L’Esotérisme dans l’Antiquité : un nouveau site web

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
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 :

Base de données – Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
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/ 

Dieu sans la puissance

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Dieu sans la puissance

Dunamis et Energeia chez Aristote et Plotin

Gwenaëlle Aubry, Paris: Vrin, 2007

Description

Comptés par Aristote comme l’un des principaux sens de l’être, l’en-puissance et l’en-acte ouvrent dans la Métaphysique une voie négligée, mais qui permet peut-être d’en dépasser les lectures aporétiques comme les réductions ontothéologiques. C’est cette voie que l’on propose de suivre, en examinant au fil du texte, et dans leur corrélation, la constitution du projet métaphysique d’Aristote et celle du couple conceptuel de la dunamis et de l’energeia. Irréductibles tant à la puissance et à l’action qu’à la matière et à la forme, l’en-puissance et l’en-acte paraissent à même de fonder une ontologie unitaire, qui se dévoile aussi comme une ontologie axiologique, identifiant en l’acte le mode d’être du bien, en l’en-puissance son mode d’action. Cette ontologie porte une pensée singulière du divin : acte, et non « forme pure », sans puissance, mais non pas impuissant, le premier moteur aristotélicien échappe à l’alternative entre le Dieu tout-puissant de la tradition métaphysique et le Dieu faible des inquiétudes contemporaines. Qu’en est-il, alors, du devenir de cette ontologie? On tente de mesurer la portée du geste par lequel Plotin désigne son premier principe non plus comme acte mais comme puissance de tout, dunamis pantôn. Avec lui s’inaugurent peut-être la subversion et l’oubli d’une pensée pour laquelle l’être, et le divin, ne se confondent ni avec la puissance ni avec la présence.

(Text from the publisher)

Table des matières

http://www.vrin.fr/tdm/TdM_9782711619061.pdf

Link

http://www.vrin.fr/book.php?code=9782711619061

Practicing Gnosis: Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature

Publié le par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

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.

(Text from the publisher)

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

Oracles Chaldaïques et Gnosticisme

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Le présent répertoire bibliographique contient la liste d’articles cités dans la rubrique « gnostiques » de l’article de Michel Tardieu, « Les Oracles chaldaïques 1891-2011 », dans Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy. Mysticism, Magic and Platonism in the Later Roman Empire. Troi­sième édition par M. Tardieu, avec un supplément « Les Oracles chaldaï­ques 1891-2011 », Paris, 2011 (Kairo1 1956, Paris2 1978).

1973

M. Tardieu, « Les trois Stèles de Seth. Un écrit gnostique retrouvé à Nag Hammadi », Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 57, 1973, p. 545-575.

1975

« ψυχαῖος σπινθήρ. Histoire dʼune métaphore dans la tradition platonicienne jusquʼà Eckhart », Revue des études augustiniennes, 21, 1975, p. 225-255.

1983

L. Abramowski, « Nag Hammadi 8, 1 ‘Zostrianus’, das Anonymum Brucianum, Plotin Enn. 2, 9 (33) », dans H. D. Blume et F. Mann (éd.), Platonismus und Christentum : Festschrift für Heinrich Dörrie, Münster Westfalen, Aschendorff (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, Ergänzungsband 10), 1983, p. 1-10. [Réimprimé dans Formula and Context. Studies in Early Christian Thought (Collected Studies), Essay XII, Hampshire, Variorum, 1992].

É. des Places, « Notes sur quelques Oracles Chaldaïques », dans C. Froidefond (éd.), Mélanges É. Delebecque, Aix-en-Provence, Publications de lʼUniversité de Provence, 1983, p. 319-329.

1988

J. Turner, « The Gnostic Threefold Path to Enligthtenment », Novum Testamentum, 22, 1980, p. 324-351; M. Tardieu, « La conception de Dieu dans le manichéisme », dans R. Van den Broek, T. Baarda, J. Mansfeld (éd.), Knowledge of God in the Graeco-Roman World, Leiden, Brill (EPRO 112), 1988, p. 262-270.

1991 

J. Turner, « The Figure of Hecate and Dynamic Emanationism in the Chaldean Oracles, Sethian Gnosticism and Neoplatonism », The Second Century Journal, 7, 1991, p. 221-232.

1992

R. Majercik, « The Existence-Life-Intellect Triad in Gnosticism and Neoplatonism », Classical Quaterly, 42, 1992, p. 475-488.

1996

E. Thomassen, The Spiritual Seed, The Church of the ‘Valentinians’, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 60, Leiden, Brill, 1996, p. 298-307.

2000

C. O. Tommasi, « Tripotens in unalitate spiritus : Mario Vittorino e la gnosi », Koinonia, 20, 1996, p. 53-75 ;

Guerra, « Porfirio editore di Plotino e la “paideia antignostica” », Patavium, 15, 2000, p. 111-137.

2002

C. O. Tommasi, « Viae negationis della dossologia divina nel medioplatonismo e nello gnosticismo sethiano (con echi in Mario Vittorino) », dans Fr. Calabri (éd.), Arrhetos Theos. Lʼineffabilità del primo principio nel medio platonismo, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2002, p. 119-154.

2005

L. Abramowski, « Nicänismus und Gnosis im Rom des Bischofs Liberius : Der Fall des Marius Victorinus », Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, 8, 2005, p. 513-566 (compte-rendu de M. Tardieu de 1996)

2006

L. Abramowski, « ʻAudi, ut dicoʼ. Literarische Beobachtungen und chronologische Erwägungen zu Marius Victorinus und den « platonisierenden » Nag Hammadi-Traktaten», Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, 117, 2006, p. 145-168.

M. Roberge, « La dynamis dans les Oracles Chaldaïques et la Paraphrase de Sem (NHC VII, 1) », dans L. Painchaud, P.-H. Poirier (éd.), Actes du colloque « LʼÉvangile selon Thomas et les textes de Nag Hammadi », Québec, Peeters (Bibliothèque Copte de Nag Hammadi, Études 9), 2006, p. 473-516.

J. Turner, « The Gnostic Sethians and Middle Platonism : Interpretations of Timaeus and Parmenides », Vigiliae Christianae, 60, 2006, p. 9-64.

2010

J.-D. Dubois, « La forme de la matière selon la démiurgie valentinienne et les Oracles chaldaïques », dans H. Seng et M. Tardieu (éd.), Die Chaldaeischen Orakel : Kontext – Interpretation – Rezeption, Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010, p. 179-192.

Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy I

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy I

John P. Anton, Albany: Suny Press, 1971

Description

The essays in this volume treat a wide variety of fundamental topics and problems in ancient Greek philosophy. The scope of the section on pre-Socratic thought ranges over the views which these thinkers have on such areas of concern as religion, natural philosophy and science, cosmic periods, the nature of elements, theory of names, the concept of plurality, and the philosophy of mind. The papers dealing with the Platonic dialogues examine with unusual care a great number of central themes and discuss them in considerable depth: problems in language and logic, myth, reason, hypothesis, eros, friendship, reason, morality, society, art, the nature of soul, and immortality; in addition, they offer fresh discussions on a number of basic morphological, methodological, and philological issues related to philosophical arguments and introduce new aspects for a critical reexamination of controversies surrounding the doctrines and the authenticity of certain Platonic works. The essays on the philosophy of Aristotle are closely reasoned analyses of such basic themes as the universality of the sensible, the nature of kinesis, the problem of future contingencies, the meaning of qualitative change, the doctrine of phantasia, the essence of intelligence and the metaphysical foundations for the ethical life. The essays on post-Aristotelian developments in ancient philosophy offer challenging and well-documented discussions on topics in the history of ancient logic, categorical thought, the ethical doctrines of ancient Scepticism, epistemological issues in the physical theory of the Epicureans, and basic concepts in the metaphysics of the neo-platonists.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Introduction

Journal Abbreviations

  1. Pre-Socratics

Religion and Natural Philosophy in Empedocle’s Doctrine of the Soul – Charles H. Kahn

Cosmic Periods in the Philosophy of Empedocles – Edwin L. and Minar, Fr.

Mind’s Commitment to the Real: Parmenides B8. 34-41 – Alexander P. D. Mourelatos

The Problem of Anaxagoras – Margaret E. Reesor

Empirical Aspects of Xenophanes’ Theology – H. A. T. Reiche

Anaximander and the Problem of the Earth’s Immobility – John Robinson

A Zenonian Argument Against Plurality – Gregory Vlastos

Parmenides on Names – Leonard Woodbury

2. Plato

The Argument from Opposities in Republic V – R. E. Allen

Gorgias and the Socratic Principle Nemo Sua Sponte Peccat – Guido Calogero

Dreaming and Waking in Plato – David Gallop

Techne and Morality in the Gorgias – Robert W. Hall

On the “Gold-Example” in Plato’s Timaeus (50A5-B5) – Edward N. Lee

Some Observations Concerning Plato’s Lysis – Donald Norman Levin

Language, Plato, and Logic – Ronald B. Levinson

Reason and Eros in the “Ascent”-Passage of the Symposium – J. M. E. Moravcsik

The Unity of the Laches – Michael J. O’Brien

The Two States in Plato’s Republic – Martin Ostwald

Supporting Themes in the Symposium – George Kimball Plochmann

The Argument for Immortality in Plato’s Phaedrus – Thomas M. Robinson

Plato’s Hypothesis and the Upward Path – Thomas G. Rosenmeyer

Reply to Dr. Levinson – Rosamond Kent Sprague

The Creation Myth in Plato’s Timaeus – Leonardo Tarán

The Philosophical Passage in the Seventh Platonic Letter and the Problem of Plato’s “Esoteric” Philosophy – Kurt von Fritz

3. Aristotle

The Metaphysical Foundations for Aristotle’s Ethics – Thomas Gould

The Universality of the Sensible in the Aristotelian Noetic – Joseph Owens

Aristotle on κίνησις – Arthur L. Peck

Aristotle’s Treatment of φαντασία – D. A. Rees

Notes on Aristotle De anima 3.5 – John M. Rist

Aristotle’s Doctrine of Future Contingencies – Richard Taylor

The Aristotelian Doctrine of Qualitative Change in Physics VII, 3 – G. Verbeke

4. Post- Aristotelian Philosophy

Ancient Interpretations of Aristotle’s Doctrine of Homonyma – John P. Anton

Οὐ μᾶλλον and the Antecedents of Ancient Scepticism – Phillip DeLacy

Knowledge of Atoms and Void in Epicureanism – David J. Furley

Body and Soul in the Philsophy of Plotinus – A. N. M. Rich

Subject Index

Name Index

Link

https://www.sunypress.edu/p-220-essays-in-ancient-greek-philoso.aspx

Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

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.

(Text from the publisher)

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

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/article/abs/religious-competition-in-the-third-century-ce-jews-christians-and-the-grecoroman-world-edited-by-jordan-d-rosenblum-lily-c-young-and-nathaniel-p-desrosiers-supplements-to-journal-of-ancient-judaism-15-pp-260-gottingen-vandenhoeck-and-ruprecht-2014-7999-978-3-525-55068-7/CE317EF95CAE3D39D64AB1AEE9D941CF

Practicing Gnosis Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson

Publié le par Giulia Bertoli Miraglia

Practicing Gnosis

Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi,

Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature.

Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson

April D. 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.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Front Matter

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

Link

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

Priests and Prophets among Pagans, Jews and Christians

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Priests and Prophets among Pagans, Jews and Christians

Dignas B., Parker R., Stroumsa G.G. (eds), Leuven: Peeters, 2013

Description

The emperor Julian pointed out that the duties of priesthood were better understood among ‘the impious Galileans’ (i.e. Christians) than among his pagan contemporaries. Like the emperor, the essays in this volume look in both directions. Its pages are populated by very diverse figures: Plutarch, Aelius Aristides, Alexander of Abonouteichos, Daniel the Stylite, Gregory of Nazianzus, Shenoute of Atripe, Mani, Muhammad, and a host of anonymous Greek and Roman priests, prophets, and diviners. The priests of second temple Judaism are considered too. Both in the Greco-Roman and the early Christian worlds the neat division between priests and prophets proves hard to sustain. But in terms of fame and influence a strong contrast emerges between Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian prophets; this is why it is only among Jews and Christians that ‘false prophets’ are feared. Two recurrent preoccupations are the relation of priests and prophets to secular power, and the priest/prophet not as reality but as idea, an imagined figure. Leading scholars of the religions of antiquity come together in this wide-ranging and innovative volume.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Preface

Notes on Contributors

R. PARKER, Introduction

J. SCHEID, Priests and Prophets in Rome

T. RAJAK, Investment in/of the Jerusalem Priesthood in the Second Temple and Beyond

N. MCLYNN, Aelius Aristides and the Priests

B. DIGNAS, Greek Priests in the First Three Centuries CE: Traditional, Diverse, Wholly New?

N. BELAYCHE, Priests as Diviners: An Impact on Religious Changes in Imperial Anatolia?

J.N. BREMMER, The Representation of Priests and Priestesses in the Pagan and Christian Greek Novel

S. ELM, Priest and Prophet: Gregory of Nazianzus’s Concept of Christian Leadership as Theosis

K. TRAMPEDACH, Daniel Stylites and Leo I: an Uneasy Relationship between Saint and Emperor

G.G. STROUMSA, False Prophets of Early Christianity

Index of names, subjects and passages.

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/database/byz/entry/byz.62473d6d-6bbf-47c0-812e-b03d7390da1d/html

Der Mittelplatonismus (Wege der Forschung)

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Der Mittelplatonismus 

Wege der Forschung

Clemens Zintzen (ed.), Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1981

Descrizione

Comme les autres volumes de la collection, celui-ci reproduit des études de divers auteurs qui étaient disséminées dans plusieurs ouvrages on revues et qui, réunies, présentent les divers aspects d’une question. Il s’agit dans le cas présent de l’histoire du platonisme depuis le Ie. siècle avant J.-C. jusqu’au IIe. après. Toutes sont en allemand, qu’elles aient été écrites dans cette langue ou traduites pour la circonstance.  Le choix de Cl. Zintzen est intéressant: les travaux qu’il a retenus comptent effectivement parmi les meilleurs ou les plus significatifs sur le sujet; ils concernent Eudore (J. M. Dillon); Philon (P. Boyancé et W. Theiler); Gaios (K. Praechter); Albinos (H. Cherniss, J. H. Loenen, H. A. Wolfson, J. M. Whittaker, R. M. Jones, A. N. M. Rich, J. M. Rist); Apulée (Cl. Morechini, R. Mortley, G. Barra); le commentaire anonyme sur le Théétète (K. Praechter); Justin et le platonisme chrétien (C. Andresen, N. Hyldahl, J. C. M. van Winden, J. H. Waszink); Numénius et Ammonius Saccas (H. Ch. Puech, R. Dodds). Suivent quelques indications bibliographiques et des index. Un livre utile.

(Testo della casa editrice)

Link

https://www.persee.fr/doc/reg_0035-2039_1982_num_95_450_1316_t1_0212_0000_2