Beyond Conflicts: Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Century CE
Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Luca Arcari: Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Cent. CE -- 1. Methodological issues -- 1.1. Constructing collective "identities" -- 2. Religious and cul...
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity
v.103 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt (Antiquity)
/ Religion
/ Culture
/ History 1-600
B Interreligiosity / Interculturality B Alexandria / Hellenistic Jews / Interfaith dialogue B Religious pluralism / History 50-600 B Early Judaism / Church |
| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology |
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Electronic books
B Conference program B Christianity and other religions Egyptian Congresses |
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Print version: Arcari, Luca: Beyond Conflicts : Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Century CE. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck,c2017. - 9783161551444 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Luca Arcari: Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Cent. CE -- 1. Methodological issues -- 1.1. Constructing collective "identities" -- 2. Religious and cultural cohabitations in Egypt and Alexandria(1st-6th cent. CE) -- 2.1. A regional approach in light of the integration between different sources -- 2.1.1. "Pervasive" cultural centres -- 2.1.2. Local reinventions of tradition -- 2.2. The limits of the "traditional" taxonomies -- 3. Structure and contents of the book -- Bibliography -- Part One: Use, (Re-)Invention And (Re-)Definitionof Discursive Practices -- Tobias Nicklas: Jewish, Christian, Greek? The Apocalypse of Peter as a Witness of Early 2nd-Cent. Christianity in Alexandria -- 1. The Apocalypse of Peter - Jewish, Christian, or other? -- 2. Results regarding the text's alleged place and context of origin -- 3. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Philippe Matthey: The Once and Future King of Egypt: Egyptian "Messianism" and the Construction of the Alexander Romance -- 1. The Egyptian origins of the Alexander Romance -- 2. "Apocalyptic" literature in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt -- 3. Apocalyptic elements in the Alexander Romance -- 4. Development of the Graeco-Egyptian "apocalypticism" -- 5. Historical theodicy in Egypt -- 6. Production of "apocalyptic" literature in ancient Egypt. A conclusion -- Bibliography -- Antonio Sena: Demonology between Celsus and Origen: A Theoretical Model of Religious Cohabitation? -- 1. Origen's education and Celsus' background -- 2. Demonology as an integration proposal -- 3. A model of cultic integration -- Bibliography -- Daniele Tripaldi: "Basilides" and "the Egyptian Wisdom:" Some Remarks on a Peculiar Heresiological Notice (Ps.-Hipp. Haer. 7.20-27). 1. Contesting authority: the meaning of a literary frame -- 2. Basilides or not Basilides? -- 3. Back to which Egypt? -- 4. A "non existing" source? -- 5. A teacher's legacy -- 6. Towards a conclusion -- Bibliography -- Thomas J. Kraus: Demosthenes and (Late) Ancient Miniature Books from Egypt: Reflections on a Category, Physical Features, Purpose and Use -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The papyrus letter, ancient rhetors, and τὸ βιβλίον (l. 6) -- 3. Ancient rhetors and miniature books - spot onfamous Demosthenes -- 3.1. Miniature books with Demosthenes put to the test -- 3.2. Summary of and conclusions drawn from 3.1. -- 4. Miniature codices as representatives of Graeco-Roman bookculture in Egypt? -- Bibliography -- Paola Buzi: Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic Tradition -- 1. Premise -- 2. Classical works in the Coptic language -- 3. The Menandri sententiae -- 4. The Sexti sententiae -- 5. The Dicta philosophorum -- Bibliography -- Part Two: Ideological Debates as Images of Culturaland Religious Cohabitations -- Bernard Pouderon: "Jewish," "Christian" and "Gnostic" Groups in Alexandria during the 2nd Cent.: Between Approval and Expulsion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The various groups -- 2.1. Being "Jewish" in Alexandria after 115 CE -- 2.2. Being "Christian" in Alexandria during the 2nd cent. CE -- 2.3. Being "Gnostic" in Alexandria during the 2nd cent. -- 3. The relationships between the groups -- 3.1. "Jews" and "Christians" -- 3.2. "Christians" and "Gnostics" -- 3.3. "Educated" Christians and pagans -- 4. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Adele Monaci Castagno: Messengers from Heaven: Divine Men and God's Men in the Alexandrian Platonism (2nd-4th Cent.) -- 1. Origen -- 2. Man or God? Discussions about Apollonius of Tyana betweenthe 3rd and 4th cent. -- 3. Pythagoras and Iamblichus -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography Mark J. Edwards: Late Antique Alexandria and the "Orient" -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Comparability: Neoplatonism and India -- 3. Continuity: Ammonius the "Saka"? -- 4. Explanatory power: Egyptian Gnosticism -- Bibliography -- Ewa Wipszycka: How Insurmountable was the Chasm between Monophysites and Chalcedonians? -- 1. Historiographical sources -- 2. Hagiographical texts and sanctuarial contexts -- 3. The Synodikon of the West Syrian Church (1204) -- 4. At the same table? Monastic environments anddoctrinal controversies -- 5. Homilies and panegyrics -- 6. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Philippe Blaudeau: Vel si non tibi communicamus, tamen amamus te. Remarques sur la description par Liberatus de Carthage des rapports entre Miaphysites et Chalcédoniens à Alexandrie (milieu Ve-milieu VIe s.) -- Bibliographie -- Part Three: Cults and Practices as Spaces for Encountersand Interactions -- Sofía Torallas Tovar: Love and Hate? Again on Dionysos in the Eyes of the Alexandrian Jews -- Bibliography -- Francesco Massa: Devotees of Serapis and Christ? A Literary Representation of Religious Cohabitations in the 4th Cent -- 1. Endgame? The destruction of the Serapeum -- 2. Why Serapis and the Christians? -- 3. Qui Serapim colunt Christiani sunt… -- 4. Serapis and Christ: new gods -- 5. And if Serapis was none other than Joseph? -- 6. Shared spaces, stolen spaces -- 7. Return to the destruction of the Serapeum, and conclusion -- Bibliography -- Mariangela Monaca: Between Cyril and Isis: Some Remarks on the Iatromantic Cults in 5th-Cent. Alexandria -- Bibliography -- Part Four: "Open" and "Closed" Groups -- Marie-Françoise Baslez: Open-air Festivals and Cultural Cohabitation in Late Hellenistic Alexandria -- 1. The political stake of royal festivities -- 2. The rejoicing festival: a mean of social interplaybetween Jews and Greeks 2.1. The Festival described in the book of Judith and the great procession ofAlexandria -- 3. Open-air festivals: a widespread custom -- 4. Criteria and requirements for truly open festivals -- Bibliography -- Livia Capponi: The Common Roots of Egyptians and Jews: Life and Meaning of an Ancient Stereotype -- 1. The Jewish-Egyptian association:a stereotype imposed by the conquerors? -- 2. A first argument for division: Philo and the riots of 38-41 -- 3. The radicalisation of the conflict: Flavian policies towards Jews and Egyptians -- 4. Josephus's interlocutor in Contra Apionem -- 5. Conclusion. Strategies of integrationand strategies of resistance -- Bibliography -- Hugo Lundhaug The Nag Hammadi Codices in the Complex World of 4th- and 5th-Cent. Egypt -- 1. The Nag Hammadi Codices and monasticism -- 2. Enemies of the "Great Church"? -- 3. The Apocalypse of Peter -- 4. Codex VII -- 5. A complex world -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part Five: The Construction of Authorityin Philosophical and Religious Schools -- Carmine Pisano: Moses "Prophet" of God in the Works of Philo, or How to Use Otherness to Construct Selfness -- 1. Philo and the "biography" of Moses -- 2. The "prophet" Moses between Judaism and Platonism -- 3. Platonism as an exegetical instrument -- 4. Prophecy and divination, or exegesis and self-definition -- Bibliography -- Giulia Sfameni Gasparro: Alexandria in the Mirror of Origen's didaskaleion: Between the Great Church, Heretics and Philosophers -- 1. Catechesis and philosophy:the two aims of Origen's didaskaleion -- 2. Debates, coexistences, conflicts:classificatory categories and historical complexity -- 3. The Contra Celsum: ideological controversy and socio-political context -- Bibliography Marco Rizzi: Cultural and Religious Exchanges in Alexandria: The Transformation of Philosopy and Exegesis in the 3rd Cent. in the Mirror of Origen -- 1. A historiographical issue -- 2. Origen's twofold biography -- 3. Origen, Ammonius and the new shapeof philosophical teaching -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- 1. Ancient writers and works -- 2. Hebrew Bible -- 3. Legal and official corpora -- 4. Manuscripts, papyri, ostraka, epigraphic materials -- 5. New Testament -- 6. Septuagint, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha ("Jewish" and"Christian" texts), Nag Hammadi texts -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Main Topics -- List of Contributors |
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| ISBN: | 3161551710 |