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Travis Proctor deposited Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus in the group
Second Century Christianity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe city of Ephesus experienced a marked civic transformation in Late Antiquity. After having centered its settlements and economic fortunes on its proximity to a deep-water harbor for over a millennium, late antique Ephesus gradually shifted to an inland, fortified settlement on Ayasoluk Hill. While several factors undoubtedly informed this civic…[Read more]
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Travis Proctor deposited Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe city of Ephesus experienced a marked civic transformation in Late Antiquity. After having centered its settlements and economic fortunes on its proximity to a deep-water harbor for over a millennium, late antique Ephesus gradually shifted to an inland, fortified settlement on Ayasoluk Hill. While several factors undoubtedly informed this civic…[Read more]
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Travis Proctor deposited Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus in the group
Christian Apocryphal Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe city of Ephesus experienced a marked civic transformation in Late Antiquity. After having centered its settlements and economic fortunes on its proximity to a deep-water harbor for over a millennium, late antique Ephesus gradually shifted to an inland, fortified settlement on Ayasoluk Hill. While several factors undoubtedly informed this civic…[Read more]
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Travis Proctor deposited Books, Scribes, and Cultures of Reading in the Shepherd of Hermas on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
In this article, I analyse how the Shepherd of Hermas constructs an ancient Christian reading culture through concurrent portrayals of Christian reading, copying and book production. I argue that, by portraying its protagonist Hermas as an idealised reader, scribe and auditor, the Shepherd constructs an early Christian reading culture that…[Read more]
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Travis Proctor deposited Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
The city of Ephesus experienced a marked civic transformation in Late Antiquity. After having centered its settlements and economic fortunes on its proximity to a deep-water harbor for over a millennium, late antique Ephesus gradually shifted to an inland, fortified settlement on Ayasoluk Hill. While several factors undoubtedly informed this civic…[Read more]
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Travis Proctor's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
This essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
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Ellen Muehlberger's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Gender, Conversion, and the End of Empire in the Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe seventh-century apocalyptic dialogue text Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati (“Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized”) depicts forcibly baptized Jews coming to terms with their new situation in hidden meetings led by Jacob. At a key moment in the text, the last voices of Jewish resistance belong to the wife and mother-in-law of one of the dialogue…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Gender, Conversion, and the End of Empire in the Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe seventh-century apocalyptic dialogue text Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati (“Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized”) depicts forcibly baptized Jews coming to terms with their new situation in hidden meetings led by Jacob. At a key moment in the text, the last voices of Jewish resistance belong to the wife and mother-in-law of one of the dialogue…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Gender, Conversion, and the End of Empire in the Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
The seventh-century apocalyptic dialogue text Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati (“Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized”) depicts forcibly baptized Jews coming to terms with their new situation in hidden meetings led by Jacob. At a key moment in the text, the last voices of Jewish resistance belong to the wife and mother-in-law of one of the dialogue…[Read more]
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Ascetic Leader in Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoIn this essay, I consider the ideal ascetic leader depicted in the Life of Moses attributed to Gregory of Nyssa: that leader is not a bishop, but a leader who has more experience with the day-to-day struggles of monks, particularly the kind of struggles described by Evagrius and writers influenced by him.
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Ascetic Leader in Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoIn this essay, I consider the ideal ascetic leader depicted in the Life of Moses attributed to Gregory of Nyssa: that leader is not a bishop, but a leader who has more experience with the day-to-day struggles of monks, particularly the kind of struggles described by Evagrius and writers influenced by him.
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Ascetic Leader in Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months ago
In this essay, I consider the ideal ascetic leader depicted in the Life of Moses attributed to Gregory of Nyssa: that leader is not a bishop, but a leader who has more experience with the day-to-day struggles of monks, particularly the kind of struggles described by Evagrius and writers influenced by him.
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Travis Proctor's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Early Christianity, Theory, and Me in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPaper delivered at the University of Pennsylvania to the graduate students in religious studies on May 6, 2016
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