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Religious violence in the ancient world from classical Athens to late antiquity
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ISBN: 9781108494908 1108494900 9781108816557 110881655X 9781108860215 1108849539 1108860214 1108849210 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge: New York (N.Y.): Cambridge University Press,

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"Much like our world today, Late Antiquity (fourth-seventh centuries CE) is often seen as a period rife with religious violence, not least because the literary sources are full of stories of Christians attacking temples, statues and 'pagans'. However, using insights from Religious Studies, recent studies have demonstrated that the Late Antique sources disguise a much more intricate reality. The present volume builds on this recent cutting-edge scholarship on religious violence in Late Antiquity in order to come to more nuanced judgments about the nature of the violence. At the same time, the focus on Late Antiquity has taken away from the fact that the phenomenon was no less prevalent in the earlier Graeco-Roman world. This book is therefore the first to bring together scholars with expertise ranging from classical Athens to Late Antiquity to examine the phenomenon in all its complexity and diversity throughout Antiquity"


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The encroaching desert: Egyptian hagiography and the Medieval West
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Year: 2006 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The encroaching desert : Egyptian hagiography and the medieval west
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ISBN: 9789004155305 9004155309 9786611458065 1281458066 9047411625 9789047411628 9781281458063 6611458069 Year: 2006 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This volume presents a series of case studies concerning the use and reuse of Egyptian hagiography in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first three contributions analyze the use of Egyptian hagiography in the context of late antique Egypt and, in particular, examine to what extent these texts can be used as historical sources for the reconstruction of traditional (pagan) religion. The other contributions illustrate the different contexts in which Egyptian hagiography was reused in the medieval West. The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West.


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The Coptic life of Aaron : critical edition, translation and commentary
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ISSN: 0920623X ISBN: 9789004413009 9004413006 9789004413016 9004413014 Year: 2020 Volume: 155 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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The Life of Aaron is one of the most interesting and sophisticated hagiographical works surviving in Coptic. The work contains descriptions of the lives of ascetic monks, in particular Apa Aaron, on the southern Egyptian frontier in the fourth and early fifth centuries, and was probably written in the sixth century. Even though the first edition of this work was already published by E.A. Wallis Budge in 1915, a critical edition remained outstanding. In this book Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Jacques van der Vliet present not only a critical text, for the most part based on the only completely preserved, tenth-century manuscript, but also a new translation and an exhaustive commentary addressing philological, literary and historical aspects of the text.


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Religious violence in the ancient world : from classical Athens to late antiquity
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ISBN: 9781108860215 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Unending Variety
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ISBN: 9789004680272 9004680276 9004680527 9789004680524 Year: 2024 Publisher: Leiden ;Boston Brill

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This is a Festschrift offered by friends and colleagues to papyrologist and ancient historian Peter van Minnen. The volume contains the edition or re-edition of 52 papyri and ostraca, dating from between the third century BCE and the eighth century CE. Their subjects vary from Demosthenes to the delivery of camels in early Islamic Egypt, and their provenances stretch from the Eastern to the Western Desert, and from the Egyptian Nile valley to Qasr Ibrim in northern Nubia. All texts are published with transcription, translation, commentary and colour photographs. In addition, there are five studies, reflecting the honorand’s wide-ranging interests.


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Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia : a critical bulletin, 2013-2022
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ISBN: 9789042952201 9042952202 Year: 2024 Publisher: Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters,

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Christian Inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia (CIEN) is the first epigraphical bulletin to provide an annual overview of published inscriptions from Christian Egypt and Nubia, in both Greek and Coptic, as well as other languages. The bulletin roughly comprises the Late Antique and medieval periods, and covers anything from (re-)editions to notes and studies based on inscriptions. It goes beyond a mere Literaturübersicht, offering critical comments on any noteworthy aspect of the texts, such as context, materiality and formulae, as well as numerous corrections, new interpretations and in some cases even re-editions. In this book, the first ten bulletins, covering the years 2013 to 2022, are collected together in one volume. Added are extensive indices and concordances.


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Inside and out : interactions between Rome and the Peoples on the Arabian and Egyptian Frontiers in Late Antiquity : [conference, Ottawa, University of Ottawa and Carleton University, 11-13 october 2012]
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ISBN: 9789042931244 9042931248 Year: 2014 Volume: 8 Publisher: Leuven Paris Walpole, MA Peeters

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Myths, martyrs, and modernity : studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer
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ISSN: 15709434 ISBN: 9789004180895 9004180893 9786612951565 9004193650 1282951564 9789004193659 Year: 2010 Volume: 127 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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This volume in honour of Jan N. Bremmer contains the contributions of numerous students, colleagues, and friends offered to him on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Throughout his career, Bremmer has distinguished himself as an internationally renowned scholar of religion both past and present, including first and foremost Greek and Roman religion, but also early Christianity and post-classical developments in religion and spirituality. In line with these three main areas of Bremmer’s research, the volume is divided into three parts, bringing together contributions from distinguished scholars in many fields. The result is a diverse book which provides a broad spectrum of original ideas and innovative approaches in the history of religions, thus reflecting the nature of the scholarship of Bremmer himself.

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