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Peyman Amiri edited the doc Meetings and tasks in the group
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G. Geltner created the doc Meetings and tasks in the group
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Rob Collins deposited Decline, collapse, or transformation? The case for the northern frontier of Britannia in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis paper assesses the evidence for the collapse or otherwise of the northern frontier of Britannia, including Hadrian’s Wall, relative to received paradigms of ‘the end’ of Roman Britain.
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Rob Collins deposited Economic reduction or military reorganisation? Demolition and conversion of granaries in the northern frontier of Britannia in the later 4th century in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis paper examines structural changes to stone-built granaries at fort sites along Hadrian’s Wall, with particular attention given to the latest phases of alterations that indicate a demolition or changed use of granary buildings.
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Nathan Gibson deposited Biblia Arabica: An Update on the State of Research in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThe aim of this contribution is to review some of the major areas of current research on the Arabic Bible, along with the factors and trends contributing to them. Also we present some of the tools that are currently under development in the Biblia Arabica team, Munich.
We provide here a very condensed survey of the transmission of traditions,…[Read more]
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Nikos Tsivikis deposited Τελευταίοι εθνικοί στη Μεσσήνη του 4ου αι. μ.Χ. – Last Hellenes of Messene in the 4th c. AD in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoDuring the older excavation of Messene by Anastasios Orlandos a quite original smaller than life-size marble statue of a Roman emperor wearing a short tunic and holding in his left hand the orb had been located and dated to the 4th c. AD. Further exploration of the area by Petros Themelis in the 1990s unearthed a magnificent Roman urban domus of…[Read more]
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G. Geltner deposited Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Public Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy in the group
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis is a preprint version of my forthcoming book, to be published by Pennsylvania University Press
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review – Reverent Irreverence in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoBoth in terms of its content and its methodology, Pious Irreverence is a pioneering work. Weiss artfully employs all the tools of textual analysis developed over the last four decades of rabbinic scholarship and brings them to bear on TY, a largely neglected corpus. Tanhuma-Yelammedenu has never been studied as a work of theology, nor from a…[Read more]
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Adam Rasmussen deposited “A Vessel Divinely Molded”: Basil of Caesarea on the Human Body in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis paper has two parts. First, I examine Basil of Caesarea’s theological anthropology and show how he understands the human being as a body-soul unity. The body is the good instrument of the soul. It is marvelous because it has been molded by God’s own hands. In the second part, I examine what I call Basil’s theological physiology, which flows…[Read more]
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Adam Rasmussen deposited Basil of Caesarea’s Uses of Origen in His Polemic against Astrology in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoBasil of Caesarea, in his polemic against astrology (Homiliae in hexaemeron 6,5−7), makes direct, creative uses of Origen’s anti-astrological treatise (Philocalia 23). My argument is based on an identical context, namely the interpretation of Gen 1:14b, and five close similarities in content, some verbatim, between Basil’s sermon and Orige…[Read more]
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