Royal Library of Belgium joins Nomisma

Royal Library of Belgium joins Nomisma

The Royal Library of Belgium (KBR; Nomisma URI: http://nomisma.org/id/kbr) is the newest organization to join the Nomisma.org consortium, providing data for about 750 Roman Republican coins in its collection to Coinage of the Roman Republic Online. The Royal Library of Belgium is one of the largest numismatic collections in Europe, with more than 200,000 objects, and the first Belgian institution to make part of their collection available as Linked Open Data to Nomisma. We hope to integrate their Roman Imperial and Greek coins in other type projects eventually.

A KBR coin (Inv. II, 64.869) linked to RRC 250/1

There are now nearly 60,000 coins available in CRRO (connected to about 2,000 types), making it the most comprehensive resource of its type on the web.

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Romulus, Quirinus et Victoria: La construction d'une mémoire collective à Rome entre 338 et 290 av. J.-C.

Romulus, Quirinus et Victoria: La construction d'une mémoire collective à Rome entre 338 et 290 av. J.-C.

Karlis Vé

 

Études Anciennes

 La période entre 338 et 290 av. J.-C. marque le début de l’entreprise de conquête systématique, qui permit à Rome de devenir maîtresse de ce qui était considéré comme la « terre habitée », avec les premières étapes qu’en furent la soumission du Latium et l’achèvement des guerres, longues et difficiles, contre les Samnites. Rome était enfin sortie du conflit des ordres qui avait vu s’affronter les patriciens et les plébéiens : elle avait désormais à sa tête une aristocratie regroupant des représentants des deux parties de la cité, la nobilitas, qui lança la ville dans une politique d’expansion, rendue possible par la disparition des tensions du passé. Mais, comme tout impérialisme, l’impérialisme romain devait se fonder sur une idéologie : l’auteur montre que cela se fit par la construction d’une mémoire historique attribuant à la cité, depuis sa fondation par Romulus, une mission de domination universelle, voulue et garantie par les dieux. Cette émergence d’une idéologie d’État se traduisit par la construction de nouveaux temples, celui d’une nouvelle venue dans le panthéon romain, la déesse de la Victoire Victoria et celui de Quirinus, c’est-à-dire le fondateur de Rome divinisé. L’auteur étudie minutieusement les faits, en analysant en détail les textes des auteurs anciens mais aussi ayant recours aux données les plus récentes de l’archéologie, que la riche iconographie fournie dans l’ouvrage permet d’appréhender.

• Éditeur : Les Belles Lettres
• Collection : Études Anciennes
• Lieu d’édition : Paris
• Année d’édition : 2021
• Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 25 novembre 2021
• EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9782251452609
• EAN électronique : 9782251916019
• DOI : 10.4000/books.lesbelleslettres.28562
• Nombre de pages : 368 p.

Préface

Remerciements

Introduction

La Rome des dernières décennies du iv^e siècle av. J.-C. et la réactualisation de la légende de Romulus

Le temple de Quirinus : la rencontre de Romulus et Quirinus

Le sanctuaire de Victoria

Le village de Romulus dans le regard romain

Conclusion

Annexe

Bibliographie

 

 

The newest issue of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies

The newest issue of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (vol. 9, issue 4), edited by Ann E. Killebrew and Sandra Scham, offers two open-access articles, one of them open access for three months, the other permanent open access. Would you be willing to link subscribers to your listserv to the articles on JSTOR? We would very much appreciate if that were possible.

Here are the links:

“Ruined Cities in Cyprus”: How a Three-Hundred-Word Letter
Kick-Started the Preservation of Cyprus’s Medieval Structures
Danai Konstantinidou
(***Open Access for 3 Months*** on JSTOR)

https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.4.0313

Hidden Mediterranean History/Histories: The Church of the Panagia tou
Potamou in Kazafani (Ozanköy), Cyprus
Thomas Kaffenberger, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Michael J. K. Walsh, and
Werner Matthias Schmid
(***Permanent Open Access*** on JSTOR)

https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.4.0336

The Classical Language Toolkit

The Classical Language Toolkit

 

The Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK) is a Python library offering natural language processing (NLP) for the languages of pre–modern Eurasia. Pre-configured pipelines are available for 19 languages.

Maintainers

• Kyle P. Johnson
• Patrick J. Burns
• John Stewart
• Todd Cook
• Clément Besnier
• William J. B. Mattingly

Academic Advisors

• Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo (Associate Professor of Classics); Tesserae (Principal Investigator)
• Gregory Crane, Universität Leipzig (Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities), Tufts University (Professor of Classics); Perseus (Editor–in–Chief) and Open Philology (Director)
• Peter Meineck, New York University (Associate Professor of Classics); Aquila Theatre (Founder), Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives (Founder, Director)
• Leonard Muellner, Brandeis University (Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies); Center for Hellenic Studies (Director of Publications, Information Technology and Libraries)

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Athanasius Kircher at Stanford: Correspondence

Athanasius Kircher at Stanford: Correspondence

Note: In order to consult the Kircher correspondence, it is first necessary to download and install the Luna Insight software.

About the Correspondence

During his lifetime, the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) was widely regarded as the physical embodiment of all the learning of his age. He had over 760 correspondents, including scientists, Jesuit missionaries and world potentates. The subjects discussed in his voluminous correspondence cover the entire range of his interests. Letters sent to Kircher were commonly accompanied by curious natural objects or artefacts for Kircher’s expanding collection in Rome and reports of astronomical observations or experiments performed by the global network of Jesuit missionaries. In return, Kircher sent his powerful patrons medicines and balsams produced in the pharmacy of the Jesuit college in Rome, and elaborate machines of his devising such as the Mathematical Organ, and example of which is now preserved in the Museo Galileo in Florence.

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siddham - The South Asia Inscriptions Database

siddham - The South Asia Inscriptions Database

The Siddham database is a resource for the study of inscriptions from South and Central Asia.

The project focuses on the period of the Guptas (circa 320 to 550), a pivotal moment in the history of Asia, marked by an astonishing florescence in every field of endeavour. The Gupta kingdom and its networks had an enduring impact on India and a profound reach across Central and Southeast Asia in a host of cultural, religious and socio-political spheres.

The project is based at the British Museum, British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, and funded by an ERC-Synergy grant for 2014-2020.

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La nature des dieux, Cicéron

La nature des dieux, Cicéron

Édité par Clara Auvray-Assayas

Le dialogue de Cicéron De natura deorum (La nature des dieux) met en scène la confrontation de trois interlocuteurs qui représentent chacun une école philosophique : l’épicurien Velléius et le stoïcien Balbus exposent les éléments de doctrine élaborés dans leur école respective pour traiter la question du divin tandis que Cotta, le représentant de la Nouvelle Académie, met à l’épreuve la cohérence des deux exposés et les soumet l’un après l’autre à un examen critique. L’exceptionnelle richesse documentaire de ce dialogue a suscité des éditions commentées de vastes proportions : de Mayor (1880-1885) à Pease (1955-1958), le travail fourni sur les sources grecques, sur les cultes grecs et romains, sur la postérité antique, tardo-antique et chrétienne est si complet qu’il fournit une base irremplaçable. Mais ces données exigent une interprétation d’ensemble qui tienne compte du projet philosophique de Cicéron ; or ce projet a été jusqu’ici sous-estimé pour deux raisons :

• – le dialogue de Cicéron a été lu surtout comme un témoin, souvent unique, et à ce titre utilisé pour reconstituer des pans entiers de la philosophie hellénistique ;
• – sur un autre plan, le texte a été établi d’après une vulgate qui ne permet pas de comprendre qu’on a affaire à un travail en cours dont les modifications sont liées à la rédaction des autres œuvres de physique que sont le De diuinatione, le De fato et le Timaeus.

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Ahiqar - The Story of Ahiqar in its Syriac and Arabic Tradition

Ahiqar - The Story of Ahiqar in its Syriac and Arabic Tradition

The Story of Ahiqar in its Syriac and Arabic Tradition is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and hosted by both the Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen and the Göttingen State and University Library. It aims to index and make accessible the Ahiqar story in its Syriac and Arabic transmission branches.

 

 

Callimachus: Aetia

Callimachus: Aetia

This site contains a Greek text, English translation, notes, and vocabulary for Aetia (Αἴτια, "Causes") by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus (310/305–240 BC), along with an introduction, an interactive map of places mentioned, a bibliography, and images of the papyrus fragments on which the text is largely based.

Aetia is a collection of elegiac poems in four books that deals with the foundation of cities, unusual religious ceremonies, and unique local traditions from around the Greek world. It survives not in manuscript form but in papyrus fragments and quotations by later authors. This site is not a complete collection of every identifiable scrap of the Aetia, as is Annette Harder's monumental print edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). But all coherent, understandable fragments are included, as well as some very short fragments with good explanatory scholia (commentary by ancient scholars).

This project was originally conceived by Prof. Susan Stephens of Stanford University, as a way to achieve four goals:

• increase access among classicists at every career stage (from undergraduate to senior scholar) to the fragmentary text of the Aetia
• provide a format for an exchange of information for scholars who are working on aspects of the poem
• allow immediate integration of new papyrus finds
• use the visual and spatial capabilities of the web

• Preface
• Text and Notes
• Papyri List
• Callimachus of Cyrene
• The Aetia
• The Organization of the Aetia
• Recreating the Aetia
• Supplementary Texts »
  • Aristaenetus 1.10
  • Aristaenetus 1.15
  • Catullus 66
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Maps and Tools
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Hesperia - Banco de datos de lenguas paleohispanicas

Hesperia - Banco de datos de lenguas paleohispanicas

El objetivo del Banco de Datos de Lenguas Paleohispánicas HESPERIA es la recopilación, ordenación y tratamiento de todos los materiales lingüísticos antiguos relativos a la Península Ibérica (y los relacionados con ella del sur de Francia), con la exclusión de las inscripciones latinas, griegas y fenicias.

El Banco de Datos HESPERIA incluye:

• Todos los textos en lenguas paleohispánicas (ibérico, celtibérico, lusitano y la del Suroeste).
• Las inscripciones monetales paleohispánicas.
• La onomástica indígena (antropónimos, topónimos, etnónimos y teónimos de las lenguas mencionadas, así como del vascón o del turdetano) transmitida en fuentes epigráficas o literarias grecolatinas.
• Las glosas hispánicas transmitidas por los autores antiguos.

El Banco de Datos HESPERIA de Lenguas Paleohispánicas está mantenido por un equipo de investigadores pertenecientes a la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Universidad de Zaragoza y Universitat de Barcelona, con financiación del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de España.

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Digital Statius: The Achilleid

Digital Statius: The Achilleid

Over the last forty years or so, our understanding and appreciation of the Latin literature of the Flavian age have been radically improved. Among all the writers involved in this influential, complex and ongoing process of re-evaluation, Publius Papinius Statius (40-96 CE) has enjoyed what may be fairly described as a renaissance. Today his stock is high, as attested by the publication of a regular stream of monographs, commentaries, translations and editions of his three surviving works, the Thebaid, the Silvae and the Achilleid.

It seems fair to say that of the three, it is the last that has received the least attention. Its incomplete state (only the first book and 167 verses were complete at the time of the poet's death) lies at the heart of the matter, but the radical change in style from the Thebaid has also certainly contributed to the poem's reception, at least until recently, when its status as a kind of fragment and its quirky and partially Ovidian manner, its generic ambivalence and its remarkably complex allusivity have come to be seen as distinctly positive features of a text that still requires further study. On the digital front, recent years have seen the timid beginnings of what is surely destined to become a major trend, the preparation of open access, high quality, online critical editions of Greek and Latin texts. Two excellent examples are the edition of Catullus Online prepared by Professor D. Kiss of the University of Barcelona (http://www.catullusonline.org/CatullusOnline) and that of Callimachus' Aetia by Professor S. Stephens of Stanford University (http://dcc.dickinson.edu/callimachus-aetia/the-aetia).

This site is devoted to produce a full open access critical edition of the Achilleid. When complete, in addition to a new critical text the site will contain translations, images of the largest possible number of manuscripts and links to all the manuscripts that are available online elsewhere, and further links to major online, open access research tools in the field of Classics. It is our aim to explore the ways in which new technologies can combine with the established techniques and the high standards of traditional classical philology, and in doing so to offer to the scholarly community an enriched edition of Statius' Achilleid located within the rapidly evolving network of digital tools being developed for the study and teaching of Latin literature.

Keen to share our current research and data with users, we are constructing a platform that will continue to evolve as our ongoing work develops. Concerning the apparatus criticus (cf. the website page called “The Poem”), at the moment the site only displays a sample of the lessons covering lines 1-19 of the first book, taken from many witnesses that have not been studied or taken into account in earlier editions of the poem, even by the most recent edition: Papinius Statius: Thebaid and Achilleid, ed. and transl. by Hall J.B., Ritchie A.L., Edwards M.J., 3 vols., Newcastle 2007-2008. In the apparatus, we have employed the usual abbreviations; in addition, by the sign /, we have indicated the cases where a character is illegible due to deletion and / or correction; by the sign [---], we have indicated that the character(s) are missing due to a physical accident (tearing of the page, for example); by the sign?, that we still hesitate over our reading. This is a first attempt at the visualisation of a high number of witnesses and, as such, it is very much a work in progress. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or suggestions at : achilleid@unige.ch.

The research carried out to produce this website was made possible thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) who has financed two consecutive projects: Towards a digital edition of the Achilleid of Statius, http://p3.snf.ch/project-170010 (2016-2019) and Digital Statius: the Achilleid, http://p3.snf.ch/Project-189375 (2019-2021).

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Die Entstehung komplexer Siedlungen im Zentraloman: Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Al-Khashbah

Die Entstehung komplexer Siedlungen im Zentraloman: Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Al-Khashbah

Author: Conrad Schmidt, Stephanie Döpper, Jonas Kluge, Samantha Petrella, Ullrich Ochs, Nick Kirchhoff, Susanne Maier und Mona Walter 

Hardback; 210x297; 590 pages; 358 figures, 68 plates (colour throughout). German text.. 803 2021 Arabia Orientalis: Studien zur Archäologie Ostarabiens 5. Available both in print and Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781803271002. Epublication ISBN 9781803271019. 

Die Entstehung komplexer Siedlungen im Zentraloman: Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Al-Khashbah presents the results of a survey conducted in 2015 and beyond by the Institut für die Kulturen des Alten Orients of the Universität Tübingen in Al-Khashbah, one of the largest Early Bronze Age sites on the Omani Peninsula. Ten monumental buildings, 273 tombs and other structures from the Hafit (3100-2700 BC) and Umm an-Nar periods (2700-2000 BC) were documented here. This makes Al-Khashbah ideally suited for the investigation of the beginnings of complex settlements and social structures in northern Inner Oman at the transition from the 4th to the 3rd millennium BC, because many of the achievements previously attributed to the Umm an-Nar period, such as monumental architecture and the smelting of copper, can already be proven here in the preceding Hafit period. In the Umm an-Nar period, the development of Al-Khashbah continues steadily, giving the site additional importance. According to the results of the survey, however, copper production at the site no longer seems to play a role in this period.

Aus den auf die frühe Bronzezeit folgenden Epochen des 2. und 1. Jahrtausends v. Chr. sowie des 1. und 2. Jahrtausends n. Chr. gibt es in Al-Khashbah nur äußerst wenige Befunde. Erst im 18.–20. Jahrhundert n. Chr. erfährt der Ort eine intensive Wiederbelebung, wovon insbesondere die alte Lehmziegelsiedlung im Norden der Palmenoase, eine kleine Siedlung im Osten des Untersuchungsgebiets, eine Reihe von Bewässerungsanlagen, mehrere Friedhöfe, Petroglyphen sowie zahlreiche an der Oberfläche gefundene spätislamische Keramikscherben zeugen. 

 

Patrimoine du Proche-Orient: Série de la collection Grands sites archéologiques

Patrimoine du Proche-Orient: Série de la collection Grands sites archéologiques

La collection Grands Sites Archéologiques contribue activement à la valorisation de la recherche sur le patrimoine et l'archéologie. À l’initiative du ministère de la Culture, elle est coordonnée par le musée d'Archéologie nationale, Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Les chercheurs français y présentent le fruit de leurs recherches de manière compréhensible pour tous, à l’aide de contenus numériques interactifs (modélisations 3D, cartes et chronologies interactives, etc.). La collection accueille en moyenne 2 millions de visites par an. Elle se divise en deux séries : Archéologie en France et Patrimoine du Proche-Orient.

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A very special new episode of our podcast, This Week in the Ancient Near East

A very special new episode of our podcast, This Week in the Ancient
Near East, is now available:

It’s the Very Nearly Live from the ASOR 2021 Conference With Extra
Special Guests Edition!

A conference you say? That’s right, we’re here in Chicago at the 2021
ASOR meeting with a host of special guest stars. The topic—conferences
and conference experiences. There are some important lessons here.

Part 1-The Ballroom Tapes
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/it-s-the-very-nearly-live-from-asor-2021-conference-with-extra-special-guests-edition-part-1-the-ballroom-tapes/
Hear what Professor Eric Cline, Dr. Matthew Adams (the one with a J.),
Dr. Yorke Rowan, and Professor Morag Kersel think about all aspects of
conference-going, the good the bad and the ugly.

Part 2-After Hours
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/it-s-the-very-nearly-live-from-asor-2021-conference-with-extra-special-guests-edition-part-2-after-hours/
What happens when a bunch of archaeologists get together in the
evening, start drinking bourbon and let their graying hair down? It’s
an after hours edition with the one and only Professor James Hardin,
who rather charmingly, can’t stay on script. He takes us to some
surprising places, including some related to archaeological
storytelling.

Part 3-The Last Waltz
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/it-s-the-very-nearly-live-from-asor-2021-conference-with-extra-special-guests-edition-part-3-the-last-waltz/
Yes, we’re still here at the archaeology conference, but now we’re
interrogating an entirely new crowd about the question of conferences,
namely Professor Andrea Berlin, Dr. Margaret Cohen and Professor
Alexandra Ratzlaff. The questions are mostly the same, but the answers
from these three leading female scholars are quite different.
 

Open Access Journal: Bulletin of the British Foundation For the Study of Arabia

[First posted in AWOL 1 November 2009. Updated 24 Novermber 2021]

Bulletin of the British Foundation For the Study of Arabia
ISSN: 1361-9144
ISSN: 2050-2036

The BFSA publishes an annual bulletin (formerly the Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies) in the spring giving information on current research, publications, field work, conferences and events in the Arabian peninsula in fields ranging from archaeology and history to natural history and the environment. It also carries feature articles and book reviews.

Submissions for short notices of ongoing or forthcoming research are welcome, as is information on interesting conferences, exhibitions and events relating to the study of the Arabian Peninsula.

 Notices are intended to raise awareness of the range and scope of current research in the Arabian Peninsula. They should be short abstracts or summaries, between 300- 700 words, followed by bibliographic references to recent publications and links to relevant department or project websites. Photographs would be welcome, too, and should be at least 300 dpi; please indicate the copyright in each case. Research notices published by the Bulletin constitute an excellent means to raise the profile of your research amongst peers and provides a platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Email your contribution to current_research@thebfsa.org.

Current and back issues can be purchased at the Seminar for Arabian Studies in July each year or from the BFSA (contact@thebfsa.org). Printed back-copies of the Bulletin are £5.00 each. Previous issues may also be downloaded free of charge in pdf format by clicking on the cover images below.

The 2020 issue is available to download here as a compressed pdf.

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The archive of Zenon

The archive of Zenon

In the 1910s an exceptional lot of more than 1,800 papyri was unearthed by the ‘sebakhin’ (local diggers searching for decayed mudbricks used as a fertilizer) in the ancient site of Philadelphia in the northeast of the Fayum region, in Egypt. This collection of documents constitutes the richest Greek archive on papyrus hitherto unearthed and dates from the mid-3rd century BC. These papers, collected in ancient times and kept together for more than 2000 years, are today held in different collections around the world. While the vast majority were acquired by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the rest entered European and American collections, from London and Manchester to Florence and Paris, from Ann Arbor to New York.

Map of the Arsinoite nome taken from The Fayum Project. Philadelphia was located on the north-eastern border.

These precious survivals have allowed scholars to reconstruct the phases of the career of the owner of these papers: Zenon, son of Agreophon, born around 285 BC and originally from Caunus (modern Dalyan), in ancient Caria (southwest of modern Turkey). Covering a period of some thirty years (261-229 BC), the archive includes private and official letters, accounts, contracts, petitions as well as a few literary texts. Besides dealing with official and business matters, some correspondence from this archive is more personal in tone, providing details on Zenon’s life, family and friends.

The documents reveal that from around 261 BC, Zenon served as a business agent and private secretary of Apollonius, the finance minister (dioiketes) of the country, advisor to King Ptolemy II Philadelphus (reigned 285 BC – 246 BC). In the first phase of his career, Zenon was travelling as a representative of Apollonius to Palestine, which at that time was under the control of Ptolemy.

Complete letter from Glaucias to Apollonius, reporting on various business matters and dated 257 BC (British Library, Papyrus 2661)

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Open Access Monograph Series: Quaderni di Layers

Quaderni di Layers 

ISSN: 2532-0289 

 

 Quaderni di Layers is a series of monographic volumes, furnished with ISBN, published online and linked to the homonymous journal

Series Editors
Riccardo Cicilloni, Carla Del Vais, Marco Giuman, Rossana Martorelli

Quaderni 1

Le tracce del passato e l'impronta del presente
Scritti in memoria di Giovanni Lilliu

Edited by Mauro Perra, Riccardo Cicilloni

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Villes du Bosphore (Cryptes à gradins. Manoir hellénistique. Ilourat)

Villes du Bosphore (Cryptes à gradins. Manoir hellénistique. Ilourat)

Publié le 23 novembre 2021 par Th. Castelli

Gajdukevich, V. F. (1981) : Bosporskie goroda (Ustupchatye sklepy. Éllinisticheskaja usad’ba. Ilurat), Leningrad [Villes du Bosphore (Cryptes à gradins. Manoir hellénistique. Ilurat)].

L’ouvrage publie les résultats des travaux des expéditions assez anciennes de l’Institut d’archéologie de l’Académie des sciences de l’URSS dirigées par V. F. Gajdukevich consacrées aux grands kourganes à gradins, à un manoir hellénistique près de Myrmékion et à la forteresse bosporane d’Ilourat.

L’ouvrage en ligne http://sno.pro1.ru/lib/gaidukevich_bosporskie_goroda/index.htm

 

Open Access Journal: Oxford Faculty of Classics Newsletter

 [First posted in AWOL 6 October 2016, updated 22 November 2021]

Oxford Faculty of Classics Newsletter

Newsletter 2021

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Open Access Journal: Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting: from the first to the seventh century (JJMJS)

[First posted in AWOL 21 October 2014, updated 21  November 2021]

Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting: from the first to the seventh century (JJMJS)
ISSN: 2374-7862 (print)
ISSN: 2374-7870 (online)

ournal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting: From the First to the Seventh Century (JJMJS) is a peer-reviewed academic open access journal, published electronically in co-operation with Hebrew University (Jerusalem), University of Oslo (Oslo), and DePaul University (Chicago).

JJMJS is an independent and scholarly journal registered as a non-profit organization in Norway (Org. no. 918437312) and does not represent any particular theological school or religious organization.

The purpose of JJMJS is to advance scholarship on a crucial period in the early history of the Jewish and Christian traditions, from the first to the seventh century, when they developed into what is today known as two world religions, mutually shaping one another as they did so. JJMJS publishes high-quality research on any topic that directly addresses or has implications for the understanding of the inter-relationship and interaction between the Jesus movement and other forms of Judaism, as well as for the processes that led to the formation of Judaism and Christianity as two related but independent religions.

The primary fields of study included in the journal's purview are: Christian Origins, New Testament Studies, Early Jewish Studies (including Philo and Josephus), the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Rabbinic Studies, Patristics, History of Ancient Christianity, Reception History, and Archaeology. Methodological diversity and innovation is encouraged.

JJMJS is governed by the editorial committee in accordance with an agreement between its three academic partner institutions. The Editor-in-Chief and the Co-editors are responsible for the academic standard and general direction of the journal.

JJMJS Issue 8 (2021) 

​Special Issue on Circumcision
In the spring of 2019, an international group of scholars came together at the University of Oslo to discuss male circumcision, under the heading “Ancient Attitudes in Light of Contemporary Questions.” The current issue of JJMJS is the result of this productive meeting. Its contributions discuss circumcision across a range of sources, from the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and other early Jewish and early Christian writings, to Greco-Roman art and imagery. The writings of Paul are the central focus in most of the articles, which is perhaps unsurprising given the importance of circumcision as a topic in several of his letters.

The “contemporary questions” in the title of the meeting relate in part to discussions surrounding male circumcision today. While these debates often center on arguments related to bodily integrity, religious freedom, and the rights of parents and children, understandings of the past and the historiography of circumcision also play a role in them. Increasing our understanding of historical attitudes and practices related to circumcision, particularly for the ideologically significant time period that is the focus of this journal, is therefore of value for informed discussion.

The second aspect of the “contemporary questions” relates more directly to the focus of this journal, which makes it such a fitting platform for the work that resulted from the meeting. The shift in scholarship that has led to understanding the Jesus movement consistently in relation to other forms of early Judaism has significant implication for how attitudes towards circumcision are studied. Previously, scholars predominantly reconstructed a specifically “Christian” understanding of circumcision and identified it as one of the breaking points between “Judaism” and “Christianity.” When sources such as Paul’s letters are read as part of the spectrum of attitudes towards circumcision that we find in early Jewish sources, particularly with an awareness of possible distinctions between eighth-day and proselyte circumcision, a different picture emerges. M Adryael Tong’s article shows the tensions in scholarship between looking for uniformity while also acknowledging diversity on the ground. She argues instead for keeping the fundamental fluidity of circumcision discourse in the Hebrew Bible and later sources consistently in view. Ryan Collman focuses on Paul’s negations of circumcision and foreskin in 1 Corinthians and Galatians. He challenges the conventional interpretation that these verses indicate Paul’s indifference to circumcision and shows how circumcision and foreskin are rather categories that are useful as points of comparison. Karin Neutel's contribution highlights the relevance of the term “foreskin” in Romans 4, which is often misunderstood as “uncircumcision,” rather than as a physical term that is a marker of religious and ethnic difference. In describing Abraham as being “in foreskin,” Paul therefore makes an entirely different argument about his faithfulness than Pauline scholarship overwhelmingly supposes. Mark Nanos argues that the phrase ἔργα νόμου in Paul denotes “rites of a custom,” specifically proselyte initiation. According to Nanos, the phrase does not indicate criticism of Torah, as has often been assumed, but is in fact based on Torah. Isaac Soon uses ancient visual culture to reconstruct possible attitudes towards circumcision among Paul’s gentile audiences, particularly in Galatians. This material suggests that circumcision was associated with sexual dysfunction and aesthetic deformity and that non-Jews would therefore have been highly unlikely to be willing to undergo circumcision. In the final contribution, Thomas R. Blanton IV discusses the French monograph on circumcision by Simon Claude Mimouni, which is often overlooked in English-language scholarship. He connects Mimouni’s work to the developments of “Paul within Judaism” and “Lived Ancient Religion” in recent scholarship. In doing so, he draws attention to the tension between “inherited” structures and the continual processing of diverse actors in relation to circumcision. By challenging existing scholarly views on circumcision and highlighting the fluid and constructed nature of circumcision discourse, this issue therefore hopes to make an important contribution to the re-evaluation of New Testament and other early Christian sources as part of early Jewish diversity, rather than as distinct from it.

Finally, I am grateful to all the participants in the Oslo meeting: Ward Blanton, Ryan Collman (with a special thanks for suggesting the title of my paper), Diana Edelman, Ada Engebrigtsen, Rebecca Harrocks, Sandra Jacobs, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, Mark Nanos, Ellen Aasland Reinertsen, Anders Runesson, Nora Stene, Isaac Soon, Matthew Thiessen, M Adryael Tong, and Holger Zellentin, whose collegial input contributed to the content of this issue and to the editors of JJMJS for their support.


Karin Neutel
Guest Editor

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