshall) and the perspective of a minority culture (i.e., Jewish authors) (see chapters by Hezser, Adams). This multicultural perspective is an important next step in the discussion of ancient scholarship and this volume provides a starting point for future inquiries.

Author : Géza G. Xeravits,Greg Schmidt Goering
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110596373

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Figures who Shape Scriptures, Scriptures that Shape Figures by Géza G. Xeravits,Greg Schmidt Goering Pdf

The papers of the volume investigate how authoritative figures in the Second Temple Period and beyond contributed to forming the Scriptures of Judaism, as well as how these Scriptures shaped ideal figures as authoritative in Early Judaism. The topic of the volume thus reflects Ben Wright’s research, who—especially with his work on Ben Sira, on the Letter of Aristeas, and on various problems of authority in Early Jewish texts—creatively contributed to the study of the formation of Scriptures, and to the understanding of the figures behind these texts.

Author : Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000415216

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The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow Pdf

This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor. By analyzing and comparing this figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and receptions, the chapters explore a conceptual shift from "Children of Abraham" to "Ambiguous Neighbors." Through a variety of case studies using diverse methods and material, chapters explore the neighbor in these neighboring texts and traditions. The figure of the neighbor seems like an innocent topic at the surface. It is an everyday phenomenon, that everyone have knowledge about and experiences with. Still, analytically, it has a rich and innovative potential. Recent interdisciplinary research employs this figure to address issues of cultural diversity, gender, migration, ethnic relationships, war and peace, environmental challenges and urbanization. The neighbor represents the borderline between insider and outsider, friend and enemy, us and them. This ambiguous status makes the neighbor particularly interesting as an entry point into issues of cultural complexity, self-definition and identity. This volume brings all the intersections of religion, ethnicity, gender, and socio-cultural diversity into the same neighborhood, paying attention to sacred texts, receptions and contemporary communities. The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions offers a fascinating study of the intersections between Jewish, Christian and Islamic text, and will be of interest to anyone working on these traditions.

Author : Eitan P. Fishbane,Elisha Russ-Fishbane
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798887193083

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Jewish Culture and Creativity by Eitan P. Fishbane,Elisha Russ-Fishbane Pdf

Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof. Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish life. The innovative scholarship represented in this volume offers critical new perspectives from antiquity to contemporary Judaism and will serve as a stimulus for new directions in and beyond the field of Jewish studies.

Author : Catherine Hezser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315280950

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The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity by Catherine Hezser Pdf

This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (third to seventh century C.E.), providing cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological approaches, and avenues for future research. Based on both Jewish and non-Jewish literary and material sources, this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach involving historians of ancient Judaism, scholars of rabbinic literature, archaeologists, epigraphers, art historians, and Byzantinists. Developments within Jewish society and culture are viewed within the respective regional, political, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts in which they took place. Special focus is given to the impact of the Christianization of the Roman Empire on Jews, from administrative, legal, social, and cultural points of view. The contributors examine how the confrontation with Christianity changed Jewish practices, perceptions, and organizational structures, such as, for example, the emergence of local Jewish communities around synagogues as central religious spaces. Special chapters are devoted to the eastern and western Jewish Diaspora in Late Antiquity, especially Sasanian Persia but also Roman Italy, Egypt, Syria and Arabia, North Africa, and Asia Minor, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the situation and life experiences of Jews and Judaism during this period. The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity is a critical and methodologically sophisticated survey of current scholarship aimed primarily at students and scholars of Jewish Studies, Study of Religions, Patristics, Classics, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Iranology, History of Art, and Archaeology. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Judaism and Jewish history.

Author : Jonathan D.H. Norton,Garrick Allen,Lindsey A. Askin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350265035

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Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean by Jonathan D.H. Norton,Garrick Allen,Lindsey A. Askin Pdf

By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors intentionally place Jewish, Christian, Roman, Greek and other reading circles back into their encompassing historical context, avoiding subdivisions along modern subject lines, divisions still bearing marks of cultural and ideological interests. In their examination, contributors avoid dwelling upon traditional methodological debates over orality vs. literacy and social classifications of literacy, instead turning their attention to the social-historical: groups of people, circles and networks, strata and class, scribal culture, material culture, epigraphic and papyrological evidence, functions and types of literacy and the social relationships that all of these entail. Overall, the volume contributes to an emerging and important interdisciplinary collaboration between specialists in ancient literacy, encouraging future discussion between two currently divided fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004465664

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James Barr Assessed by Anonim Pdf

James Barr published significant work on a wide variety of topics within Old Testament studies and beyond. This volume provides an assessment of Barr’s contribution to biblical studies sixty years after publication of his memorable The Semantics of Biblical Language.

Author : Jackie Elliott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004518278

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Early Latin Poetry by Jackie Elliott Pdf

This study offers an introduction to the fragmentary record of early Roman poetry. In focus are the contexts, practitioners, and reception of early Roman drama (excluding comedy), epic, and satire, along with the challenges which our evidence for these entails.

Author : Tristan Power
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000400410

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Collected Papers on Suetonius by Tristan Power Pdf

This collection of essays by a leading authority on Suetonius, one of our most significant historical sources for the early Roman Empire, provides an in-depth examination of his works, whose literary value has in the past been overlooked. Although Suetonius is well known for his Lives of emperors such as Caligula and Nero, he is rarely studied in his own right, aside from grammatical or textual commentaries. This is the first volume by an expert on the author to make him accessible to a wider audience, looking at his biographies not only of emperors but also poets, and discovering new contemporary evidence for Jesus from one of Suetonius’ first-century sources. Other writers discussed include Homer, Sophocles, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Curtius Rufus, Josephus, Plutarch, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Juvenal, and Cassius Dio. The book contains thirty-two papers in all, eleven of which are new, which examine Suetonius’ neglected historical value and literary skills, and offer textual conjectures on both the Illustrious Men and Lives of the Caesars. It also has a new introduction and represents over a dozen years of research on an essential Latin source for Roman history. Collected Papers on Suetonius provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers working on Suetonius. It also has broader significance for anyone studying Roman imperial history and culture, Latin literature, and classical historiography.

Author : Jean Maurais
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004516588

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Characterizing Old Greek Deuteronomy as an Ancient Translation by Jean Maurais Pdf

Much can be learned about a translation’s linguistic and cultural context by studying it as a text, a literary artifact of the culture that produced it. However, its nature as a translation warrants a careful approach, one that pays attention to the process by which its various features came about. In Characterizing Old Greek Deuteronomy as an Ancient Translation, Jean Maurais develops a framework derived from Descriptive Translation Studies to bring both these aspects in conversation. He then outlines how the Deuteronomy translator went about his task and provides a characterization of the work as a literary product.

Author : David T. Runia,Gregory E. Sterling
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628374476

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The Studia Philonica Annual XXXIV, 2022 by David T. Runia,Gregory E. Sterling Pdf

The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (circa 15 BCE to circa 50 CE).

Author : John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015027643520

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Greek Life and Thought by John Pentland Mahaffy Pdf

Author : P. Gozza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401595780

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Number to Sound by P. Gozza Pdf

Number 10 Sound: The Musical Way 10 the Scientific Revolution is a collection of twelve essays by writers from the fields of musicology and the history of science. The essays show the idea of music held by Euro th pean intellectuals who lived from the second half of the 15 century to the th early 17 : physicians (e. g. Marsilio Ficino), scholars of musical theory (e. g. Gioseffo Zarlino, Vincenzo Galilei), natural philosophers (e. g. Fran cis Bacon, Isaac Beeckman, Marin Mersenne), astronomers and mathema ticians (e. g. Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei ). Together with other people of the time, whom the Reader will meet in the course of the book, these intellectuals share an idea of music that is far removed from the way it is commonly conceived nowadays: it is the idea of music as a science whose object-musical sound--can be quantified and demonstrated, or enquired into experimentally with the methods and instruments of modem scientific enquiry. In this conception, music to be heard is a complex, variable structure based on few simple elements--e. g. musical intervals-, com bined according to rules and criteria which vary along with the different ages. However, the varieties of music created by men would not exist if they were not based on certain musical models--e. g. the consonances-, which exist in the mind of God or are hidden in the womb of Nature, which man discovers and demonstrates, and finally translates into the lan guage of sounds.

Author : Philippe Vendrix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351557504

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Music and the Renaissance by Philippe Vendrix Pdf

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one hand, scholars of this period were inspired by classical narratives on the sublime effects of music and, on the other hand, were affected by the profound religious upheavals which destroyed the unity of Western Christianity and, in so doing, opened up new avenues in the world of music. These articles offer as broad a vision as possible of the ways of thinking about music which developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : Teresa Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521584663

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Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by Teresa Morgan Pdf

This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, including the first systematic comparison of literary sources with the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, Teresa Morgan shows how education developed from a loose repertoire of practices in classical Greece into a coherent system spanning the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. She examines the teaching of literature, grammar and rhetoric across a range of social groups and proposes a model of how the system was able both to maintain its coherence and to accommodate pupils' widely different backgrounds, needs and expectations. In addition Dr Morgan explores Hellenistic and Roman theories of cognitive development, showing how educationalists claimed to turn the raw material of humanity into good citizens and leaders of society.