The Gospel of Thomas and Plato

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Gospel of Thomas and Plato

A Study of the Impact of Platonism on the “Fifth Gospel”

Ivan Miroshnikov, Leiden: Brill, 2018

Description

In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov contributes to the study of the earliest Christian engagements with philosophy by offering the first systematic discussion of the impact of Platonism on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the most intriguing and cryptic works among the Nag Hammadi writings. Miroshnikov demonstrates that a Platonist lens is indispensable to the understanding of a number of the Thomasine sayings that have, for decades, remained elusive as exegetical cruces. The Gospel of Thomas is thus an important witness to the early stages of the process that eventually led to the Platonist formulation of certain Christian dogmata.

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Table of contents

Acknowledgements

A Note to the Reader

Setting the Scene

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on the World

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on the Body and the Soul

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on Oneness

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on Stability

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on Immutability and Indivisibility

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on Freedom from Anger

Thomasine Metaphysics of the Image and Its Platonist Background

Concluding Remarks

The Greek Vorlage of Gos. Thom. 12:2

The Secondary Nature of Gos. Thom. 5:3

A Note on Gos. Thom. 77:1

Bibliography

Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/38096

Du Nouveau Testament au manichéisme : essais en l’honneur d’Anne Pasquier

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Laval théologique et philosophique

Du Nouveau Testament au Manichéisme

Essais en l’honneur d’Anne Pasquier

Érudit: Laval

Description

Notre dernière publication présente un dossier qui rend hommage à Madame Anne Pasquier, professeure émérite à la Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses (de l’Université Laval, à Québec) : « Les contributions que rassemble ce dossier publié en son honneur relèvent de domaines dans lesquels Anne Pasquier s’est illustrée : la rhétorique biblique, Augustin, le gnosticisme et le manichéisme. Elles rendent compte également de la diversité et de la complémentarité des approches qu’elle a pratiquées »

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Lien

https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ltp/2018-v74-n2-ltp04447/

The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art 

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art

Robin M. Jensen & Mark D. Ellison, London: Routledge, 2018

Description

The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The first part of the book opens with a general survey of the subject and then presents fifteen essays that discuss specific media of visual art — catacomb paintings, sculpture, mosaics, gold glass, gems, reliquaries, ceramics, icons, ivories, textiles, silver, and illuminated manuscripts. Each is written by a noted expert in the field. The second part of the book takes up themes relevant to the study of early Christian art. These seven chapters consider the ritual practices in decorated spaces, the emergence of images of Christ’s Passion and miracles, the functions of Christian secular portraits, the exemplary mosaics of Ravenna, the early modern history of Christian art and archaeology studies, and further reflection on this field called “early Christian art.” Each of the volume’s chapters includes photographs of many of the objects discussed, plus bibliographic notes and recommendations for further reading. The result is an invaluable introduction to and appraisal of the art that developed out of the spread of Christianity through the late antique world. Undergraduate and graduate students of late classical, early Christian, and Byzantine culture, religion, or art will find it an accessible and insightful orientation to the field. Additionally, professional academics, archivists, and curators working in these areas will also find it valuable as a resource for their own research, as well as a textbook or reference work for their students.

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Table of contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Foreword

  1. Introduction: The Emergence and Character of Early Christian Art – Robin M. Jensen

Part I: Media

  1. Catacomb Painting and the Rise of Christian Iconography in Funerary Art – Norbert Zimmermann
  2. Christian Sarcophagi from Rome – Jutta Dresken-Weiland
  3. Early Christian Sarcophagi outside of Rome – Guntram Koch
  4. Freestanding Sculpture – Heidi J. Hornik
  5. Christian Wall Mosaics and the Creation of Sacred Space – Sean V. Leatherbury
  6. Christian Floor Mosaics: Modes of Study and Potential Meanings – Rina Talgam
  7. Gold Glass in Late Antiquity – Susan Walker
  8. Engraved Gems and Amulets – Jeffrey Spier
  9. Reliquaries and the Cult of Relics in Late Antiquity – Erik Thunø
  10. Ceramics in the Early Christian World – John J. Herrmann, Jr. and Annewies van den Hoek
  11. Panel Paintings and Early Christian Icons – Katherine Marsengill
  12. Christian Ivories: Containment, Manipulation, and the Creation of Meaning – Niamh Bhalla
  13. Textiles: The Emergence of a Christian Identity in Cloth – Jennifer L. Ball
  14. Early Christian Silver: Sacred and Domestic – Ruth Leader-Newby
  15. Early Christian Illuminated Manuscripts – Dorothy Verkerk

Part II: Themes

  1. Early Christian Art and Ritual – Michael Peppard
  2. Picturing the Passion – Felicity Harley-McGowan
  3. Miracles and Art – Lee M. Jefferson
  4. « Secular » Portraits, Identity, and the Christianization of the Roman Household – Mark D. Ellison
  5. The Mosaics of Ravenna – Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis
  6. Early Christian Art and Archaeology in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Rome – Janet Huskinson
  7. « Early » « Christian » « Art » – Robert Couzin

Index

Link

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Early-Christian-Art/Jensen-Ellison/p/book/9780367734398

Les identités en formation

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Les identités en formation

Rabbis, hérésies, premiers chrétiens

Dan Jaffé, Paris: Cerf, 2018

Description

Que dit le Talmud sur Jésus et son « mouvement » ? Le texte rabbinique fait-il mention des évangiles ? Qui étaient les judéo-chrétiens ? Quelle était leur foi ? Quels étaient leurs rapports avec le judaïsme ? Dans cette étude magistrale, Dan Jaffé traite de la martyrologie juive et montre l’évolution des conceptions messianiques dans les sources talmudiques. Il étudie aussi le regard du monde juif sur Jésus et le christianisme, et fait le point sur la question fort débattue de la séparation entre juifs et chrétiens aux premiers siècles de notre ère. Enfin, il ouvre de nouvelles perspectives sur un tout autre dossier : judaïsme et islam. Il y est question du regard de Maïmonide sur le prophète de l’islam et de l’influence exercée par les écoles soufies sur certains rabbins médiévaux. Un ouvrage de référence pour comprendre le passé et apporter de nouveaux éclairages sur des questions contemporaines.

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Table de matières

Le judéo-christianisme dans la littérature talmudique

Présence judéo-chrétienne dans le corpus talmudique

La question de la séparation entre juifs et chrétiens du point de vue rabbinique

Corpus judéo-chrétiens et littérature talmudique

L’exemple de l’évangile selon Matthieu : retour sur une controverse cryptée I

Corpus judéo-chrétiens et littérature talmudique ? Retour sur une controverse cryptée II

Évangiles, thérapie et littérature judéo-chrétiennes dans le Talmud

Histoire d’une polémique

Talmud, christianisme et judéo-christianisme. Histoire d’une polémique

Polémiques entre juifs et chrétiens autour des observances du judaïsme

L’exemple du Dialogue de Justin de Néapolis

Circoncision, mort et conversion dans les traditions juives et chrétiennes du IIe siècle

Analogies littéraires et motifs communs

L’exclusion des judéo-chrétiens de la Synagogue

Nouvelles perspectives sur la Birkat ha-minim

Incantations, magie et polémique dans le monde juif des premiers- siècles

Judaïsme rabbinique et judéo-christianisme

Judaïsme ancien

Texte et contexte

Le Talmud préconise-t-il la mort en martyr ?

Canonisation, martyrologie et processus de rabbinisation

Messianisme et rédemption dans le judaïsme ancien

Rationalisme, apocalyptique et utopie

Études historiographiques

Jésus peut-il être reconnu dans un des mouvements juifs de l’Antiquité ?

Contribution à l’étude du « Jésus historique »

Historiographie juive et science des religions

Israël Lévi et l’étude des relations entre judaïsme rabbinique et christianisme primitif

Quand les juifs se racontent Jésus

Joseph Klausner ou le premier ouvrage en langue hébraïque sur Jésus de Nazareth

Quand la science des religions oeuvre au discours idéologique

L’histoire au service de la polémique

La séparation entre juifs et chrétiens (The Parting of the Ways)

Réflexions historiques et historiographiques

Judaïsme médiéval et islam

Selon quelles modalités la pensée juive considère-t-elle Mahomet prophète de l’Islam ?

Étude, sur les textes maïmonidiens

Monde soufi et monde rabbinique

Motifs communs et traditions empruntées

Lien

https://www.editionsducerf.fr/librairie/livre/18480/les-identites-en-formation

Annaeus Cornutus: Greek Theology, Fragments, and Testimonia

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Annaeus Cornutus

Greek Theology, Fragments, and Testimonia

George Boys-Stones, Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018

Description

Cornutus is not well known among students of ancient philosophy. Yet this first-century Stoic philosopher is a very interesting figure and deserves more attention than he has hitherto received. Boys-Stones’ book does much to counteract this disregard. He prints and translates into English Cornutus’ sole extant work, Greek Theology (Ἐπιδρομὴ τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἑλληνικὴν θεολογίαν παραδεδομένων), and collects and translates all fragments and testimonies of Cornutus, adding succinct footnotes. The forty-page introduction enlightens us about Cornutus’ philosophical profile and explains what makes him distinctive. The book is rounded out by an index of sources, concordances, bibliography, and a general index. Why, then, does Cornutus deserve our attention? One reason is his focus on poetry and language from a philosophical point of view. Stoics had a reputation in antiquity for their interest in studying poetry and language from a (distinctive) philosophical standpoint. Indeed they were often criticized for trying to harmonize the stories of early poets, such as Homer and Hesiod, with Stoic doctrine (Cicero, De nat. deor. I.41, Philodemus, De pietate col. vi, Plutarch, De aud. poet. 31d). Cornutus exemplifies an intriguing variation of this Stoic tendency. Like other Stoics, Cornutus had a deep interest in poetry, as is suggested by his composition of commentaries on Virgil (pp. 182–94), and it is no accident that his students in Rome included the poets Lucan and Persius (see Life of Persius and Persius, Satura 5, Boys-Stones pp. 198–215). Cornutus was in fact renowned as a critic of poetry in late antiquity (Augustine, De Utilitate Credendi 17; F37 Boys-Stones). The evidence suggests that Cornutus’ focus on poetry was part of his broader interest in language. This becomes evident in his treatise on orthography, of which we only have the Latin excerpts of Cassiodorus (collected and translated by Boys-Stones pp. 142-155). Cornutus’ interest in language also motivated his engagement with Aristotle’s Categories—yet another reason for which Cornutus deserves our attention. For, while contemporary Platonists such as Lucius and Nicostratus conceived the Categories as an ontological work, that is, as a work that distinguishes kinds of beings, and contemporary Peripatetics understood it as a work of semantics, that is, a work concerned with words that have meaning, Cornutus instead considered the Categories to be a work of grammar dealing with words as such (περὶ τῶν λέξεων καθὸ λέξεις, Porphyry In Cat. 59.10 Busse), and accused Aristotle of leaving out certain classes of words. This interpretation of the Categories is peculiar to Stoicism. Cornutus was preceded by Athenodorus in criticizing the Categories as a deficient treatment of verbal expressions, in the same way that contemporary Platonists considered it as a deficient work of ontology, but Cornutus went further than Athenodorus in also challenging the coherence of Aristotle’s work. Cornutus’ interpretation has recently been well presented by Griffin, yet now Boys-Stones has collected and translated the relevant evidence (pp. 167–76).

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Table of contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Cornutus the Philosopher

  1. Preface
  2. The life of Cornutus
  3. Stoicism in the first century AD

3.1. Stoicism as an international movement

3.2. Stoicism as a ‘textual community’

3.3. Stoicism: the intellectual programme

  1. Cornutus’ Philosophical Views

4.1. ‘Dialectic’4.1.1. Logic: Cornutus on Aristotle’s Categories

4.1.2. Rhetoric: the social context for wisdom traditions

4.2 Physics

4.3 Ethics

  1. Conclusion

Titles of works by Cornutus

Notes on Texts and Referencing

The Greek Theology [Survey of the Greek Theological Tradition]

Preface

  1. Structure

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Structural markers in the Greek Theology

1.3. The Greek Theology  and Plato’s Timaeus

  1. Cornutus and the tradition of allegorical reading

Text and translation

On Pronunciation or Orthography (surviving extracts)

Preface

Text and translation

Fragments and Testimonia

Life

Greek theology

Aristotle’s Categories

Physics and metaphysics

Rhetoric

Fame as a critic

Virgil

Lucan

Miscellaneous

Cornutus and Persius

The ancient Life of Persius

Persius, Satire 5

Index of Sources

Concordance

References

Link

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2021/2021.04.37/

Early Christian Determinism: A Study of The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Early Christian Determinism

A Study of The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate

Paul Linjamaa, Leiden: Brill, 2018

Description

The aim of this study is to explore the ethics of the Nag Hammadi text, The Tripartite Tractate. This text, the fifth tractate in Nag Hammadi Codex I, has received comparatively little attention, although it is the most detailed Valentinian treaty still extant. By investigating the ethics of The Tripartite Tractate, this study not only illuminates a previously unstudied aspect of this very interesting early Christian text, but also seeks to explore the workings of early Christian determinism. This has previously been presented as “Gnostic”, and then not taken seriously, or been disregarded as an invention of intra-Christian polemics. The present study challenges this conception and presents insights into how early Christian determinism worked, sustaining viable and functioning ethical systems. The ethics of The Tripartite Tractate are approached by connecting practical, lived ethics and the theoretical foundations for ancient ethical discussion. This entails examining the text’s ontology and epistemology, as well as ancient cognitive and behavioral theory. In short, this study aims to answer the question, “how should people behave?”, by first exploring questions regarding how human behavior and actions were thought to have worked in the first place. Part I of the study investigates The Tripartite Tractate’s views on epistemology, ontology and theory of passions, as well as the nature of the human will and cognitive apparatus. It is noted that The Tripartite Tractate outlines a Christian deterministic system that denies free will in humans. The Tripartite Tractate presents an anthropology with three different classes of humans, each person being defined by the composition of their physical and mental make up, a mixture of the three basic substance viable in the cosmic system: matter, psychê and pneuma. This part of the study explores the The Tripartite Tractate’s dependence on, and relation to, Greco-Roman physics and theories of passions and cognition, and how they relate to and legitimize social structures. As a conclusion to Part I, the context of the text’s determinism is discussed and it is suggested that the views that Origen of Alexandria took action against in his work Peri Archon are reflected in The Tripartite Tractate. Part II of the study is devoted to the practical and social implications of the text’s determinism and explores how it would have worked to create and sustain group identity. It is argued that the tripartite anthropology promotes a pedagogical schema that points out different roles and responsibilities humans have in relation to each other. The people termed “pneumatics” are described as ethical experts and are called upon to play the role of teachers in the ideal community, while the people termed “psychics” are described as the helpers and students of the “pneumatics”. The “material” people are outsiders destined to be lost. It is argued that the text utilizes ancient pedagogic language in order to construct the ideal social structure, and the usage of the terms “church” and “school” in the text is analyzed. It is suggested that the most likely social structure referenced by TriTrac would have comprised a group consisting of two parts: intellectually advanced pneumatics in an inner study circle within a second, larger part consisting of psychic everyday Christians, two groups that at times came together to study and celebrate communion and baptism. The everyday Christians are described as driven by honor, and encouraged to prosper in the world for the benefit of the larger community. This is discussed in light of the concept of “honor” and its importance in Roman society. Part II of the study demonstrates the effectiveness of a deterministic anthropology for creating and sustaining a group structure where a viable ethical system was implemented. Part III of the study recapitulates the main arguments, and also explores the context of the text in light of the findings. It is argued that early third-century Alexandria is the most likely original context of the text. The implications of the study are discussed in light of the broader topic of early Christianity. Among other things, it is suggested that the doctrine of free will, which became a cornerstone in later Christianity, developed in the wake of debates with Christians we find represented in The Tripartite Tractate, whose approaches represent a serious alternative to the doctrine of free will.

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Table of contents

Acknowledgments 
List of Abbreviations 
Introduction 
1 The Structure of the Present Study
2 Who Were the Valentinians?
3 The Myth in TriTrac and the Ethics in Storytelling
4 Previous Research on TriTrac and the Historical Setting of the Text
5 Early Christian Ethics and the Bad Reputation of Determinism
6 Notes on Translation and Transcription

Part 1: Theoretical Framework for Ethics

1 The Ontological and Epistemological Foundations for Ethics
1 Knowledge in TriTrac and Ancient Epistemology
2 Phantasms, Likenesses, and Images: the Ontology of TriTrac and the Question of Logos
3 Remembering (and) the Nature of Virtue
4 The Individual and the Collective
5 Mixing and Blending, Truth and Falsehood
6 Conclusion: Ontology, Epistemology and Ethics

2 Emotions, Demons, and Moral Ability
1 Emotions and Cognitive Theory in Ancient Thought
2 Emotions and the Creation Narrative
3 The Logos’ First Movement and Ancient Cognitive Theory
4 Good Emotions
5 Negative Passions as “Mixed” Heavenly Powers and their Influence on Humans
6 Apatheia, Therapeia, and Eleutheria
7 Femaleness and the Sickness of Emotions
8 Conclusion

3 Free Will and the Configuration of the Human Mind
1 Will and Ethics in Ancient Thought
2 Christian Free Will, the Configuration of God, and the Creation of the Cosmos
3 Free Will and Moral Accountability in TriTrac
4 TriTrac’s Anthropology in Context: Origen’s Christian Opponents

Part 2: Ethics in Practice

4 Natural Human Categories and Moral Progress
1 The Three Classes of Humans in TriTrac
2 The Pedagogical Purpose of the Logos’ Organization and the Composition of Humans
3 Three Categories of Humans According to TriTrac’s Epistemology and Theory of Passions
4 Restricted Choice in Practice
5 Fixed, Fluid, or in Flux? The Advantages of a Fixed Anthropology
6 Conclusions

5 School or Church? Teaching, Learning, and the Community Structure
1 On the Community Structure Behind TriTrac in Light of the Term “Church”
2 The Cosmos as a “School” in TriTrac and its Early Christian Context
3 The “School of Conduct” in the Pleroma and the Gaining of Form
4 The Cosmic School: an Imperfect Reflection of the Heavens
5 Silent and Oral Instruction: Formation, Baptism and Education
6 The Duty of the Pneumatic Moral Expert and the Formation of Psychic Christians
7 The Category of the ‘School of Valentinus’ in Early Christian Scholarship
8 Conclusions: the Dual Structure of the Community Behind TriTrac

6 Honor and Attitudes Toward Social and Political Involvement
1 TriTrac and Early Christian Attitudes Toward Involvement in Society
2 Cosmogony as Political Commentary
3 The Pursuit of Honor
4 Psychic Humans and their Political Involvement
5 Conclusion: the Character of Psychic Christians and Attitudes Toward Social and Ecclesiastical Involvement

Part 3: Conclusions and Implications

7 Summary: the Nature of Early Christian Determinism
1 TriTrac’s Alexandrian Context

Appendix: Implications and Suggestions for Further Studies
Bibliography
Ancient Authors and Texts
Secondary Literature
Index

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/55641

Processo a Socrate

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Processo a Socrate

Mauro Bonazzi, Bari: Laterza, 2018

Descrizione

399 a.C.: la città di Atene condanna a morte uno dei suoi figli più autorevoli, Socrate. Cosa è successo davvero nei mesi in cui si è svolta la vicenda giudiziaria? Si ripete spesso che si trattò di un processo politico mascherato, per colpire le simpatie oligarchiche dell’anziano filosofo. Ma forse il vero oggetto del contendere in questa vicenda fu proprio il pensiero di Socrate. Fino a che punto una comunità – ieri come oggi – può tollerare che i principi e i valori su cui si fonda siano messi radicalmente in discussione? E davvero le ragioni della filosofia e quelle della città non sono compatibili? Una lettura originale di uno dei più celebri processi della storia.

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Indice

  1. In tribunale

Un processo celebre, e un altro processo celebre – La «questione socratica» – Il sistema dei tribunali

Intermezzo 1: Atene, una democrazia turbolenta

  1. L’oligarca

L’elefante – Anni difficili – Gli oligarchi intelligenti – Altri processi – Tutti pazzi per Sparta – Un processo senza (troppa) politica?

Intermezzo 2: Che cosa ha detto veramente Socrate: Platone e Senofonte a confronto

  1. L’empio

Introduzione – L’accusa di empietà – Filosofi e teologi – Il teologo empio

  1. Il cattivo maestro

Introduzione – Il discorso sul metodo – Cani, lupi, torpedini: un bestiario filosofico – Socrate e Alcibiade – Il maestro ignorante

Intermezzo 3: Topografia socratica

  1. La difesa e la morte di un uomo giusto

Voleva morire: su quello che Socrate avrebbe detto al processo – Il carcere – La cicuta – Il gallo

Ringraziamenti

Bibliografia

Link

https://www.laterza.it/scheda-libro/?isbn=9788858128138

Plotinus on Consciousness

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Plotinus on Consciousness

D.M. Hutchinson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Description

Plotinus is the first Greek philosopher to hold a systematic theory of consciousness. The key feature of his theory is that it involves multiple layers of experience: different layers of consciousness occur in different levels of self. This layering of higher modes of consciousness on lower ones provides human beings with a rich experiential world, and enables human beings to draw on their own experience to investigate their true self and the nature of reality. This involves a robust notion of subjectivity. However, it is a notion of subjectivity that is unique to Plotinus, and remarkably different from the Post-Cartesian tradition. Behind the plurality of terms Plotinus uses to express consciousness, and behind the plurality of entities to which Plotinus attributes consciousness (such as the divine souls and the hypostases), lies a theory of human consciousness. It is a Platonist theory shaped by engagement with rival schools of ancient thought. Argues that the concept of consciousness existed in the ancient world and can be disentangled from Descartes and the Post-Cartesian tradition; Proposes a new interpretation of Plotinus’ philosophy of mind; Examines Plotinus’ theory of consciousness in dialogue with Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics

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Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Text

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Self

Chapter 2 – Conciousness Terms

Chapter 3 – First Layer :  the soul-trace

Chapter 4 – Second Layer :  the lower soul

Chapter 5 – Third Layer : the higher soul

Chapter 6 – Self-Determination

Chapter 7 – Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

General Index

Index Locorum

Link

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-philosophy/plotinus-consciousness?format=HB&isbn=9781108424769#hwQ3e40BZqIeQOXw.97

Christianizing Egypt. Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Christianizing Egypt

Syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity

David Frankfurter, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017

Description

How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity. As David Frankfurter shows, members of these different social and creative worlds came to create different forms of Christianity according to their specific interests, their traditional idioms, and their sense of what the religion could offer. Reintroducing the term “syncretism” for the inevitable and continuous process by which a religion is acculturated, the book addresses the various formations of Egyptian Christianity that developed in the domestic sphere, the worlds of holy men and saints’ shrines, the work of craftsmen and artisans, the culture of monastic scribes, and the reimagination of the landscape itself, through processions, architecture, and the potent remains of the past. Drawing on sermons and magical texts, saints’ lives and figurines, letters and amulets, and comparisons with Christianization elsewhere in the Roman empire and beyond, Christianizing Egypt reconceives religious change—from the “conversion” of hearts and minds to the selective incorporation and application of strategies for protection, authority, and efficacy, and for imagining the environment.

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Table of contents

List of Illustrations

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

CHAPTER 1 – Remodeling the Christianization of Egypt

CHAPTER 2 – Domestic Devotion and Religious Change TRADITIONS OF THE DOMESTIC SPHERE

CHAPTER 3 – Controller of Demons, Dispenser of Blessings TRADITIONS OF THE HOLY MAN AS CRAFTSMAN OF LOCAL CHRISTIANITY

CHAPTER 4 – A Site of Blessings, Dreams, and Wonders TRADITIONS OF THE SAINT’S SHRINE

CHAPTER 5 – The Magic of Craft TRADITIONS OF THE WORKSHOP AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EFFICACY

CHAPTER 6 – Scribality and Syncretism TRADITIONS OF WRITING AND THE BOOK

CHAPTER 7 – Whispering Spirits, Holy Processions TRADITIONS OF THE EGYPTIAN LANDSCAPE

Afterword

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

INDEX

Link

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691176970/christianizing-egypt

Polymnia, an international electronic journal on mythography

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Polymnia

Lille: Université de Lille

Description

The international network Polymnia, created in 1999 by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Françoise Graziani to promote the study of the mythographical tradition in Europe from Antiquity to the 17th Century has developed two types of activities: a programme of conferences in the various partner institutions and the publications of bilingual texts with translations and notes in the series Mythographes (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion).
The journal Polymnia continues the research programme of the network. It offers a space for interdisciplinary and diachronic reflection and debate about mythographical texts in Antiquity, in the Middles Ages, and in the Renaissance.

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Link

https://polymnia-revue.univ-lille.fr/index.php/en/this-journal-home/