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Title Page
Colophon
Contents
Introduction (Karmen MacKendrick and Jonathan Cahana)
Aeschylus' Persians: Empathizing with the Enemy, or Orientalizing Them? (Manuela Giordano)
Hidden assumptions
Ancient Greece
Aeschylus' Persians: a case study
Conclusions
Revelation At The Limit: Mystery and Matter after the Valentinians (Karmen MacKendrick)
Cosmology
Soteriology
Evocation
One, another
Decolonizing Ancient Sexuality: Three Case Studies (Jonathan Cahana-Blum)
Introduction
David Halperin and Sexual Politics
Dale Martin's Queer History and Sexual Equality
Daniel Boyarin's Gender
Conclusion
Myths as 'Cultural Vectors': Some Reflections on Ancient Greece and Modern Ethnographic Traditions (Luca Pucci)
Why Malinowski and the Greek Myths?
What a myth can be and what it can do
How myths arise, change, and keep themselves up to date
Orality vs literacy
Myths vs history and geography
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Liberating Levi: A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Aramaic and Greek Levi Beyond Denominational Essentialism (Jessica van 't Westeinde)
Modern scholarship and the politics of the modern 'We'
Greek T.Levi from T12P
Beyond binary thinking and denominational essentialism
Cultural-evolutionary theory as a liberation of Levi
Cultural-evolutionary theory applied to the Greek Testament of Levi
Conclusion
Religion And Politics In The Jewish-Christian War In Sixth-Century Himyar (Pieter W. van der Horst)
The upbeat to the war
The sources
The main issue between the Jews and the Christians
The Rape Of Lucretia: Sanctity of Body and Soul in Augustine (Makiko Sato)
Pudor and pudicitia
Pudicitia and sanctitas
Corpus and animus
Conclusion
A Fluidity Of Canon And Textual Criticism In The Works Of Origen (Anna Usacheva).
Introduction
Canonical thinking in Origen's works
Classical Homeric Scholarship and Origen's Textual Criticism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index Of Names
Index Of Subjects.
Title Page
Colophon
Contents
Introduction (Karmen MacKendrick and Jonathan Cahana)
Aeschylus' Persians: Empathizing with the Enemy, or Orientalizing Them? (Manuela Giordano)
Hidden assumptions
Ancient Greece
Aeschylus' Persians: a case study
Conclusions
Revelation At The Limit: Mystery and Matter after the Valentinians (Karmen MacKendrick)
Cosmology
Soteriology
Evocation
One, another
Decolonizing Ancient Sexuality: Three Case Studies (Jonathan Cahana-Blum)
Introduction
David Halperin and Sexual Politics
Dale Martin's Queer History and Sexual Equality
Daniel Boyarin's Gender
Conclusion
Myths as 'Cultural Vectors': Some Reflections on Ancient Greece and Modern Ethnographic Traditions (Luca Pucci)
Why Malinowski and the Greek Myths?
What a myth can be and what it can do
How myths arise, change, and keep themselves up to date
Orality vs literacy
Myths vs history and geography
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Liberating Levi: A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Aramaic and Greek Levi Beyond Denominational Essentialism (Jessica van 't Westeinde)
Modern scholarship and the politics of the modern 'We'
Greek T.Levi from T12P
Beyond binary thinking and denominational essentialism
Cultural-evolutionary theory as a liberation of Levi
Cultural-evolutionary theory applied to the Greek Testament of Levi
Conclusion
Religion And Politics In The Jewish-Christian War In Sixth-Century Himyar (Pieter W. van der Horst)
The upbeat to the war
The sources
The main issue between the Jews and the Christians
The Rape Of Lucretia: Sanctity of Body and Soul in Augustine (Makiko Sato)
Pudor and pudicitia
Pudicitia and sanctitas
Corpus and animus
Conclusion
A Fluidity Of Canon And Textual Criticism In The Works Of Origen (Anna Usacheva).
Introduction
Canonical thinking in Origen's works
Classical Homeric Scholarship and Origen's Textual Criticism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index Of Names
Index Of Subjects.