Thursday, January 16, 2025

Purity in Ancient Judaism: Texts, Contexts, and Concepts

Edited by Lutz Doering, Jörg Frey and Laura von Bartenwerffer 
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[Reinheit im antiken Judentum. Texte, Kontexte und Konzepte.]
2025. VIII, 427 pages.
forthcoming in February 2025
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-164165-7
Purity plays a central role in ancient Judaism. It is relevant in the encounter with the sacred, especially at the Jerusalem Temple, but also in the context of sacred communities, for example the Qumran yaḥad . Ancients Jews, however, also strove for purity far away from the Temple, both in the land of Israel remote from Jerusalem and in the Diaspora. Yet, means, procedures, and conceptualizations in relation to purity and purification varied. While purity therefore seems to be »everywhere« in ancient Judaism, it is not everywhere the same. The present volume explores different texts and material evidence in relation to purity, impurity, and purification, from both the historic land of Israel and the Diaspora. It adduces comparative evidence from Greece, probes and refines concepts of moral and ritual (im)purity, and traces the relevance of purity debates in nascent Christianity.

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Table of contents:
Laura von Bartenwerffer/Lutz Doering/Jörg Frey: Purity in Ancient Judaism. An Introduction - Christophe Nihan/Julia Rhyder: Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible. The State of the Discussion and Future Perspectives - Yitzhaq Feder: Reconstructing the Holy Camp. Qumran and the Evolution of Purity in Ancient Judaism - Roland Deines: Archaeological Finds as Evidence for Everyday Purity Practice in the Hellenistic-Roman Period in Judea and Galilee - Joseph Scales: The Limits of Evidence. The Miqveh as an Indicator of Jewish Purity Practices in Second-Temple Period Galilee - Carsten Claußen: Purity Observance and Ancient Synagogues. Ancient Jewish Water Installations in the Diaspora - Andrej Petrovic: Inner Purity, Ritual Purity, Conscience. Perspective of the Greek Ritual Norms (on LSCG 139) - Thomas Kazen: Purity as Popular Practice. Erasing the Anachronistic Divide between
Household and Cult - Cecilia Wassén: Purity, Impurity, and In-Between - Michael DeVries: Purity and Cult in the Qumran War Texts. A Reconsideration - Ruben A. Bühner: Purity and Messianism. Some Observations and Surprises Based on the Contrast Between the Messianic Expectations in Pss. Sol. 17 and the Dead Sea Scrolls - Yair Furstenberg: Principles of Gradual Purification in Qumran Law - Laura von Bartenwerffer: First Day Ablutions in Qumran and Philo - Michael B. Cover: Symbolic Purity and the Temple of the Soul in Philo's Allegorical Commentary - Milena Hasselmann: »Be separate said the Lord and I will receive you«. 2 Cor 6:14-7:1 as an Example of the Connection of Purity and Identity in the New Testament - Christina Eschner: Purity and Impurity of Food and People in Acts 10:1-11:18. Is the Abolition of Jewish Food Laws at the Center of the Cornelian Narrative?

 

 

New Open Access Journal: Studies in Egyptian Archaeology and Science (SEAS)

ISSN: 3049-5792
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Established in 2022, Studies in Egyptian Archaeology and Science (SEAS) is an international open-access journal that covers the implementation of physical and biological sciences to Egyptian archaeology, philology and art history. SEAS invites contributions with a focus on dating, environmental studies, remote sensing and geophysics including satellite mapping, artefact studies, conservation science and biological anthropology including a strong Egyptological research focus and cultural theory in equal measure. Contributions are expected to be evidence-based, and to follow the highest scientific and ethical standards relevant to an international scientific community.

The Editorial Board of SEAS comprises academics from institutions all over the world. Collaboration of each member of the Editorial Board increases the quality of the peer review process which supports our vision through making sure that every submitted manuscript is reviewed under high ethical standards and following through with fair decisions on publication.

The journal is published by Andromeda, Wembley/ UK and founded in 2017.

Working with Ancient Egyptian Artefacts in the Field and in Museums

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New Open Access Journal: Valonia: A Journal of Anatolian Pasts

Valonia: A Journal of Anatolian Pasts

 

Valonia: A Journal of Anatolian Pasts is the international, peer-reviewed journal of Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED). Published online in open-access format and in limited print runs, the journal aims to bring forth in a timely manner selections of the latest innovative, critical, and synthetic scientific research on the broad range of subjects that fall within ANAMED’s mission: the archaeology, architectural and art history, heritage, and history of Anatolia and its affiliated geographies, from deep prehistory through Late Ottoman times. Valonia publishes one special or one open-topic issue per year. The selection of topics for special issues as well as articles for open issues aims for chronologically and disciplinarily balanced representation.

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Valonia: A Journal of Anatolian Pasts is an Open Access journal, and all articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

 Volume: 1   - 2024

1. Editorial Introduction: A New Journal From ANAMED
Christopher H. Roosevelt
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.58066  Pages 7 - 10
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2. In Memory of Robert G. Ousterhout
Tolga B. Uyar
Page 11
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
3. Cappadocia: Old Questions, New Approaches – A Historian’s Perspective
John Haldon
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.21931  Pages 17 - 33

4. Byzantine Rock-Cut Architecture in Cappadocia and Beyond: The State of Scholarship
Görkem Günay
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.43531  Pages 35 - 63

5. Some Notes on the Byzantine Houses of Cappadocia
Stavros Mamaloukos, Dimitrios Anastasiadis
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.29392  Pages 65 - 90

6. Byzantine Settlements in Cappadocia: Lives between Ostentation and Austerity
Fatma Gül Öztürk Büke
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.66375  Pages 91 - 109

7. Two Cappadocian Pseudo-Mosaics
Ivan Drpic
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.03511  Pages 111 - 134

8. Deconstructing an Iconography: Depictions of Constantine and Helena in Middle Byzantine Cappadocia
Lynn Jones
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.54264  Pages 135 - 155

9. The Mavrucan Valley: Documentation of a Byzantine Agricultural Settlement
Nilüfer Peker, Tolga B. Uyar
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.32042  Pages 157 - 171

10. Visualizing Mobility in Cappadocia
Scott Redford
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.09719  Pages 173 - 191

11. Soil Story: An Earthly Investigation
Sibel Horada, Robert G. Ousterhout
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.65375  Pages 193 - 205
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12. Imagining a Cappadocian Future
Robert G. Ousterhout
doi: 10.5505/valonia.2024.46338  Pages 207 - 213
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Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt

Alice Stevenson (Author)  
Book cover for Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt

Artistic interventions are now a popular means of delivering fresh perspectives on museum displays, including in galleries devoted to ancient Egypt. Installations are commonly said to put the past and present ‘into dialogue’ with each other, offering external critical voices on the work of decolonisation.

Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt argues that the contemporary and the ancient do not necessarily inform each other. Instead they are mediated by, and mediations of, the museum that produces them. Rather than explore how contemporary artists have been inspired by Egypt, this book examines how they have shaped the language and discourse around study of the Egyptian past by looking at the wider field of public display in which both have been historically situated. Building on this critical history of practice, the book draws from experiments in bringing contemporary artistic sculptures, conceptual pieces, multimedia films, sounds, smells and performances into galleries: at the British Museum in London, the Egyptian Museum in Turin and the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich. These are used to explore what contemporary art does in these spaces, the motivations for inviting artists in, and the legacies of those interventions. It ends with a reflection on how academics and curators can be involved in the creative process and how artists contribute to academic research.

Publication date: 16 January 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087576

Number of illustrations: 34

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Number of illustrations: 34

PDF ISBN: 9781800087576

EPUB ISBN: 9781800087613

Hardback ISBN: 9781800087552

Paperback ISBN: 9781800087569

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Juxtapositions: a historical perspective

2 Artists in twenty-first-century galleries of ancient Egypt

3 Contemporary art and the British Museum

4 Contemporary art and the Museo Egizio

5 Contemporary art and the Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst

6 Inspiration, intervention or interdisciplinarity?

Appendix: list of interventions discussed in text

References
Index

 

 

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Une nouvelle base de données sur les timbres amphoriques

Ce site russe présente une base de donnée de 400 timbres provenant de différents sites du nord de la mer Noire (Phanagoria, Nymphaion, Poljanka).

L’outil de recherche est assez pratique puisqu’on peut rechercher également par couleur, en relief par support, par emplacement… On peut également interroger la base de donnée en tapant quelques lettres du timbre.

Le site en ligne : https://amphorastamps.rssda.su/


 

Newly Open Access Monograph Series: IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

ISSN 3079-0441
EISSN 3079-045X
IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

IAA Reports is a monograph series dedicated to the final publication of excavation reports of major sites, as well as monographs devoted to a specific topic, such as a specific research devoted to material under the IAA’s jurisdiction.

 

 

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