Agorai ed edilizia pubblica civile nell’Epiro di età ellenistica

Agorai ed edilizia pubblica civile nell’Epiro di età ellenistica 

di Elia Rinaldi

 

DISCI - Archeologia

L’Epiro, regione situata alle estreme propaggini della Grecia nord-occidentale e ai confini con l’Illiria meridionale, è caratterizzato da un popolamento sparso in villaggi e da un’organizzazione per piccoli ethne e comunità tribali maggiori (Caoni, Tesproti e Molossi) guidati da magistrati annuali o sovrani. In tale contesto, l’evoluzione in senso urbano dei principali insediamenti indigeni è un fenomeno alquanto tardivo che si compie tra IV e III sec. a.C., in coincidenza con l’affermarsi della cultura ellenistica. Con la formazione delle città si assiste anche al progressivo sviluppo e alla monumentalizzazione delle piazze e degli edifici civili, centrali per la vita associativa delle nuove comunità urbane, che raggiunge il suo apice negli anni a cavallo tra III e II sec. a.C., in seguito alla nascita del koinon degli Epiroti.

La regione, tuttavia, fino ad oggi non è stata adeguatamente rappresentata negli studi sull’agora e l’edilizia pubblica greca. Il volume si propone di colmare tale lacuna ricostruendo l’evoluzione architettonica e funzionale dell’architettura pubblica civile in rapporto agli eventi storici e al quadro sociale, politico ed economico. Emerge così il ruolo di primo piano ricoperto dai centri urbani all’interno delle compagini “tribali” e dell’assetto politico federale della regione e si delinea un paesaggio pubblico che con le sue tipicità e i suoi tratti originali è perfettamente inserito nel quadro di una koine artistica e architettonica ellenistica condivisa in tutto il Mediterraneo.

Disciplina

Storia

Argomento

Archeologia

Formato

210 × 297 mm

Pagine

256

Anno

2020

Confezione

Brossura

Lingua

Italiano

 

 

Il santuario di Monte Rinaldo: La ripresa delle ricerche (2016-2019)

Il santuario di Monte Rinaldo: La ripresa delle ricerche (2016-2019)

di Francesco Belfiori, Filippo Demma, Enrico Giorg

 

DISCI - Archeologia

La scoperta del santuario di Monte Rinaldo avvenne alla fine degli anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso e suscitò subito una certa eco, tuttavia i pur importanti lavori successivi non giunsero mai a far maturare le aspettative per un sito archeologico straordinario nel panorama medio-adriatico. A questa incompiutezza si tenta ora di dare una prima risposta grazie alle ricerche intraprese dall’Università di Bologna e dalla Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio
delle Marche, con il supporto del Comune di Monte Rinaldo.
Oggi le colonne del portico maggiore, riedificate per venire incontro al desiderio di restituirne la monumentalità prima ancora che con l’obiettivo di un ripristino filologico, contrastano con il paesaggio agrario circostante suscitando un impatto emotivo che rischia di essere fuorviante. Per comprendere il monumento occorre considerarlo all’interno del suo contesto architettonico e topografico, ricostruibile grazie ai documenti d’archivio e a un nuovo approccio stratigrafico e metodologico. Sono queste le linee di ricerca di cui si intende dare ragione in questo volume, nella convinzione di avere intrapreso un percorso che potrà segnare altri passi importanti anche in futuro.

Disciplina

Storia

Argomento

Archeologia

Formato

210 × 297 mm

Pagine

312

Anno

2020

Confezione

Brossura

Lingua

Italiano

ISBN

9788869236051

ISBN online

9788869236068

doi

10.30682/disciarche26

 

 

 

 

A Johannine Reading of the Pericope Adulterae: A Narrative-Intertextual Reading of John 7,53-8,11

Rayan J. Lobo 

 

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe (WUNT II) 661

John 7,53-8,11, known as the Pericope Adulterae (PA), is well known for its problematic textual history, which includes questions about its authenticity and its place within the Gospel of John. While previous studies on PA have largely limited themselves to the examination of the textual status of PA or to the interpretation of a few verses from PA, Rayan J. Lobo demonstrates that the entire Pericope Adulterae can be read within its current literary context and understood in a meaningful way as part of the Gospel of John. He employs both synchronic and diachronic methods, focusing on the origin, form, and interpretation of PA, as well as its role in Jn 7-8. In doing so, the author systematically demonstrates that the roots of PA lie in the oral tradition, that it follows the literary form of wisdom tales, and that it must be interpreted as a Jewish trial of Jesus.

Access available

• eBook PDF
• Open Access
  CC BY-SA 4.0
• 978-3-16-200340-9

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• sewn paper

Table of contents:

General Introduction
1. Status Quaestionis
2. The Objective and Scope
3. Methodological Considerations
4. General Outline of the Study
Chapter I: The Textual Status and the Origins of PA
Introduction
1.1 External Evidence
1.2 Different Locations of PA
1.3 PA's Origin and Existence
1.4 Internal Evidence
1.5 Suppression or Insertion?
1.6 Oral Tradition
1.7 Spiritual Gospel
Conclusion
Chapter II: The Narrative Analysis of John 7-8
Introduction
2.1 Delimitation?
2.2 The Kind of Plot
2.3 The Plot Analysis
2.4 Character Studies in John 7-8
2.5 The Other Narrative Elements in John 7 and 8
2.6 Important Themes in John 7-8
Conclusion
Chapter III: PA - A Wisdom Tale in the Sapiential Framework of John 7-8
Introduction
3. 1 Jesus, the Wisdom Protagonist in Jn 7-8
3.2 Wisdom Metaphors: The Living Water and the Light of the World
3.3 Wisdom Tales
3.4 Wisdom Tales and Trial Motif
Conclusion
Chapter IV: A Johannine Reading of Pericope Adulterae
Introduction
4.1 Lawsuit Motif in the Gospel of John
4.2 The Lawsuit Motif in Jn 7-8
4.3 The Trial in Jn 7,53-8,11
4.4 The Woman Caught in Adultery on Trial
4.5 Jesus on Trial
4.6 The Scribes and the Pharisees on Trial (The Reversal)
4.7 Jesus Writes on the Ground
4.7.1 Writing and the Finger of God in the Old Testament
4.7.2 The Finger of God - The Finger of Jesus
4.7.3 Anagnorisis
4.8 The Identity of Jesus in Jn 7-8 and in Pericope Adulterae
4.9 Jesus, the Judge, and the Woman Accused
4.10 Κύριος - The Response of the Woman
4.11 Mercy, A Divine Attribute
4.12 Did She Believe in Jesus?
4.13 Re-reading the Verdict in Jn 8,11
Conclusion
Chapter V: Christological Reading of the Identity of Jesus
Introduction
5.1 Jesus - The Son of God
5.2 Jesus-The Messiah
Conclusion
Chapter VI: Role - Placement - Identity
Introduction
6.1 The Role of PA in Jn 7-8
6.2 The Placement of PA
6.3 The Identity of Jesus
Conclusion
General Conclusion

 

 

 

The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu): The 'Authentic' Jewish Protocols of the Trial of Jesus

The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu): The 'Authentic' Jewish Protocols of the Trial of Jesus 

Gideon Bohak

 

Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures

This monograph offers a rich and insightful study of The Sentencing of Jesus, an ancient Jewish polemical narrative describing the trial and execution of Jesus, which is the earliest of all the Toledot Yeshu texts. The volume includes a substantial historical introduction, carefully edited synopses of the Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew versions, detailed philological and exegetical notes on the text and its transmission history, and an English translation. In his comments, Bohak explores recurring themes in Late Antique literature—such as the apologetic and polemical uses of authentic or forged protocols of trials and executions, envisioning an enemy hanged on an unexpected tree, the humiliation of dragging a corpse through the streets for all to see, and the use of magical handbooks and of spells to heal or harm—shedding new light on the cultural and literary resonances of these motifs. Detailed linguistic analyses trace translations and mistranslations across Aramaic, Hebrew, and Judaeo-Arabic traditions.

By reconstructing an ancient polemical text that has previously been known only in a fragmentary manner, and by situating it both within its Late Antique context and in the context of previous scholarship, this book makes a significant contribution to the study of Judaism, and of Jewish-Christian relations, in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Book Series

• Semitic Languages and Cultures vol. 45
• ISSN Print: 2632-6906
• ISSN Digital: 2632-6914

DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0497

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Copyright

Gideon Bohak

Published On

2026-05-07

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-737-7

Hardback978-1-80511-738-4

PDF978-1-80511-739-1

Language

• English

Print Length

593 pages (XXII+593+nulla)

Dimensions

Paperback155.956 x 30.61 x 233.934 mm(6.14" x 1.2" x 9.21")

Hardback155.956 x 33.34 x 233.934 mm(6.14" x 1.31" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback825g (29.10oz)

Hardback1007g (35.51oz)

Funding

• European Research Council

OCLC Number

1591563848

 

 

 

 

Augmented digitization of Appendix 27 ("Colonisation and Hellenisation") from Hansen and Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis

Augmented digitization of Appendix 27 ("Colonisation and Hellenisation") from Hansen and Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis

These files are an augmented digitization of Appendix 27 ("Colonisation and Hellenisation") from Hansen and Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis. They contain both the Pleiades ID (PID) for each colony and metropolis, insofar as one exists, and the Polis Inventory number, again insofar as one exists (since not all the founders or colonies are poleis).

The initial digitization of the appendix into a spreadsheet was done with the aid of Gemini, and then corrected, cleaned, and prepped for data work by hand in Google Sheets; all subsequent work was done in Python without use of AI (the Jupyter notebook is available here, although it can't actually be run without the relevant source files). Locations were programmatically associated with their PIDs where possible, and then further matching, disambiguating, and correcting was done by hand. A caveat: there are likely still some incorrect identifications! Please feel free to submit corrections. The matching of Polis Inventory numbers (here labeled as HNID) was also done programmatically, drawing the IDs from a JSON file provided by the IOS app of the Polis Inventory, in turn derived from the Stanford Polis Project.

File Downloads

• CSV or JSON of Appendix 27, with added data
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• Corrections to Hansen-Nielsen:
• row added: foundation of Sybaris at Traeis by exiled Sybarites (see Hansen-Nielsen pp.297–8)
• data added: Chersonesos in Pontic Skythia founded by colonists from Delion or Delos (see Hansen-Nielsen p.942)
• data corrected: Ainos in Thrace founded by colonists from Alopekonnesos (not Alopeke), Mytilene, and Aiolian Kyme
• File bundle for importing the colonies, metropoleis, and directed edges (connections from founder to colony) into QGIS (also derived as part of the workflow detailed above).
• Instructions (assuming that you have QGIS 3.44+ already installed):
• Install the Notebook plugin for QGIS
• Unzip the file
• Adjust the file paths in the Jupyter notebook for the file locations on your computer: only change source_path and save_path in the first notebook cell (the source path should be the location of your unzipped files; the save path should be where you want the resulting Geopackage file to be saved, which can be the same as or different from the source path)
• Open colonizing_expeditions.ipynb (using the Notebook plugin) in a new QGIS project, and run the full notebook
• Each place is represented by at least one point, polygon, or linestring; if multiple instances of a given geometry exist in Pleiades, only one was retained, but a place may exist as more than one geometry type
• N.B. The linestrings created between metropoleis and colonies are straight lines, rather than geodesic curves, but they can be densified if desired

Licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Version history

• v1.0 (2026-07-25): original upload

Hadiya: Festgabe für Stephan Westphalen

Hadiya: Festgabe für Stephan Westphalen

Jon C. Cubas Díaz (Hrsg.), Martin Dennert (Hrsg.), Jesko Fildhuth (Hrsg.), Katinka Sewing (Hrsg.), Fabian Stroth (Hrsg.)

 

Stephan Westphalen anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags mit einer Festschrift zu danken, war Schüler*innen, Freund*innen und Kolleg*innen aus vielen Orten unabhängig voneinander ein Anliegen.
Die Vielfalt der Beiträge spiegelt die Wege, Stationen und Freundschaften, die seine wissenschaftliche Laufbahn geprägt haben. Geographisch reicht der Bogen vom östlichen Mittelmeerraum bis nach Südwestdeutschland; methodisch verbindet der Band Bauforschung, ikonographische Analysen und Objektstudien mit Überlegungen zur Wissenschafts- und Rezeptionsgeschichte. Das chronologische Spektrum erstreckt sich von der Spätantike bis in die frühe Neuzeit. 

Zitationsvorschlag

Cubas Díaz, Jon C. et al. (Hrsg.): Hadiya: Festgabe für Stephan Westphalen, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2026. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1741

Lizenz

Dieses Werk steht unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International.

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1741

ISBN 978-3-96929-496-3 (PDF)

ISBN 978-3-96929-497-0 (Hardcover)

Veröffentlicht

21.07.2026

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Seiten

PDF

Titelei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

vi-vii

Jon C. Cubas Díaz, Martin Dennert, Jesko Fildhuth, Katinka Sewing, Fabian Stroth

Vorwort

ix-xiii

Schriftenverzeichnis Stephan Westphalen

xv-xviii

Abschlussarbeiten bei Stephan Westphalen

xix-xxi

Albrecht Berger

Die verschwundenen Stadtmauern von Konstantinopel

1-18

Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan

Der Steinblock aus dem Xenodocheion in Assos: Spuren einer unbekannten Nutzung im Kontext der byzantinischen Alltagskultur

19-36

Jon C. Cubas Díaz

Der Koch des Bischofs und sein Grab.

Ein mageiros aus Diokaisareia in Kilikien

37-54

Martin Dennert

Ein Sarkophag aus Herakleia Perinthos und die Aufstellungskontexte mittelbyzantinischer Sarkophage

55-90

Jesko Fildhuth

Kleines Blech mit großer Botschaft: Eine Miniaturdarstellung der Geburt Christi aus Priene

91-110

Gabriele Mietke

Die Entstehungsgeschichte von Josef Strzygowskis Orient oder Rom

Mit einem Anhang: Die Provenienz der Holzskulptur "Befreiung der belagerten Stadt" in Berlin

111-151

Dorothea Roos

Beobachtungen zu Konstruktion, Gestalt und Raumkonzepten im nordmesopotamischen Kirchenbau

153-187

Tanja Scheibel

Die Medaillonreife aus Qarara

189-217

Katinka Sewing

Eine nilotische Landschaft im Apsismosaik der spätantiken Bischofskirche von Doliche (Südosttürkei)

219-239

Christine Stephan-Kaissis

The Emperor’s New Clothes: Visual Diplomacy and the Multivalent Symbolism of a Mamluk Robe at the Council of Ferrara-Florence

241-266

Fabian Stroth

Das Templon der Nordkirche von Sebaste/Selçikler

267-295

Vasiliki Tsamakda

Der Vat. Ott. gr. 340: Eine Kopie des Skylitzes von Madrid für Tommaso Fazello?

297-323

Dilara Ulu, Zeynep Kuban

Byzantine Monuments as Home. Vladimir Zender and the Byzantina Album

325-354

Matthias Untermann

Mittelalterliche „Partyburgen“: Frühe Jagdschlösser in Sachsen und Südwestdeutschland

355-375

 

Kyprianos Update (24 July 2026)

Kyprianos Update (24 July 2026)

24th July 2026

An illustration of the angelic lute-player Davithe from British Library Ms. Or. 6794

We’re pleased to announce that we have just updated the Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects. This is the largest we have done since the database first launched, and introduces a major change – for the first time, we are publishing online a number of previously unpublished texts in advance of the second volume of the Papyri Copticae Magicae (PCM). We have also been updating the texts published in the first volume, so that PCM I nos. I 1–11 now contain the same texts and notes as the published versions, with the exception of a few more recent corrections.

As well as the usual corrections and updates, the contents of this update include:

• 26 new manuscript entries, bringing the total to 1172.
• 99 new text entries, bringing the total to 355. These consist of:
  • BnF Copte 129.20 fol. 178, a fragmentary codex sheet containing recipes for healing problems including difficult childbirth and deafness, published in 2022 by Markéta Preininger, and discussed by her in a series of blogposts on this site.
  • British Library Ms. Or. 6794, a spell intended to help a man named Seuēros (“Severos”) to acquire a beautiful singing voice.
  • British Library MS Or. 6796 (4) + MS Or. 6796, a prayer which claims to have been spoken by Jesus Christ himself, and which promises protection from demonic forces.
    • We are very grateful to Joseph E. Sanzo for his collaboration on the edition of the two British Library manuscripts, which he examined himself in a visit to London.
  • P. Mich. Inv. 593, a 16-page codex copied by three different scribes, containing a prayer said to have been granted to Seth, son of Adam, together with 32 procedures using it for various forms of protection and good fortune.
  • P. Mich. Inv. 1294 is a papyrus sheet, published online here for the first time, which contains a love spell which invokes the sun and the moon to make a woman fall in love with the user.
  • P. Mich. Inv. 602 is another manuscript published online here for the first time. It contains a copy of a prayer attributed to the legendary Judas Cyriacus, followed by the same love spell found in P. Mich. Inv. 1294, an unexpected wine account, and then a series of spells for love and healing, one of which mentions the Egyptian gods Isis and Osiris.
  • P. Mich. Inv. 599 + 594 + 603 + 596 + 598 + 597 + 595 is, as the name implies, a strange manuscript consisting of a series of seven sheets which collectively function as a kind of unbound book. The user copied the texts of P. Mich. Inv. 593, and then those from a number of other manuscripts, including P. Mich. Inv. 602 and 1294, along with a few notes on the texts being copied. While the parts of the manuscript also found in P. Mich. Inv. 593 have previously been published and translated, the rest has remained unpublished until now.

For anyone who would like to access the raw data, remember that the Manuscripts and Texts tables may be downloaded from the Database Help page (“About the Kyprianos Database”) in the form of CSV files.