Zoe Tsiami
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Andrew Jacobs deposited The Kindest Cut: Christ’s Circumcision and the Signs of Early Christian Identity in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 years agoOriginally presented at McMaster University in May 2005.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Matters (Un-)Becoming: Conversions in Epiphanius of Salamis in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 years agoIn this essay, I reconsider early Christian conversion through the writings of Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 404 C.E.). Far from the notion of conversion as an interior movement of soul (familiar from Augustine, A.D. Nock, and William James), Epiphanius shows us a variety of conversions—from lay to clergy, from orthodox to heretic, and from Jew to C…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Epiphanius of Salamis and the Antiquarian’s Bible in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 years agoCompared to more philosophical biblical interpreters such as Origen, Epiphanius of Salamis often appears to modern scholars as plodding, literalist, reactionary, meandering, and unsophisticated. In this article I argue that Epiphanius’s eclectic and seemingly disorganized treatment of the Bible actually draws on a common, imperial style of a…[Read more]
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Sarah Bond deposited “Currency and Control: Mint Workers in the Later Roman Empire” in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 years agoArticle exploring the status of mint workers from the Republic to the period of Late Antiquity.
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited Simeon and Other Women in Theodoret’s Religious History: Gender in the Representation of Late Ancient Christian Asceticism in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThis article explores the use of gender in the Religious History, demonstrating the multiple ways that Theodoret of Cyrrhus marked ostensibly male characters with traits associated in ancient medical literature with female bodies. Beyond simply depicting ascetics as extraordinary human beings, these complexly gendered portraits more importantly…[Read more]
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Ellen Muehlberger created the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 years ago