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‘Selective historians’: The construction of cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist texts
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 32-51, March 2024.Abstract Far from being a natural, prelapsarian state, cisness is a hegemonic ideal of gender performance demanded of all people. This article explores the construction of cisness in the field of Byzantine studies, and the historiographical tropes through which it is maintained, naturalised and made invisible.
Ilya Maude
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2017 Unfaithful Bride The Matrimonial Practice of the Hellenistic Judaism in the Light of Sources from the Jewish Politeuma in Herakleopolis (144/3 – 133/2 BC) Summary The author is dealing with a Greek papyrus from Herakleopolis in Egypt where a Jewish ...
Józef MÉLÈZE MODRZEJEWSKI
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Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic Tradition [PDF]
, 2017 It is well known that a complete and satisfying “history of Coptic literature” is still a desideratum. Among the other causes contributing to the difficulty of such an enterprise are the fragmentary status of the codices which preserve the texts and the ...
Buzi, Paola
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Layers of powers: societies and institutions in Europe [PDF]
, 2010 Historians and social scientists have offered many and varied definitions of the term “community”. This chapter focuses on specific examples of face-to-face or local communities in order to test the possibilities and limits of the two major analytical ...
Amelang, J. +4 more
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Teaching and Learning Guide for: Episodic Memory in Animals
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
Alexandria Boyle +1 more
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Pallas, 2017 This article explores the conceptual models that underlie the ways conversion to Judaism was thought of during the Roman period. In the works of Philo of Alexandria, the prevailing model is that of proselytes as new citizens in the politeia of Israel ...
Katell Berthelot
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The Secular and the Sacred: Complementary And/or Conflictual? [PDF]
, 2017 The issue of the relation of the sacred to the secular has become paramount in virtually every country in the world. From church-state relations in the US, with the debates around abortion and same-sex marriage, to the vitriolic discussions in France ...
Akhlaq, Sayed Hassan Hussaini +1 more
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, 2017 Among the weighty treatments of the Gospel of John over the last half-century, one of the most incisive has been Bread from Heaven, by Peder Borgen. As the unity and disunity of the Fourth Gospel had been debated extensively among Johannine scholars for ...
Anderson, Paul N.
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The author of the Book of Wisdom and the date of its origin (2)
Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny, 2011 This article is the second and last part of the longer essay, which was published in the present periodical. The situation of the Jews in Alexandria was specific.
Bogdan Poniży
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