{"title":"Katsarou, Stella & Nagel, Alexander (eds.) (2020). Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece. New Approaches to Landscape and Ritual. New York: Routledge","authors":"Alexandra Creola","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6615","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73987052","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":"Belayche, Nicole & Massa, Francesco (eds.) (2021). Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Brill / Kiernan, Philip (2020). Roman Cult Images. The Lives and Worship of Idols from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. CUP","authors":"S. Estienne","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.7075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.7075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74225984","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":"Orlov, Andrei A. (ed.) (2020). Jewish Roots of Early Christian Mysticism. Studies in Honor of Alexander Golitzin. Leiden & Boston: Brill","authors":"Rodrigo Laham Cohen","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6925","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"251 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79408156","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}
Assyro-Babylonian procedural texts for making cult objects dated to the 1st millennium BCE provide an untapped resource for examining scribal conceptions of craft and purity in the ancient world. Ritual procedures for “opening of the mouth” of a cult statue (mīs pî), and for manufacturing a ritual drum called the lilissu, constitute the principal focus of this two-part study. This work uses three themata – time, space, and the material world – to provide the scaffolding for a comparative analysis that spans various centuries and localities, highlighting the ways in which “purity” was crafted in cuneiform scholarly cultures.
{"title":"Crafting Purity in Assyro-Babylonian Procedures","authors":"N. Borrelli, Eduardo A. Escobar","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6857","url":null,"abstract":"Assyro-Babylonian procedural texts for making cult objects dated to the 1st millennium BCE provide an untapped resource for examining scribal conceptions of craft and purity in the ancient world. Ritual procedures for “opening of the mouth” of a cult statue (mīs pî), and for manufacturing a ritual drum called the lilissu, constitute the principal focus of this two-part study. This work uses three themata – time, space, and the material world – to provide the scaffolding for a comparative analysis that spans various centuries and localities, highlighting the ways in which “purity” was crafted in cuneiform scholarly cultures.","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90576119","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":"Nicola Rebillard, Éric (2020). The Early Martyr Narratives. Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press","authors":"N. Lewis","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6897","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81731613","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":"Lipka, Hilary & Wells, Bruce (eds.) (2020). Sexuality and Law in the Torah. London: T&T Clark, Library of Biblical Studies","authors":"Pedro Giménez de Aragón Sierra","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6616","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84412965","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":"Snyder, H. Gregory (ed.) (2020). Christian Teachers in Second-Century Rome. Schools and Students in the Ancient City. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 159. Leiden & Boston: Brill","authors":"Manuel Alejandro González-Muñoz","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6782","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78936212","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":"Maier, Harry O. & Waldner, Katharina (eds.) (2021). Desiring Martyrs. Locating Martyrs in Space and Time. Berlin: De Gruyter","authors":"Marijana Vuković","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78445490","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}
Zosimus of Panopolis, the first identifiable author of Greek alchemy, wrote in late-3rd or 4th-century CE Egypt. For over a century, scholars have pictured him in turn as Christian or as pagan. A reconsideration of Zosimus’ On the Letter Omega and the treatise known as the Final Count or Final Abstinence (teleutaia apochē) and the First Lesson on Excellence demonstrates that he saw Jesus as a savior, that his citations of the Hermetica are not in contradiction with basic Christian notions and that believed that the gods of Egypt were evil divine beings. His Christology and anthropology shares characteristics with “Classic Gnostic” theology and other early Christian notions. Also characteristic of the soteriologies presented in some heresiological reports, Zosimus described Jesus as teaching humans to “cut off” their body. This last observation, which is dependent on recognizing Zosimus as a Christian, shed light on the symbolism of the First Lesson on Excellence.
{"title":"Was Zosimus of Panopolis Christian?","authors":"Olivier Dufault","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6795","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Zosimus of Panopolis, the first identifiable author of Greek alchemy, wrote in late-3rd or 4th-century CE Egypt. For over a century, scholars have pictured him in turn as Christian or as pagan. A reconsideration of Zosimus’ On the Letter Omega and the treatise known as the Final Count or Final Abstinence (teleutaia apochē) and the First Lesson on Excellence demonstrates that he saw Jesus as a savior, that his citations of the Hermetica are not in contradiction with basic Christian notions and that believed that the gods of Egypt were evil divine beings. His Christology and anthropology shares characteristics with “Classic Gnostic” theology and other early Christian notions. Also characteristic of the soteriologies presented in some heresiological reports, Zosimus described Jesus as teaching humans to “cut off” their body. This last observation, which is dependent on recognizing Zosimus as a Christian, shed light on the symbolism of the First Lesson on Excellence. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"13 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":"88920947","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":"Dijkstra, Jitse & Raschle, Christian R. (eds.) (2020). Religious Violence in the Ancient World. From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press","authors":"Lloyd H. Steffen","doi":"10.20318/arys.2022.6789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2022.6789","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40187,"journal":{"name":"ARYS-Antiguedad Religiones y Sociedades","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89126595","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}