Κατηγορία: Νεες Κυκλοφορίες

Old Society, New Belief: Religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries

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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Snapshots of Evolving Traditions Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology

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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A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410

H. A. Drake, A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410, Oxford University Press, New York 2017.

 

The fourth century of our common era began and ended with a miracle. Traditionally, in the year 312, the Roman emperor Constantine I experienced a Vision of the Cross that led him …

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Open access book: Papers from the Ninth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament

H. A. G. Houghton (ed.), Commentaries, Catenae and Biblical Tradition: Papers from the Ninth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, in association with the COMPAUL project, Texts and Studies 13, Gorgias Press, New Jersey 2016.

 

In 2011, the European Research Council awarded Dr Hugh Houghton a Starting Grant …

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Aelius Aristide écrivain. Recherches sur les rhétoriques religieuses

Laurent Pernot, Giancarlo Abbamonte, Mario Lamagna (ed.), Aelius Aristide écrivain. Recherches sur les rhétoriques religieuses, 19, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2016.

 

This book aims at explaining the reasons why the rhetor Ælius Aristides (117-after 180 AD) became a classic in ancient Greek literature. Twenty international specialists have been invited to write a collection …

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Θέματα Αρχαιολογίας: ένα νέο ηλεκτρονικό περιοδικό ανοικτής πρόσβασης

Στις αρχές του τρέχοντος έτους είδε το φως της δημοσιότητας ένα νέο, πολλά υποσχόμενο, ηλεκτρονικό περιοδικό ανοιχτής πρόσβασης. Τα Θέματα Αρχαιολογίας είναι ένα τετραμηνιαίο περιοδικό, που επικεντρώνεται σε θέματα αρχαιολογίας και ιστορίας της τέχνης, ταυτόχρονα όμως καλύπτει ευρύ φάσμα ενδιαφερόντων, από την περίοδο της προϊστορίας έως τους νεώτερους χρόνους. Εξίσου ευρύ είναι και …

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The Early Christian World (2nd Edition)

Philip F. Esler (ed.), The Early Christian World, Routledge 2017.

 

Since its publication in 2000, The Early Christian World has come to be regarded by scholars, students and the general reader as one of the most informative and accessible works in English on the origins, development, character and major figures of …

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Res Militares: the official newsletter of the Society of Ancient Military Historians

Res Militares is the official newsletter of the Society of Ancient Military Historians (SAMH). It appears twice per year and it is edited by the SAMH Secretary.

The latest issue of Res Militares is now availiable:

Res Militares, Volume 17,  Issue 1, May 2017

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H.C. Teitler, The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity

H.C. Teitler, The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity, Oxford University Press, New York 2017.

 

Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during …

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Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, New York 2016.

Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy’s …

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