Robin Guthrie, Consolation (1969) Royal West of England Academy (RWA) copyright (©).
Robin Guthrie, Consolation (1969) Royal West of England Academy (RWA) copyright (©).
Whereas scholarship has tended to investigate this question by analyzing the development of Jewish apocalypticism, afterlife beliefs, and theodicy during the Hellenistic and early Roman periods, my analysis of consolatory rhetoric in Hellenistic Judaism offers a more comprehensive approach.
Read MoreAnnette Yoshiko Reed surveys the impact of E. P. Sanders upon the study of Second Temple Judaism.
Read MoreAdele Reinhartz introduces a memorial panel for the late E.P. Sanders that occurred at the 2023 SBL Annual Meeting.
Read MoreTitle and Incipit of a Syriac Joseph text included in British Library Additional 14,588, from the 9th or 10th century (Courtesy of author).
Title and Incipit of a Syriac Joseph text included in British Library Additional 14,588, from the 9th or 10th century (Courtesy of author).
These texts offered a window onto the literary creativity and inventiveness of the early Syriac tradition itself.
Read MoreBy arguing that the rabbis used Roman holidays as a canvas on which to sort out their hybrid identity, Gribetz presents a model of Romanness commonly ignored and passed over by scholars of classics.
Read MoreAJR continues its #conversations series with an exchange between Daniel Caner and Erin Galgay Walsh on Caner’s book, The Rich and the Poor: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium
Read MoreScenes from the life of Jesus depicted on a fragment of an early Christian sarcophagus (4th century CE) Narbo Via Museum [Wikimedia].
Scenes from the life of Jesus depicted on a fragment of an early Christian sarcophagus (4th century CE) Narbo Via Museum [Wikimedia].
In this article, I want to contextualize the term polupragmosunē as it is used in the works of other writers in the Roman imperial period (particularly Plutarch, Apuleius, Lucian, and Tertullian) and demonstrate how polupragmosunē is a key component of Diognetus’s anti-Jewish rhetoric and construction of uniquely Christian knowledge.
Read MoreJewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean (Routledge, 2022) is the first ready-made classroom resource dedicated to the study of ancient Jewish and Christian women in their wider Mediterranean context.
Read MoreMy research contributes participates in this ongoing conversation by exploring fresh methodological approaches to uncover the ways New Testament literature bears witness to ritual practices among early Christians.
Read MorePath to Mt. Sinai [Image courtesy of the author].
Path to Mt. Sinai [Image courtesy of the author].
My book attempts to address this particular historical context and argues for not only a general religious tolerance in the early centuries of Islam, but for an overlapping of sectarian boundaries throughout the period.
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