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Andrew Jacobs deposited “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAn exploration of the paradoxical celebrity of ascetic renunciants in early Christianity, using the example of Simeon Stylites, the pillar saint.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAn exploration of the paradoxical celebrity of ascetic renunciants in early Christianity, using the example of Simeon Stylites, the pillar saint.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
An exploration of the paradoxical celebrity of ascetic renunciants in early Christianity, using the example of Simeon Stylites, the pillar saint.
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity 2 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoWriting Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity 2 in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoWriting Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity 2 in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoWriting Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity
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Ellen Muehlberger's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity 2 on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity
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James Walters deposited Sleep of the Soul and Resurrection of the Body: Aphrahat’s Anthropology in Context in the group
Syriac Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe fourth-century Syriac corpus known as the Demonstrations, attributed to Aphrahat, the Persian Sage, provides a unique window into the early development of Christianity among Syriac-speaking communities. Occasionally these writings attest to beliefs and practices that were not common among other contemporaneous Christian communities, such as…[Read more]
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James Walters deposited Sleep of the Soul and Resurrection of the Body: Aphrahat’s Anthropology in Context in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe fourth-century Syriac corpus known as the Demonstrations, attributed to Aphrahat, the Persian Sage, provides a unique window into the early development of Christianity among Syriac-speaking communities. Occasionally these writings attest to beliefs and practices that were not common among other contemporaneous Christian communities, such as…[Read more]
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James Walters deposited Sleep of the Soul and Resurrection of the Body: Aphrahat’s Anthropology in Context on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
The fourth-century Syriac corpus known as the Demonstrations, attributed to Aphrahat, the Persian Sage, provides a unique window into the early development of Christianity among Syriac-speaking communities. Occasionally these writings attest to beliefs and practices that were not common among other contemporaneous Christian communities, such as…[Read more]
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited Angel in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoA reflection on what notions of angels suggest about how late ancient people knew the world and its inhabitants.
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited Angel in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoA reflection on what notions of angels suggest about how late ancient people knew the world and its inhabitants.
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Representation of Theatricality in Philo’s Embassy to Gaius in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoIn this paper I argue that Philo’s Embassy to Gaius makes use of the literary paradigm
of theatricality, a strategy of representation marked by the portrayal of multiple
and competing discourses amongst those in unequal relations of power, as
well as an emphasis on the arts of acting and discernment. Th e Embassy marks an
appearance of the t…[Read more] -
Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Representation of Theatricality in Philo’s Embassy to Gaius in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoIn this paper I argue that Philo’s Embassy to Gaius makes use of the literary paradigm
of theatricality, a strategy of representation marked by the portrayal of multiple
and competing discourses amongst those in unequal relations of power, as
well as an emphasis on the arts of acting and discernment. Th e Embassy marks an
appearance of the t…[Read more] -
A reflection on what notions of angels suggest about how late ancient people knew the world and its inhabitants.
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Representation of Theatricality in Philo’s Embassy to Gaius on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
In this paper I argue that Philo’s Embassy to Gaius makes use of the literary paradigm
of theatricality, a strategy of representation marked by the portrayal of multiple
and competing discourses amongst those in unequal relations of power, as
well as an emphasis on the arts of acting and discernment. Th e Embassy marks an
appearance of the t…[Read more] -
Ellen Muehlberger's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
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