Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt

Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt
Author: Andrew Harker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2008-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139471155

The Acta Alexandrinorum are a fascinating collection of texts, dealing with relations between the Alexandrians and the Roman emperors in the first century AD. This was a turbulent time in the life of the capital city of the new province of Egypt, not least because of tensions between the Greek and Jewish sections of the population. Dr Harker's was the first in-depth study of these texts since their first edition half a century ago, and it examines them in the context of other similar contemporary literary forms, both from Roman Egypt and the wider Roman Empire. This study of the Acta Alexandrinorum, which was genuinely popular in Roman Egypt, offers a more complex perspective on provincial mentalities towards imperial Rome than that offered in the mainstream elite literature. It will be of interest to classicists and ancient historians, but also to those interested in Jewish and New Testament studies.

The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs

The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs
Author: Herbert Musurillo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2000
Genre: Alexandria (Egypt)
ISBN:

"... Reporting the trials of Alexandrian heroes ... an important body of Christian literature, illuminating both the beliefs and practices of the early Christians and the extent of Roman persecutions"--Cover blurb.

Policing the Roman Empire

Policing the Roman Empire
Author: Christopher J. Fuhrmann
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199737843

Drawing on a wide variety of source material from art archaeology, administrative documents, Egyptian papyri, laws Jewish and Christian religious texts and ancient narratives this book provides a comprehensive overview of Roman imperial policing practices.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Author: Maria C. Pantelia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 904
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520388194

The thesaurus of the Greek language (1972-2022) : a brief history of the project -- Classifications and conventions : the Canon standard -- Acknowledgments -- Codes and sigla -- Bibliographic abbreviations -- The Canon of Greek authors and works -- Index of TLG author numbers.

Scribes and Their Remains

Scribes and Their Remains
Author: Craig A. Evans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567693457

Scribes and Their Remains begins with an introductory essay by Stanley Porter which addresses the principal theme of the book: the text as artifact. The rest of the volume is then split into two major sections. In the first, five studies appear on the theme of 'Scribes, Letters, and Literacy.' In the first of these Craig A. Evans offers a lengthy piece that argues that the archaeological, artifactual, and historical evidence suggests that New Testament autographs and first copies may well have remained in circulation for one century or more, having the effect of stabilizing the text. Other pieces in the section address literacy, orality and paleography of early Christian papyri. In the second section there are five pieces on 'Writing, Reading, and Abbreviating Christian Scripture.' These range across numerous topics, including an examination of the stauros (cross) as a nomen sacrum.

Jewish Responsibility for the Death of Jesus in Luke-Acts

Jewish Responsibility for the Death of Jesus in Luke-Acts
Author: Jon Weatherly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567094847

For over a century New Testament scholars have explored the issue of possible antisemitism in Luke-Acts, especially because the author apparently blames the Jews for the death of Jesus. This monograph offers a fresh analysis of this question revealing a different emphasis: that among the Jews only those associated with Jerusalem, especially the Sanhedrin, are responsible for Jesus' death. Luke's Israel is in fact divided in response to Jesus, not monolithically opposed to him. Furthermore, the ascription of responsibility to the people of Jerusalem in Acts, widely regarded as a Lukan creation, in fact is more likely to have been based on sources independent of the synoptics. A consideration of ancient literature concerned with the deaths of innocent victims further suggests a likely "Sitz im Leben" for the transmission of material ascribing responsibility for Jesus' death.

Case Studies

Case Studies
Author: Giulio Colesanti
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110428725

The book is the second volume of a series of studies dealing with the Submerged literature in ancient Greek culture (s. vol. 1: G. Colesanti, M. Giordano, eds., Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. An Introduction, Berlin-Boston, de Gruyter, 2014). It is a peculiar starting point of the research in the field of Greek culture, since it casts a light on many case studies so far not yet analyzed as literary products subjected to the process of submersion: e.g. oracles, philosophy, phlyax play, epigrams, Aesopic fables, periplus, sacred texts, mysteries, medical treatises, dance, music. Therefore the book investigates the complex and manifold dynamics of ‘emergence’ and ‘submersion’ in ancient Greek literary culture, dealing especially with matters as the interaction between orality and literacy, the authorship, the cultural transmission, the folklore. Moreover, the book offers the reader new stimulating approaches in order to reconstruct the wide frame which contained the overall cultural processes, including the literary products subjected to the submersion, in a chronological span going from Greek archaic age to the Imperial age.