When I first opened up these two new books by Stanley Stowers, I happened to be teaching two undergraduate courses at Boston University: an introduction to early Christianity and a course for religion...

The "Practical Magic" author's work at the Divinity School led her back to the art she loved.

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions

Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible - Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination

This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...

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Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination

How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine

By reconstructing an ancient polemical text that has previously been known only in a fragmentary manner, and by situating it both within its Late Antique context and in the context of previous scholar...

The provenance of the opening Aramaic portion of the Passover Haggadah has confounded practitioners and scholars for centuries. Little evidence has come to light to explain the origins of this passage...

We may, in fact, be approaching a moment when historical literacy—much like philology—ought to be regarded as a basic expectation of rigorous scholarship on the Talmud. If so, the question before us i...

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity

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A fresh perspective revealing how ethnographic thinking shaped the sociocultural landscape of the ancient Mediterranean.   With this book, Philip A. Harland presents a large-scale rereading of social ...