The Occult World

Christopher Partridge (ed.), London: Routledge, 2015

Description

This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture.

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Table of contents

Introduction 

Part One: Ancient and Medieval Sources 

Part Two: The Renaissance 

Part Three: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century 

Part Four: Nineteenth Century 

Part Five: Twentieth Century and the Contemporary World 

Part Six: Popular Culture and the Arts 

Part Seven: Beliefs, Practices, Issues, and Approaches

Link

https://www.routledge.com/The-Occult-World/Partridge/p/book/9780415695961

I manoscritti di Nag Hammadi

Nicola Denzey Lewis, 2014, Roma: Carocci, 2014

Descrizione

Gli scritti scoperti nel 1945 nella località egiziana di Nag Hammadi, fonti preziose per conoscere il cristianesimo dei primi secoli, sono densi di fascino e ricchi di stimoli per il lettore odierno. Il volume è una guida introduttiva ai testi più significativi di questa straordinaria biblioteca: con un linguaggio chiaro e accessibile, l’autrice li presenta raggruppandoli secondo criteri inerenti ai temi e ai generi letterari e li inquadra entro il più ampio contesto dei fenomeni religiosi dell’età tardoantica, sciogliendo i loro enigmi più oscuri.

(Testo della casa editrice)

Indice

Premessa all’edizione italiana di Matteo Grosso

Premessa

Come si citano i testi di Nag Hammadi

Raccolte di testi di Nag Hammadi tradotti in altre lingue moderne

Elenco dei trattati di Nag Hammadi

  1. I codici di Nag Hammadi: una biblioteca cristiana del quarto secolo e.v.

I manoscritti di Nag Hammadi: alcune caratteristiche codicologiche

Perché è stato adottato il formato del codice?

Perché una collezione di testi gnostici?

Perché possedere questa collezione è per noi un fatto straordinario?

Il livello culturale dei copisti

Chi erano gli scribi di Nag Hammadi?

Datazione e localizzazione dei codici

Si tratta davvero di testi “gnostici”?

Per approfondire

  1. La questione dello gnosticismo

È davvero esistito lo gnosticismo?

Hans Jonas e lo gnosticismo

La definizione di Messina

Ripensare lo “gnosticismo”: Michael Williams e Karen King

La scuola di Yale

Eresia e ortodossia

Quale grado di veridicità hanno le ricostruzioni degli eresiologi?

Il cristianesimo attuale e lo gnosticismo antico

Per approfondire

  1. Orizzonti religiosi dell’Impero romano

Augusto

La struttura sociale

Contesti religiosi nell’Impero romano

Altre religioni nell’Impero romano

Influssi della cultura romana sul cristianesimo

Per approfondire

  1. Il cristianesimo nel contesto dell’Impero nel secondo secolo: una visione d’insieme

Convertirsi alla fede cristiana: alcuni scenari

Integrarsi o non integrarsi? Un dilemma cristiano

Cristianesimi locali

Uno sguardo in avanti

Per approfondire

  1. Preghiere gnostiche

La Preghiera dell’apostolo Paolo

La Preghiera di ringraziamento

Le tipologie di preghiera nel mondo antico

Perché la Preghiera dell’apostolo Paolo è stata posta all’inizio del codice I?

La figura di Gesù nella Preghiera dell’apostolo Paolo

Dio nella Preghiera di ringraziamento

Gli aspetti invisibili della preghiera

Altre preghiere nei testi di Nag Hammadi

Altre preghiere fuori di Nag Hammadi

Per approfondire

  1. Valentino e i valentiniani

Ireneo a proposito di Valentino e dei valentiniani

La fede cristiana secondo Valentino

Gli scritti di Valentino

I maestri valentiniani e il tardo valentinianesimo

La fine della scuola valentiniana

Per approfondire

  1. Alcuni testi valentiniani

Trattato tripartito (NHC I,5)

Interpretazione della gnosi (NHC XI,1)

Trattato valentiniano (NHC XI,2)

Quali elementi rendono un testo “valentiniano”?

Altri elementi valentiniani nei testi di Nag Hammadi

Due iscrizioni valentiniane

Per approfondire

  1. Due vangeli valentiniani

Il Vangelo di Verità

Il Vangelo di Filippo

Per approfondire

  1. I testi legati al nome di Tommaso

Chi era Tommaso?

Esisteva una “scuola di Tommaso”?

Lo “strano caso” del Vangelo di Tommaso

Il Vangelo di Tommaso è un testo gnostico?

La fine del mondo nel Vangelo di Tommaso

Il rapporto del Vangelo di Tommaso con i vangeli canonici

Che cosa risale al secondo secolo in questa collezione di detti?

Tommaso contro Giovanni: una polemica alle origini del cristianesimo?

Gnosi e conoscenza di sé nel Vangelo di Tommaso

Il gemello di Gesù

Per approfondire

  1. Lo gnosticismo setiano

Perché gli eresiologi non ci aiutano a conoscere lo gnosticismo setiano

Come riconoscere un (testo) setiano

Tipologie di testi setiani

Quattro caratteristiche fondamentali dello gnosticismo setiano

Le Tre stele di Set

Alla ricerca degli inafferrabili setiani

Per approfondire

  1. “In principio”: due racconti della creazione

L’Ipostasi degli arconti: la storia del testo

Sull’origine del mondo: la storia del testo

La relazione letteraria tra l’Ipostasi degli arconti Sull’origine del mondo

La natura degli arconti nell’Ipostasi degli arconti e nel trattato Sull’origine del mondo

Questi trattati sono riprese della Genesi o sono contro la Genesi?

Dubbi e interrogativi sul libro della Genesi

Riflessioni e risposte

Leggere la Genesi nell’antichità

Sesso e potere: lo stupro di Eva

Violenza e discendenza: l’origine di un popolo

Da dove proviene la tripartizione del genere umano presente in questi testi?

L’intronizzazione di Sabaoth

La conclusione della storia

Per approfondire

  1. Un classico dello gnosticismo

I manoscritti dell’Apocrifo di Giovanni

Il Libro segreto di Giovanni e le sue rivelazioni “non così segrete”

La teologia apofatica e il problema della creazione

La struttura del cosmo

La creazione di Ialdabaoth e il pentimento di Sophia

La creazione del genere umano

L’esegesi biblica nell’Apocrifo di Giovanni

L’inno a Pronoia

Le vie per uscire dalla schiavitù

L’autore e il suo pubblico

Per approfondire

  1. Un classico testo liturgico

La funzione e la struttura del testo

La cosmologia

Il cosmo inferiore e gli esseri che lo popolano

Il racconto di una storia sacra in una celebrazione setiana

Le serie vocaliche

Le tre discese di Set nel mondo

Il battesimo

Il Vangelo degli Egiziani è un testo cristiano?

Per approfondire

  1. Confrontarsi con la morte

Concezioni dell’aldilà nell’Impero romano

Il problema della morte nei testi di Nag Hammadi

La risurrezione

Il martirio

L’aldilà

La funzione dei sacramenti

Le pratiche funebri nell’Impero

I rituali funebri gnostici

Per approfondire

  1. Decostruzione del “femminile divino”

La struttura narrativa di Tuono: mente perfetta

La Protennoia trimorfe

Detti sapienziali e detti in prima persona

Chi è Protennoia/Ennoia?

Il finale della Protennoia trimorfe

La Protennoia trimorfe e il Vangelo di Giovanni

Tuono: mente perfetta e la violenza presente nella società

La questione del pubblico

Considerazioni conclusive

Per approfondire

  1. Perché in questa biblioteca cristiana ci sono anche testi pagani?

Il Corpus Hermeticum

Il Discorso sull’Ogdoade e l’Enneade

Asclepio

Alcuni temi ermetici

Per approfondire

  1. Tradizioni apostoliche in conflitto

La Lettera di Pietro a Filippo

Pietro e la tradizione dei dodici apostoli

Pietro (e Paolo) negli Atti degli Apostoli

Gli Atti di Pietro e dei dodici discepoli

L’allegoria negli Atti di Pietro e dei dodici discepoli

L’Apocalisse di Pietro

Questi testi petrini sono gnostici?

Visioni e autorità: le apparizioni del Risorto

Per approfondire

  1. L’Apocalisse! Visioni della fine del mondo

Il contesto sociale

La letteratura apocalittica giudaica

Caratteri della letteratura apocalittica

La fine del mondo?

Le apocalissi di Nag Hammadi

Le sezioni apocalittiche presenti negli altri scritti di Nag Hammadi

Per approfondire

  1. Le apocalissi setiano-platoniche

Filosofia greca e gnosticismo

Che cosa c’è di apocalittico nelle apocalissi setiane?

Il battesimo nelle apocalissi setiane

Per approfondire

  1. Oltre Nag Hammadi

Il codice Tchacos

Il Vangelo di Giuda

La cosmologia del Vangelo di Giuda

Il Vangelo di Giuda è setiano?

Che cosa ci dice il Vangelo di Giuda del cristianesimo proto-ortodosso?

Un vangelo senza la salvezza?

Il Vangelo di Maria Maddalena

Che cosa ci dice il Vangelo di Maria del cristianesimo proto-ortodosso?

Per approfondire

Glossario

Indice analitico

Link

http://www.carocci.it/index.php?option=com_carocci&task=schedalibro&isbn=9788843095964&Itemid=72

Religion and Competition in Antiquity

 Engels D., Van Nuffelen P., Leuven: Peeters, 2014

Description

The notion of competition has become crucial to our understanding of Greek and Roman religion and is often invoked to explain religious changes and to describe the relationship between various cults. This volume seeks to raise our awareness of what the notion implies and to test its use for the analysis of ancient religions. The papers range from Classical Greece, Hellenistic Babylon, Rome and the Etruscans, to Late Antiquity and the rise of Islam. They seek to determine how much can be gained in each individual case by understanding religious interaction in terms of rivalry and competition. In doing so, the volume hopes to open a more explicit debate on the analytical tools with which ancient religion is currently being studied.

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Table of contents

Religion and competition in antiquity: an introduction – David Engels, Peter van Nuffelen

Religious rivalry in Seleucid Babylonia : Marduk of Babylon versus Anu of Uruk – Tom Boiy

Oracles and oracles sellers: an ancient market in futures – Esther Eidinow

Liberty versus religious tradition: some « impious » thinkers in ancient Greece – Aikaterini Lefka

Etrusca disciplina and Roman religion: from initial hesitation to a privileged place – Dominique Briquel

Cohabitation or competition in Ostia under the Empire? – Françoise van Haeperen

The end of open competition? : religious disputations in late antiquity – Peter van Nuffelen

Competing coenobites: food and drink in the Lives of Theodoretus of Cyrrhus – Veit Rosenberger

A time for prayer and a time for pleasure: Christianity’s struggle with the secular world – Ine Jacobs

The conquest of the past: Christian attitudes towards civic history – Aude Busine

Historising religion between spiritual continuity and friendly takeover: salvation history and religious competition during the first millennium A.D. – David Engels

Oriental religions and the conversion of the Roman Empire: the views of Ernest Renan and of Franz Cumont on the transition from traditional paganism to Christianity – Danny Praet

Link

https://oxfordre.com/religion/oso/viewentry/10.1093$002facrefore$002f9780199340378.001.0001$002facrefore-9780199340378-e-114;jsessionid=0EDA53FE65BC7FA87DA3091F60536E33

Magie de la comparaison

Et autres études d’histoire des religions

Jonathan Smith, Genève: Labor et Fides, 2014

Description

Jonathan Z. Smith est l’un des plus remarquables historiens des religions de l’ère contemporaine. En pratiquant un comparatisme inattendu entre des religions très différentes dans le temps et l’espace, cet Américain légèrement excentrique a suscité de nouvelles manières de comprendre les mythes et les rites. Pour ce savant tout à la fois hypermoderne et technophobe, la religion est un mot et rien d’autre. Il sert à décrire des relations que des hommes entretiennent avec des acteurs surhumains dont la culture postule l’existence. Dans ce sens, il n’existe pas de religion pure et originelle mais des sociétés qui reprennent à leurs comptes des représentations de mythes qui elles-mêmes en relisent de plus anciennes. Avec cet ouvrage qui reprend sept articles majeurs écrits entre 1974 et 2004, le public français a enfin accès direct à Jonathan Z. Smith sur des points décisifs de sa pensée. Un entretien biographique avec les traducteurs les ponctue, dans lequel Jonathan Z. Smith évoque notamment le passé et l’avenir de sa discipline. La recherche, à ses yeux, doit davantage se déployer dans le voisinage immédiat de l’historien des religions qui y trouvera des institutions et des mythes à décrypter aussi intéressants que ceux qu’il peut partir analyser au bout du monde.

(Texte de la maison d’édition)

Table des matières

IMAGINER LA RELIGION.

RELIGION, RELIGIONS, RELIGIEUX.

MAGIE DE LA COMPARAISON.

ICI, LA, OU QUE CE SOIT.

LA TOPOGRAPHIE DU SACRE.

UNE QUESTION DE CLASSE.

UNE CARTE N’EST PAS LE TERRITOIRE.

JONATHAN Z SMITH PAR LUI MEME

Link

https://www.laboretfides.com/fr_fr/index.php/presentation/collection/histoire-des-religions/magie-de-la-comparaison.html

Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism

Oracles of the Gods

Crystal Addey, London: Routledge, 2014

Description

Why did ancient philosophers consult oracles, write about them, and consider them to be an important part of philosophical thought and practice? This book explores the extensive links between oracles and philosophy in Late Antiquity, particularly focusing on the roles of oracles and other forms of divination in third and fourth century CE Neoplatonism. Examining some of the most significant debates between pagan philosophers and Christian intellectuals on the nature of oracles as a central yet contested element of religious tradition, Addey focuses particularly on Porphyry’s Philosophy from Oracles and Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis — two works which deal extensively with oracles and other forms of divination. This book argues for the significance of divination within Neoplatonism and offers a substantial reassessment of oracles and philosophical works and their relationship to one another. With a broad interdisciplinary approach, encompassing Classics, Ancient Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies and Ancient History, Addey draws on recent anthropological and religious studies research which has challenged and re-evaluated the relationship between rationality and ritual.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

  1. Oracles and Philosophy;
  2. Oracles, Allegory and Mystery Cults
  3. Debating oracles: pagan and Christian perspectives
  4. Debating oracles: Porphyry’s Letter to Anebo and Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis
  5. Divination, rationality and ritual in Neoplatonism
  6. Divine inspiration, possession and contact with the gods in Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis
  7. Divination and theurgy in Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis
  8. Manifesting the gods: oracles as symbola

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Divination-and-Theurgy-in-Neoplatonism-Oracles-of-the-Gods/Addey/p/book/9780367882198

Plotino, escultor de mitos

Loraine Oliveira, São Paulo: Annablume, 2014

Descrição

O estudo dos mitos em Plotino é fundamental para a compreensão do debate entre Plotino e os gnósticos. Um novo livro sobre os principais mitos abordados nos escritos de Plotino foi publicado em 2013 por Loraine Oliveira : Plotino, escultor de mitos, Annablume, Classica, Brasilia.

(Texto da editora)

Sumário

APRESENTAÇÃO

INTRODUÇÃO

NOTA PRELIMINAR

  1. METÁFORAS, FIGURAS FILOSÓFICAS
  2. DA PROCESSÃO E DA CONTEMPLAÇÃO
  3. DO TEMPLO E DA ESCULTURA
  4. TIPOS DE DISCURSO
  5. ORIGEM E LIMITES DA LINGUAGEM
  6. A ANALOGIA
  7. A PERSUASÃO
  8. ARTIFÍCIOS DE REDAÇÃO E PROCEDIMENTOS RETÓRICOS

 

  1. DISCURSOS MÍTICOS
  2. O MITO E O TEMPO
  3. O LÓGOS DIANOÉTICO E OS DISCURSOS SENSÍVEIS
  4. CONHECER O TEMPO
  5. O MITO DO TEMPO
  6. A DIALÉTICA
  7. O TEMPO DO MITO

 

  1. DISCURSOS SOBRE AFRODITE E EROS
  2. FACES DE AFRODITE
  3. DUPLA AFRODITE
  4. A PRIMEIRA AFRODITE
  5. O PRIMEIRO EROS: DEUS
  6. A SEGUNDA AFRODITE
  7. O SEGUNDO EROS: DAÍMON
  8. O MITO DE POROS E PENÍA
  9. O SIGNIFICADO FILOSÓFICO DAS FIGURAS MÍTICAS
  10. A RECOMPOSIÇÃO DO MITO

 

  1. DISCURSOS SOBRE URANO, CRONOS E ZEUS
  2. A GENEALOGIA EM V, 1 [10] 7, 30-35
  3. A GENEALOGIA EM V, 8 [31], 12-13

 

  1. FIGURAS MÍTICAS
  2. O VOCABULÁRIO DO MITO
  3. IMAGEM E IMAGINAÇÃO
  4. O CARÁTER ENIGMÁTICO DO MITO
  5. TERMOS DA FAMÍLIA DE AÎNOS EM PLOTINO
  6. PLATÃO E OS ANTIGOS FALAM POR ENIGMAS
  7. MÍSTICA: INTERPRETAÇÃO ALEGÓRICA DE MITOS E MISTÉRIOS

 

  1. FIGURAS DA ALMA
  2. DIONISO DIANTE DO ESPELHO
  3. DE DIONISO A PANDORA: A DESCIDA DAS ALMAS
  4. O MITO DE PROMETEU E PANDORA
  5. VERSÕES DO MITO DE PROMETEU ANTES DE PLOTINO
  6. UMA FIGURA ANÔNIMA

 

  1. ZEUS, FIGURA POLISSÊMICA
  2. ZEUS: DEMIURGO E ALMA DO MUNDO
  3. ZEUS, MINOS E DÍKE
  4. O ZEUS DE FÍDIAS
  5. DA ESCULTURA AO MITO: A FACULDADE DA IMAGINAÇÃO

 

CONCLUSÃO

BIBLIOGRAFIA

  1. FONTES PRIMÁRIAS
    • TEXTO GREGO DAS ENÉADAS
    • TRADUÇÕES COMPLETAS DAS ENÉADAS
    • TRADUÇÕES DE TRATADOS ISOLADOS E EDIÇÕES INCOMPLETAS
    • OUTROS AUTORES ANTIGOS
  2. FONTES SECUNDÁRIAS
  3. LÉXICOS E DICIONÁRIOS

 

APÊNDICE:

CATÁLOGO SIMPLIFICADO DOS MITOS DAS ENÉADAS

Link

http://www.annablume.com.br/loja/product_info.php?products_id=1886&osCsid=ih6nkjj8p3h

European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism

L’Esotérisme dans l’Antiquité

Description et organisation

Un nouveau site web est en ligne pour tout ceux qui s’intéressent aux doctrines philosophico-religieuses qui nonobstant soient souvent considérées comme marginales dans l’histoire de la philosophie platonicienne de l’Antiquité tardive, ont joué un rôle très important dans celle-ci.

Voici les infos données dans l’onglet « About » : « Ancient Esotericism.org is the website for the Network for the Study of Ancient Esotericism (NSEA), a thematic network associated with the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE). NSEA specializes in the study of esoteric phenomena of the ancient period and provides contact for specialists of ancient esoteric thought, history, and literature.

This website is intended as a resource for scholars and students. While the ancient sources (Gnostic, theurgic, Neoplatonic, Hermetic, etc.) of Western Esotericism possess enormous importance for the development of esoteric currents from the fourteenth century onwards, there remains only a minimum of interaction between the antiquity experts and their (proto)-modern colleagues. The Network therefore is intended to:

1) introduce scholarship on ancient esotericism to students of Western Esotericism,

2) serve as a forum in which to exchange ideas, notes and references, etc. outside of other professional bodies which are not concerned with esotericism per se,

3) to coordinate study and workshops with other working groups on the subject, such as the Society of Biblical Literature’s Section on Esotericism and Mysticism in Antiquity, and

4) (and most importantly) to provide a junction of the many resources online that can serve as aids in the study of this fascinating and difficult material (dictionaries, textual corpora, blogs, etc.) ».

Voici les onglets thématiques du site :

LEM/École Pratique des Hautes Études

Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive

Description et organisation

Pour accéder à la base de données « Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive » qui a été crée avec ce carnet de recherches cliquez sur http://philognose.org. Cette base de données permet de réaliser des recherches croisées entre les corpus philosophiques, gnostiques, hermétistes et chaldaïques, portant sur le vocabulaire, les doctrines et la bibliographie afférente.

(Texte des organisateurs)

Link

https://platonismes.huma-num.fr/ 

Practicing Gnosis

Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi,

Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature

April DeConick, Gregory Shaw, and John D. Turner, Leiden: Brill, 2013

Description

Ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy were central features of Gnosticism, and yet Gnostic practices remain understudied. This anthology is meant to fill in this gap and address more fully what the ancient Gnostics were doing. While previously we have studied the Gnostics as intellectuals in pursuit of metaphysical knowledge, the essays in this book attempt to understand the Gnostics as ecstatics striving after religious experience, as prophets seeking revelation, as mystics questing after the ultimate God, as healers attempting to care for the sick and diseased. These essays demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. They were after religious experiences that relied on practices. The book is organized comparatively in a history-of-religions approach with sections devoted to Initiatory, Recurrent, Therapeutic, Ecstatic, and Philosophic Practices. This book celebrates the brilliant career of Birger A. Pearson.

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Table de matières

Introduction

For Birger Pearson: A Scholar Who Both Studies and Embodies Syncretism

Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, Religionswissenschaft, Piano, Oboe and Bourbon

Birger Pearson: Scholar, Professor and Mentor

Birger Albert Pearson A Bibliography

The Road for the Soul Is through the Planets: The Mysteries of the Ophians Mapped

Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras

The Gospel of Philip as Gnostic Initiatory Discourse

Becoming Invisible: Rending the Veil and the Hermeneutic of Secrecy in the Gospel of Philip

Ritual in the Second Book of Jeu

Death on the Nile: Egyptian Codices, Gnosticism, and Early Christian Books of the Dead

Going to Church with the Valentinians

Practicing “Repentance” on the Path to Gnosis in Exegesis on the Soul

Opening the Way of Writing: Semiotic Metaphysics in the Book of Thoth

“I Worship and Glorify”: Manichaean Liturgy and Piety in Kellis’ Prayer of the Emanations

The Manichaean Weekly Confession Ritual

Ritual Ingenuity in the Mandaean Scroll of Exalted Kingship

Natural, Magical, Scientific or Religious? A Guide to Theories of Healing

Astrological Medicine in Gnostic Traditions

The Persistence of Ritual in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels: P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685

Image and Word: Performative Ritual and Material Culture in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls

From Baptismal Vision to Mystical Union with the One: The Case of the Sethian Gnostics

Marcosian Rituals for Prophecy and Apolytrosis

Ritual in the Hekhalot Literature

The Platonizing Sethian Gnostic Interpretation of Plato’s Sophist

Did Plotinus “Friends” Still Go to Church? Communal Rituals and Ascent Apocalypses

The Meaning of “One”: Plurality and Unity in Plotinus and Later Neoplatonism

Theurgy and the Platonist’s Luminous Body

Index

Lien

https://brill.com/view/title/24418

Religious Competition in the Third Century CE:

Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World

Nathaniel DesRosiers,‎ Jordan D Rosenblum,‎ Lily Vuong, (eds), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Supplement edition, 2013

Description

The essays in this work examine issues related to authority, identity, or change in religious and philosophical traditions of the third century CE. This century is of particular interest because of the political and cultural developments and conflicts that occurred during this period, which in turn drastically changed the social and religious landscape of the Roman world. The specific focus of this volume edited by Jordan D. Rosenblum, Lily Vuong, and Nathaniel DesRosiers is to explore these major creative movements and to examine their strategies for developing and designating orthodoxies and orthopraxies. Contributors were encouraged to analyze or construct the intersections between parallel religious and philosophical communities of the third century, including points of contact either between or among Jews, Christians, pagans, and philosophers. As a result, the discussions of the material contained within this volume are both comparative in nature and interdisciplinary in approach, engaging participants who work in the fields of Religious Studies, Philosophy, History and Archaeology. The overall goal was to explore dialogues between individuals or groups that illuminate the mutual competition and influence that was extant among them, and to put forth a general methodological framework for the study of these ancient dialogues. These religious and philosophical dialogues are not only of great interest and import in their own right, but they also can help us to understand how later cultural and religious developments unfolded.

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Table of content

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I: Assessing Religious Competition in the Third Century : Methods and Approaches

Daniel C. Ullucci – What Did He Say ? The Ideas of Religious Experts and the 99 %

Heidi Marx-Wolf – Pythagoras the Theurgist Porphyry and Iamblichus on the Role of Ritual in the Philosophical Life

Arthur P. Urbano – Narratives of Decline and Renewal in the Writing of Philosophical History

Steven J. Larson – The Trouble with Religious Tolerance in Roman Antiquity

Kevin M. McGinnis – Sanctifying Interpretation The Christian Interpreter as Priest in Origen

Andrew B. McGowan – Rehashing the Leftovers of Idols Cyprian and Early Christian Constructions of Sacrifice

II: Ritual Space and Practice

Gregg E. Gardner – Competitive Giving in the Third Century CE Early Rabbinic Approaches to Greco-Roman Civic Benefaction

Nathaniel P. DesRosiers – Oath and Anti-Oath Alternating Forms of Community Building in the Third Century

Jordan D. Rosenblum and Daniel C. Ullucci – Qualifying Rabbinic Ritual Agents Cognitive Science and the Early Rabbinic Kitchen

Lily C. Vuong – The Temple Persists Collective Memories of the Jewish Temple in Christian Narrative Imagination

Jacob A. Latham – Battling Bishops, the Roman Aristocracy, and the Contestation of Civic Space in Late Antique Rome

III: Modes of Competition

Karen B. Stern – Inscription as Religious Competition in Third-Century Syria

Gil P. Klein – Spatial Struggle Intercity Relations and the Topography of Intra-Rabbinic Competition

Ari Finkelstein – The Use of Jews in Julian’s Program “Dying for the Law” in the Letter to Theodorus – A Case Study

Todd S. Berzon – Heresiology as Ethnography Theorising Christian Difference

Todd C. Krulak – The Damascian Dichotomy Contention and Concord in the History of Late Platonism

Ross S. Kraemer – Gendering (the) Competition Religious Competition in the Third Century : Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World

List of Abbreviations

Collected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Link

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