Saturday, October 5, 2024

Dime es-Seba. Exploring its past to preserve its future

Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncello
(Gli Album del Centro di Studi Papirologici dell'Università degli Studi di Lecce, 8 / 2022)

ISBN: 978-88-8305-186-9
e-ISBN: 978-88-8305-185-2

Table of Contents


Copertina     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli i

Pagine iniziali     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 1-18

Spot 1: il temenos - the temenos     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 19-21

Spot 2: edificio di culto - religious building     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 21-23

Spot 3: il contra-temple - the contra-temple     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 24-27

Spot 4: le case dei sacerdoti - the priests' houses     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 28

Spot 5: il tempio di Soknopaios - the temple of Soknopaios     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 29-30

Spot 6: il tempio - the temple     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 31-36

Spot 7: il dromos - the dromos     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 37-38

Spot 8: un tempio in mattoni crudi - a mud brick temple     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 38-39

Spot 9: le case - houses     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 40-41

Spot 10: piattaforma sul dromos - platform on the dromos     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 41-42

Spot 11: scala di accesso al dromos - stairway to the dromos     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 42-47

Il Parco Nazionale del Lago Qarun - The Qarun Lake National Park     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 48-49

Ringraziamenti     PDF
Paola Davoli, Bruno Bazzani, Massimo Limoncelli 50-52


 

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To Eat or Not to Eat: Studies on the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions

Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini  
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Anna Angelini and Peter Altmann address pivotal issues on the biblical dietary prohibitions and their significance as practices and texts through philological, zooarchaeological, iconographic, and comparative ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman lenses. They explore theoretical frameworks adopted in modern interpretation, possible origins in relation to ancient Israelite religion and society, and location in relation to Priestly terminology and Deuteronomic tradition. The authors expand the arc of investigation to the Second Temple reception of the prohibitions in both the Dead Sea Scrolls and Greco-Roman discourses from the first centuries CE. With their foundational studies, they provide an approach to the dietary prohibitions, opening the way for reconstructing their path of development into their present-day contexts.
Table of contents:
Preface

1. The Dietary Laws of Lev 11 and Deut 14: Introducing Their Ancient and Scholarly Contexts (Peter Altmann and Anna Angelini)
1. A Methodological View of the History of Scholarship
2. Human-Animal Relationships in Ancient Israel
3. The Hebrew Bible Context of Food and Drink Restrictions
4. Biblical Treatments of Meat Prohibitions
5. Questions for this Volume
6. Widening Horizons

2. Framing the Questions: Some Theoretical Frameworks for the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions (Peter Altmann)
1. Anthropological Terminology
2. Psychological Explanations
3. Materialist Explanations
4. Douglas and Other Structuralist Approaches to »Dirt« as Structural Anomaly
5. Synthesis

3. Traditions and Texts: The »Origins« of the Dietary Prohibitions of Lev 11 and Deut 14 (Peter Altmann)
1. Composition-Critical Concerns
2. Continuum: From »Sanctuary Ritual« to »Mundane Custom«
3. Mundane Customary Origins?
4. Sanctuary Ritual Origins?
5. The Influence of Household or Local Religion?
6. Ritual Practice and Ritual Text
7. Conclusions and a Possible Reconstruction

4. A Deeper Look at Deut 14:4-20 in the Context of Deuteronomy (Peter Altmann)
1. The Language of Deut 14:1-2, 3, 21 and 4-20
2. Abomination and Impurity in Deut 14 and Elsewhere in Deuteronomy
3. Mourning Rituals in 14:1-2 and their Link to vv. 3, 4-20
4. »You Are Children, Belonging to Yhwh Your God«
5. A Holy People and Treasured Nation: Deut 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:18
6. The Relationship between Deut 14 and 26:12-15, 16-19
7. The Stipulations of Deut 14:21 in the context of Deut 14
8. Eating in Deut 14:1-21 in the Context of Deuteronomy 13 and 14:22-27
9. Summary

5. The Terms שׁקץ Šeqeṣ and טמא Ṭame' in Lev 11:2-23 and Deut 14:2-20: Overlapping or Separate Categories? (Peter Altmann)
1. The Usage of שׁקץ and טמא in the Rest of the Hebrew Bible and Their Relevance for Lev 11/Deut 14
2. The Usage of טמא
3. The Terms in Deut 14 and Lev 11
4. Conclusion

6. Aquatic Creatures in the Dietary Laws: What the Biblical and Ancient Eastern Contexts Contribute to Understanding Their Categorization (Peter Altmann)
1. Water Creatures from Iconography and Texts of Surrounding Regions
2. Water Creatures in Levantine Zooarchaeology and Evidence of Consumption in Biblical Texts
3. Sea Creatures in the Bible
4. Discussion of the Texts of Lev 11:9-12 and Deut 14:9-10
5. Reasons for the Prohibition?
6. Conclusions

7. A Table for Fortune: Abominable Food and Forbidden Cults in Isaiah 65-66 (Anna Angelini)
1. Introduction: Dietary Laws outside the Pentateuch and Isa 65-66
2. The References to Food in the Structure of Isa 65-66
3. Abominable Cults between Imagery and Practice
4. The Pig: A Marker for Impurity
5. The Greek Text: Sacrificing to Demons
6. Summary and Conclusions

8. Dietary Laws in the Second Temple Period: The Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls (Anna Angelini)
1. Introduction: Food in Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Law
2. Methodological Remarks
3. Main Tendencies in the Dead Sea Scroll Materials Related to Food Laws
4. Animals and the Purity of the Temple
5. Summary and Conclusions: Food Laws between Discourse and Practice

9. Looking from the Outside: The Greco-Roman Discourse on the Jewish Food Prohibitions in the First and Second Centuries CE (Anna Angelini)
1. Introduction: The Origins of the Greek and Roman Traditions about Food Prohibitions
2. The Greek and Latin Witnesses on Jewish Food Prohibitions in the First Century CE
3. The Polemic Use of Jewish Dietary Prohibitions in Juvenal and Tacitus
4. Plutarch and The Philosophical Tradition
5. Conclusions

Appendix: Plutarch's Moralia, Table Talk IV, Question 5 (669 e-671c)

10. »Thinking« and »Performing« Dietary Prohibitions: Why Should One Keep Them? One Meaning or Many? (Peter Altmann)
1. Introduction
2. (Envisioned) Practice and Significance and the Myth of the Singular Explanation
3. Knowing How and When vs. Knowing Why

 

 

Friday, October 4, 2024

Das Fundament des Pergamonaltars und die Aufnahme seiner Fassadenfragmente

Manfred Klinkott [Author]

Die Abhandlung zum Fundament des Pergamonaltars und der Bauteile seiner Fassaden ergab sich aus einer Nachprüfung der bisherigen Datierung des Gebäudes anhand der Keramik in den Kammern der Rostkonstruktion durch W. Radt und G. de Luca. Dadurch war die Möglichkeit gegeben, das gesamte Fundament mit einer steingerechten Bauaufnahme zu erfassen. Das Ergebnis dieser Bauaufnahme führte zu einem Vergleich mit allen vorliegenden Rekonstruktionsversuchen, die sich voneinander unterschieden und sich nicht der Fundamentgröße anpassen ließen. So kam es zur nächsten Herausforderung, dem Überprüfen der Fassaden in ihren Seitenlängen, wozu jedoch jedes noch vorhandene Bauteil nachgemessen werden musste. Dabei galt es auch herauszufinden, welche Fragmente von der Bauhütte exakt oder nachlässig bearbeitet wurden. Aber um das beurteilen zu können, musste erst die richtige Fußmaßgröße aus der Menge der gesammelten Daten gefunden werden, um schließlich die Breitenmaße der Fassaden zu errechnen, die sich nur mit dem richtigen Ergebnis dem Fundament aufsetzen lassen. Mit diesem ›Schlüsselwert‹ waren dann auch die bisher in Vorschlag gebrachten Höhen des Gebäudes mit ihren Untergliederungen zu kontrollieren. Dass sich der Aufbau im unteren Bereich nach den Stufen der großen Freitreppe richten musste, war als selbstverständlich ohne Zweifel anzunehmen. Dann aber zeigte es sich, dass am Kolonnadengeschoss das Gliederungsprinzip durchbrochen wurde, um perspektivische Verkürzungen optisch auszugleichen. Mit dieser Abweichung aus dem zunächst festgelegten Stufenrhythmus unterscheidet
sich der pergamenische Architekt von einer bis in das kleinste Detail durchdachten Entwurfsdisziplin, um dem Zwang einer völlig in Regeln eingebundenen Architektur zu entgehen.

Published

July 15, 2024

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Les « lieux » de l’épigramme latine tardive : vers un élargissement du genre

Les « lieux » de l’épigramme latine tardive : vers un élargissement du genre, édité par LUCIANA FURBETTA et CÉLINE URLACHER-BECHT, 2020, VI + 245 p.

Avant-propos – p. V

 

IÉvolutions du genre épigrammatique et de ses utilisations dans la latinité tardive.

1. LUCIANA FURBETTA

La question du ‘lieu’ et de l’‘élargissement’ en relation à l’épigramme latine tardive : quelques réflexions – p. 3

2. LUCA MONDIN

Tecta libido : les avatars de l’épigramme érotique dans la latinité tardive – p. 23

3. ÉTIENNE WOLFF

L’énigme comme nouvelle forme de l’épigramme dans l’Antiquité tardive – p. 63

4. JUDITH HINDERMANN

La lettre comme lieu de publication des épigrammes : les épigrammes dans les épîtres de Sidoine Apollinaire et leur modèle Pline le Jeune – p. 75

5. ISABELLE MOSSONG

Le clergé tardo-antique de la péninsule italienne dans les épigrammes inscrites : lieux – acteurs – usages – p. 97

II. La poétique de l’épigramme latine tardive : le renouvellement des lieux, des modèles et des inspirations

6. LUCIO CRISTANTE

Immagini e parole. Riflessioni sulla poetica nell’Antologia Salmasiana (334-335 R = 329-330 Sh.B) – p. 117

7. DANIEL VALLAT

Du lieu commun au lieu complexe : traditions poétiques et effets de structure dans la suite préfaciale de Luxorius – p. 133

8. MARCO ONORATO

Presenza dell’epigramma greco e ibridismo programmatico nel carme 15 di Sidonio Apollinare – p. 157

9. CÉLINE URLACHER-BECHT

La place de la morale dans les épigrammes satiriques d’Ennode de Pavie – p. 189

10. SILVIA CONDORELLI

Il titulus del ciclo ennodiano sulla murena di Firmina (Ennod. carm. 2, 46-49 [= 165-165c Vogel]) – p. 209

11. GAËLLE HERBERT DE LA PORTBARRÉ-VIARD

Les lieux de l’épigramme, les lieux dans l’épigramme : quelques remarques sur la poétique de Venance Fortunat – p. 225

 

La Bible, les Pères et l’histoire de la langue grecque. Hommage à Marguerite Harl

La Bible, les Pères et l’histoire de la langue grecque. Hommage à Marguerite Harl, édité par HÉLÈNE GRELIER-DENEUX et FRANÇOISE VINEL, 2023, VI + 228 p.

Avant-propos, HÉLÈNE GRELIER-DENEUX ET FRANÇOISE VINEL – p.V

I. Les langues bibliques et leurs traductions : hébreu, grec, latin
1. EBERHARD BONS

Pourquoi étudier à l’Université la Bible, ses versions anciennes et l’histoire de son interprétation ? Considérations herméneutiques, historiques et philologiques – p. 3

2. ANTONELLA BELLUANTONO

Un nouvel outil de recherche, l’Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint – p. 23

3. MICHEL CASEVITZ

De la colonisation à la création : étude de la famille de κτίζω dans la Septante – p. 43

4. PHILIPPE LE MOIGNE

Le corps parallèle : poétique de σῶμα dans la Septante – p. 51

5. CLAUDINE CAVALIER

Élie face aux prophètes de Baal (3R 18, 21-40) : variations textuelles et littéraires entre la Septante et le Texte Massorétique – p. 79

6. MARIE FREY

Éditer le Liber interpretationis nominum hebraicorum de Jérôme : objectifs, problèmes et méthodes – p. 105

II. De l’Écriture aux interprétations patristiques
7. FRANÇOISE VINEL

Histoire et interprétation des textes bibliques. Origène : l’évidence grecque, la source juive – p. 123

8. AGNÈS LORRAIN

L’« Écriture divine » (θεία γραφή) : postérité sémantique d’une doctrine origénienne – p. 145

9. GIANLUCA PISCINI

La notion de καιρός dans le Contre Celse d’Origène – p. 167

10. HÉLÈNE GRELIER-DENEUX

« Que ma prière s’approche en ta présence, Seigneur ; selon ton enseignement, donne-moi l’intelligence » : la filiation origénienne d’Apolinaire de Laodicée dans son exégèse de la quête de l’intelligence divine (Psaume 118) – p. 189

11. RÉGIS COURTRAY

Entre philologie et polémique : Écriture et exégèse dans le Contre Helvidius de Jérôme – p. 209

 

The Name and Gender: The Satirical Drama and the ‘Fourth Drama’ in Greek Theatre

Laura Carrara - Università di Pisa, Italia

Series | Lexis Supplements

This book examines the structure of the dramatic tetralogy as performed at the Great Dionysia (the major festival of Greek theatre), focusing on its final slot. According to the standard reconstruction, this position was always occupied by a satyric play, a lighter and shorter pièce obligatorily featuring a chorus of satyrs (and their old ribald father Silenus), whose function was, among other things, to provide emotional relief from the three preceding tragedies. If this was the case, exactly one fourth of each tragedian’s output would have consisted of satyr plays. The book takes a fresh and extensive look at the evidence supporting this view, questioning whether the so-called ‘tetralogical rule’ of modern scholarship was really perceived as such by ancient Greek playwrights and thus invariably followed by them. To this effect, the First Part of the book (“The Name”) systematically reviews the various possible Greek denominations for ‘satyric drama’, starting from the somewhat puzzling observation that there was no single dedicated word for it, at least none comparable to ‘tragedy’ or ‘comedy’. The review confirms that the most widespread way of referring to a satyr play was by appending the adjective σατυρικός/-ή to its title. In ancient quotation practice, however, these additions were easily liable to omission. Thus, it stands to reason that, in the course of the transmission process, originally satyric titles and lines circulating without further definition might have become mingled with, or mistaken for, tragic ones. The Second Part of the book (“The Genre”) takes its cue from this phenomenon, but it challenges the common view that all missing satyr plays of Classical theatre – that is, the ones expected on account of the 1:4 proportion but not traced until now – are still lurking incognito among the tragic remnants. Instead, it suggests that some of them were never written, since ancient playwrights could turn to an alternative format to fill the last slot of the tetralogy: the ‘satyr-less’ fourth-place play. The only certainly known instance of this, Euripides’s Alcestis, the last play in the tetralogy of 438 BC, has been variously explained away as an exception to the ‘tetralogical rule’. Through a re-reading of the relevant ancient sources and a reassessment of the corpora of Sophocles and Euripides, the book aims to show that the ‘satyr-less’ option was, on the contrary, potentially available to all playwrights entering the Dionysian competition and in fact occasionally, if not regularly, employed. The conclusion drafts a provisional identikit of this semi-forgotten literary typology. 

PART ONE: NOMENCLATOR SATYRICUS - THE NAMES OF SATIRICAL DRAMA FROM ATHENS TO BYZANTIUM

SECOND PART: THE ‘SORELLE’ OF ALCESTI - THE DISCOVERY OF THE ‘FOURTH DRAMA’ IN THE CLASSICAL THEATRE SYSTEM

 

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Metri lirici nella poesia greca d’età imperiale: tra riuso e innovazione