Tarmo Toom, (ed.), Augustine in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Augustine in Context assesses the various contexts – historical, literary, cultural, spiritual – in which Augustine lived and worked. The essays, written by an international team of scholars especially for this volume, provide the background against which Augustine’s treatises should be …
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Ελένη Φάσσα (εισαγωγή, μετάφραση, σχόλια), Ιουλιανού του Σύρου, Επιστολές στον Φιλόσοφο Ιάμβλιχο, Στιγμή, 2016.
Η έκδοση των επιστολών του Ιουλιανού του Σύρου χαρακτηρίζεται από διπλή πρωτοτυπία. Οι επιστολές του Ιουλιανού του Σύρου που για αιώνες διαβάζονταν ως έργα του ομώνυμου αυτοκράτορα παρουσιάζονται για πρώτη φορά στη διεθνή βιβλιογραφία ως αυτόνομη ενότητα. Παράλληλα, προσφέρεται …
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Despoina Ariantzi (ed.), Coming of Age in Byzantium : Adolescence and Society, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2017.
The various phases of life and their manifestations in theory and social reality constitute a well-established area of research in the fields of western medieval studies and ancient history. In this respect the Byzantine East …
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The Greek New Testament is priceless in its value as it is how God has given us his revelation of the gospel and of Jesus Christ. While a few trusted Greek texts are in print, significant advances have been made in Greek translation studies of the New Testament since a standard text was …
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Kirill Dmitriev, Isabel Toral-Niehoff (ed.), Religious Culture in Late Antique Arabia: Selected Studies on the Late Antique Religious Mind, Gorgias Press 2017.
This volume explores aspects of religious culture in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula across Late Antiquity – the period of dynamic and historically crucial developments, culminating in the …
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David Potter, Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint, Oxford University Press, New York 2017.
Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of …
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Nathan T. Elkins, The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva, AD 96-98, Oxford University Press, New York 2017.
At age 65, Nerva assumed the role of emperor of Rome; just sixteen months later, his reign ended with his death. Nerva’s short reign robbed his regime of the …
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Richard L. Gordon, Georgia Petridou, Jörg Rüpke (ed.), Beyond Priesthood: Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire, De Gruyter, Berlin 2017.
The last decade has seen a surge of scholarly interest in these religious professionals and a good number of high quality publications. Our volume, however, with its …
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Mu-chou Poo, H. A. Drake, and Lisa Raphals (ed.), Old Society, New Belief: Religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries, Oxford University Press, New York 2017.
In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: missionaries started to …
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Liv Ingeborg Lied, Hugo Lundhaug (ed.), Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2017.
Scholars of early Christian and Jewish literature have for many years focused on interpreting texts in their hypothetical original forms and contexts, while largely overlooking …
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