Friday, October 21, 2022

Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri: 3rd—12th Century Egypt

Edited ByMattias Brand, Eline Scheerlinck 
Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2022
eBook Published 16 October 2022
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 314
eBook ISBN 9781003287872
Subjects Humanities
OA Funder SNSF

ABSTRACT

This volume provides novel social-scientific and historical approaches to religious identifications in late antique (3rd–12th century) Egyptian papyri, bridging the gap between two academic fields that have been infrequently in full conversation: papyrology and the study of religion.

Through eleven in-depth case studies of Christian, Islamic, “pagan,” Jewish, Manichaean, and Hermetic texts and objects, this book offers new interpretations on markers of religious identity in papyrus documents written in Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. Using papyri as a window into the lives of ordinary believers, it explores their religious behavior and choices in everyday life. Three valuable perspectives are outlined and explored in these documents: a critical reflection on the concept of identity and the role of religious groups, a situational reading of religious repertoire and symbols, and a focus on speech acts as performative and efficacious utterances.

Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri offers a wide scope and comparative approach to this topic, suitable for students and scholars of late antiquity and Egypt, as well as those interested in late antique religion.

A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

chapter 1|26 pages

Introduction

Theorizing Religious Identification in Late Antique Papyri
ByMattias Brand

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part Part I|65 pages

Problematizing Religious “Identity” and the Identification of Religious Groups

chapter 2|16 pages

Christianization, “Identity,” and the Problem of Internal Commitment

Egypt III–VI CE
ByDavid Frankfurter

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chapter 4|23 pages

Lifting the Cloak of Invisibility

Identifying the Jews of Late Antique Egypt
ByArietta Papaconstantinou

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part Part II|98 pages

Reconstructing Situational Religious Identifications

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chapter 6|18 pages

Χρηστιανὸς ἔστιν

Self-Identification and Formal Categorization of the First Christians in Egypt
BySabine R. Huebner

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chapter 7|25 pages

From the Sacred to the Profane

Evidence for Multiple Social Identities in the Letters of the Nag Hammadi Codices
ByPaula Tutty

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part Part III|105 pages

Performance and Audience

chapter 9|20 pages

Aurelios Ammon from Panopolis

On Hellenistic Literary Roles and Egyptian Priestly Cloth
ByBenjamin Sippel

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chapter 10|19 pages

“The Curses Will Be Like Oil in Their Bones”

Excommunication and Curses in Bishops' Letters Beyond Late Antiquity
ByEline Scheerlinck

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chapter 12|30 pages

Social Contexts of the Biblical Quotations in the Letters of Frange

ByPrzemysław Piwowarczyk

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chapter 13|18 pages

Concluding Remarks

“The Artificers of Facts”
ByMattias Brand

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