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The Subject Vanishes: Jews, Heretics and Martyrs after the Linguistic Turn, 2024

Since Elizabeth Clark has drawn attention to the functions of ancient rhetoric, how can we move from our texts' rhetorical Jews, heretics and martyrs to the social reality of these ancient actors? And in so doing, how do we avoid the lures of anachronism and the aesthetic shaping of narrative, to write ethically informed history?

Un proyecto educativo para las Iglesias sobre teología práctica que busca ayudar en salud mental de forma organizada y profesional a la vez que transmitir el evangelio

University of Virginia Press

Announcing a new series Varieties of Contemplative Experience The Varieties of Contemplative Experience series from the University of Virginia Press is devoted to wide-ranging humanistic scholarship exploring the world's rich legacy of contemplative traditions across cultures, religions, and historical periods. The ambit of this series ranges from ancient times to the near past and the contemporary, from religions to the spiritual but not religious movement to secular traditions, and from Asia to Africa to Europe to the Americas to Indigenous peoples. Studies can be grounded in a variety of disciplines in the humanities, including Religious Studies, History, Art History, Literary Studies, Anthropology, and Philosophy, as well as transdisciplinary scholarship that engages with the social and natural sciences, as long as there is a strong engagement with the humanities. Manuscripts that engage with broader issues and comparative questions are particularly welcome. Our series seeks to provide a home for all types of innovative research on specific contemplative practices, emergent experiences from contemplation, and related traditions in richly embedded realities. Varieties of Contemplative Experience is a peer-reviewed book series that publishes leading scholarship connected to the study of contemplation. The series editors invite proposals and manuscripts from authors whose scholarship addresses the wide variety of contemplative experiences from any disciplinary and interpretive angle.

Please do not pay attention to the English abstract which was heavily "edited" without letting me know of the changes! The Artezian fortified settlement in the Azov Sea coast of Eastern Crimea perished in a strong fire at the beginning of the Roman-Bosporan war in 46/47 AD. In the homogeneous fire layer, along with numerous items of jewelry, silver, bronze and glass vessels, a heavily burned out round bronze plaque, 7.7–7.8 cm in diameter with a hole in the center was found. The plaque is decorated along the edge with a figural frieze, depicting two pairs of animals opposing each other: a dog – a bull, a dog – a wild boar. Besides two animals are running after each other: a lion and a roe deer. The decoration of the plaque from Artezian finds parallels among plaques from the military camps along the limes of Lower and Upper Rhine and Danube. Objects similar in shape depicting animals in circular friezes are also known in Dacia and in the South-Western Crimea. The parallels to the images of the plaque and options of interpreting the function of the piece are discussed. The combination of pairs of opposing animals and animals running after each other finds parallels only on the belt plaques from Asciburgium and Magdalensberg. Thus, there are reasons to consider the disc from Artezian as an element of Roman military equipment of the first half of the 1st century AD.

Biomechanica Hungarica, 2011

2021

Volume 1 of the LatinNow project's Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. The eBook can be found here: http://bit.ly/MREW1. It focuses on scripts and texts. Volume 2 by Anna Willi treats writing equipment http://bit.ly/MREW2