Los terapeutas constituyen una comunidad ascética judía, integrada por hombres y mujeres, y establecida junto al lago Mareotis a las afueras de Alejandría. Según afirma Filón en su tratado De vita contemplativa, su existencia estaba centrada en el estudio, la exégesis de textos sagrados y en la meditación y reflexión. También dedican una parte de su tiempo a la confección de textos, himnos y composiciones diversas dedicadas al Ser. Retirados del mundo en su humilde poblado llevando una cotidianidad sencilla y recoleta, componen un modelo de congregación consagrada a la vida contemplativa y al servicio de Dios.
{"title":"La vida cotidiana de los terapeutas del lago Mareotis","authors":"Diego Andrés Cardoso Bueno","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6437","url":null,"abstract":"Los terapeutas constituyen una comunidad ascética judía, integrada por hombres y mujeres, y establecida junto al lago Mareotis a las afueras de Alejandría. Según afirma Filón en su tratado De vita contemplativa, su existencia estaba centrada en el estudio, la exégesis de textos sagrados y en la meditación y reflexión. También dedican una parte de su tiempo a la confección de textos, himnos y composiciones diversas dedicadas al Ser. Retirados del mundo en su humilde poblado llevando una cotidianidad sencilla y recoleta, componen un modelo de congregación consagrada a la vida contemplativa y al servicio de Dios.","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73805668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chemical arts and religion in Antiquity. An introduction","authors":"N. Borrelli, Matteo Martelli","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.7262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.7262","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"141 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80695116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Price, Max D. (2020). Evolution of a Taboo. Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East. Oxford: Oxford University Press","authors":"Youri Volokhine","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.7043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.7043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"148 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76125193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The alchemical philosopher “Christianos” (late 6th [?] – 8th cent. CE) demonstrates that alchemical knowledge is a gift of God and describes the virtues that a philosopher-alchemist must possess to receive it. These and other Christian elements should not be considered as a Christian gloss on alchemical ideas. As a result of his exposure to the Neoplatonic mathematization of philosophical ideas, Christianos develops a precise method for defining and classifying alchemical productions on a mathematical basis. This mathematization intends to legitimize alchemy as a licit philosophical field, by presenting it as sharing similar traits with the sciences of the quadrivium. Christianos appears to have regarded this mathematical approach as a path illuminated by God through which a worthy philosopher-alchemist could partake in divine knowledge. The virtuous conduct and the mathematical method serve as two intertwined prerequisites in the pursuit of alchemical knowledge, facilitating at the same time the demarcation between true and false pursuers of knowledge.
{"title":"The Christianity of the Philosopher Christianos","authors":"Gerasimos Merianos","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6792","url":null,"abstract":"The alchemical philosopher “Christianos” (late 6th [?] – 8th cent. CE) demonstrates that alchemical knowledge is a gift of God and describes the virtues that a philosopher-alchemist must possess to receive it. These and other Christian elements should not be considered as a Christian gloss on alchemical ideas. As a result of his exposure to the Neoplatonic mathematization of philosophical ideas, Christianos develops a precise method for defining and classifying alchemical productions on a mathematical basis. This mathematization intends to legitimize alchemy as a licit philosophical field, by presenting it as sharing similar traits with the sciences of the quadrivium. Christianos appears to have regarded this mathematical approach as a path illuminated by God through which a worthy philosopher-alchemist could partake in divine knowledge. The virtuous conduct and the mathematical method serve as two intertwined prerequisites in the pursuit of alchemical knowledge, facilitating at the same time the demarcation between true and false pursuers of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90968707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gassman, Mattias P. (2020). Worshippers of the Gods. Debating Paganism in the Fourth-Century Roman West. Oxford: Oxford University Press","authors":"Élise Coignet","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88886803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Troyer, Kristin De, Schmitz, Barbara, Alfaro, Joshua & Häberlein, Maximilian (eds.) (2020). The Early Reception of the Torah. Berlin: De Gruyter","authors":"Cayetana H. Johnson","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6895","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78278801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva & Parry, Ken (eds.) (2020). Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy. Leiden & Boston: Brill","authors":"Marco Alviz Fernández","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76762635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The first alchemist for whom we have biographical data, Zosimos, lived in the Panopolis (current Akhmim) of the late 3rd – early 4th cent. CE, a region in which evidence of the practice of traditional Egyptian religion is attested well into Late Antiquity. The images that Zosimos employed in his presentation of alchemical procedures and apparatus offer us an insight into his cultural context. This paper will examine a series of passages from the works of Zosimos of Panopolis from an Egyptological perspective, contrasting them with textual and iconographic sources from the Egyptian temple milieu of Graeco-Roman Egypt. The results of this inquiry will be used to elaborate a more nuanced presentation of Zosimos’ identity.
{"title":"Zosimos Aigyptiakos. Identifying the Imagery of the “Visions” and Locating Zosimos of Panopolis in His Egyptian Context","authors":"M. Escolano-Poveda","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6793","url":null,"abstract":"The first alchemist for whom we have biographical data, Zosimos, lived in the Panopolis (current Akhmim) of the late 3rd – early 4th cent. CE, a region in which evidence of the practice of traditional Egyptian religion is attested well into Late Antiquity. The images that Zosimos employed in his presentation of alchemical procedures and apparatus offer us an insight into his cultural context. This paper will examine a series of passages from the works of Zosimos of Panopolis from an Egyptological perspective, contrasting them with textual and iconographic sources from the Egyptian temple milieu of Graeco-Roman Egypt. The results of this inquiry will be used to elaborate a more nuanced presentation of Zosimos’ identity.","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"299 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77811892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kling, David W. (2020). A History of Christian Conversion. Oxford: Oxford University Press","authors":"F. Young","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6924","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89550484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}