Ancient history Books
Peeters Publishers Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque Inter
Book SynopsisAlongside his long-awaited systematic introduction to the Pseudo-Clementines, F. Stanley Jones collects into one volume over thirty new and previously published essays on the Pseudo-Clementines, Elchasai, and Jewish Christianity. This corpus spans three decades of concerted research into manuscripts, ancient witnesses, editions, translations, reconstructions, and historical analysis. A chorus of Jewish Christian voices from second/third-century Syria emerges and reveals distinctive beliefs and literary productions in their interface with contemporary Judaism, gentile Christianity, and the pagan world. The Book of Elchasai, for example, is reconstructed and translated as an eye-opening church order from 116-117 C.E. This volume provides vistas for new appreciations of ancient Jewish Christianity as well as of the sparkling diversity in early Christianity generally.
£96.00
Peeters Publishers Liturgie Und Ritual in Der Alten Kirche:
Book SynopsisDie Liturgiegeschichte der Alten Kirche hat durch die Aufnahme ritualtheoretischer Uberlegungen aus dem Bereich der Anthropologie und Ethnologie sowie durch die starkere Beachtung theologiegeschichtlicher Reflexe im Vollzug des Gottesdienstes in den letzten Jahren neue Impulse erfahren. Sie pragen auch die Beitrage dieses Bandes, die aus der Tagung der Patristischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft im Januar 2009 in Bonn hervorgegangen sind. Ein zeitlicher Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der Geschichte des Gottesdienstes im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert.
£46.32
Peeters Publishers L'erreur Et La Faute Dans L' Histoire De La
Book SynopsisSi la faute a fait l'objet d'etudes en lien avec la tragedie, le theme de l'infraction (recouvrant, plus largement, erreur et faute) reste peu etudie dans l'oeuvre de Thucydide. Comment l'historien, qui affirme presenter les faits sans filtre, aborde-t-il cette question a une epoque ou les notions de responsabilite et de culpabilite font l'objet d'une reevaluation? Cette etude demontre la place que prend l'erreur dans la perspective didactique de l'oeuvre. L'etude lexicale des termes exprimant l'infraction (hamartanein et adikein) etablit ainsi leurs nuances d'emploi, en particulier dans les relations entre cites. Les jeux, flottements ou distorsions imposes a cette distinction dans les nombreux discours de l'oeuvre sont egalement mis au jour. Enfin, ces manipulations etant recurrentes, la forme elle-meme du discours, en tant que vecteur de l'erreur, se voit examinee. Ce faisant, cet ouvrage questionne l'intention de Thucydide dans la construction de l'oeuvre.
£56.99
Peeters Publishers More Than Men, Less Than Gods: Studies on Royal
Book SynopsisMore Than Men, Less Than Gods is conceived as a demonstration project, with the goal of opening new perspectives in the study of Graeco-Roman ruler worship. A principal emphasis is placed on the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. The present volume points to some possible forerunners to Hellenistic royal cult and emperor worship, or at least to the concept of the divine king, to supplement the well-studied roots of ruler worship in the cultic life of the Greek polis and in pharaonic Egypt. More than Men...aspires to contribute to the debate relative to divine kingship, royal cult and emperor worship by opening new perspectives or reopening old ones. The focus is in eliciting some audacious and innovative approaches to such a complex phenomenon. All questions are not raised and certainly most of them are not answered here. In abandoning the sterile opposition between 'political' and 'religious,' the volume's perspective transcends established notions conditioned by the Judeo-Christian model of western societies and scholarship, to consider the problem under different perspectives: there is no need to oppose 'Greek' vs. 'oriental,' 'rational' vs. 'emotional' to understand the birth of the phenomenon. The diversity of approaches draws attention to the variety of sources that provide evidence relating to ruler worship, or that can enhance our understanding of the broader phenomenon of the divinization of powerful men. These include myth and historical accounts preserved by ancient authors; dedicatory inscriptions; clay tablets; papyri; architectural decoration and other archaeological remains; statuary, cameos, gems and various minor arts; seal impressions; and coins.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Egypt at Its Origins 3: Proceedings of the Third
Book SynopsisThis volume, publishing the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt (London, 2008), presents the results of the latest research and discoveries in the field which are leading to a better understanding of the origins of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. It contains 54 contributions by 67 authors hailing from around the globe. The articles are organised under ten major themes: Settlement archaeology, mortuary archaeology, object studies, technology of pottery and lithic production, early temples, interaction north and south, chronological investigations, potmark research, script as material culture and theoretical approaches. Each contribution provides new insights into the variety of factors contributing to the rise of the distinct form of the early Egyptian state. Recent discoveries from major sites such as Hierakonpolis, Abydos, and Tell el Farkha, amongst others, are also discussed in detail.
£146.06
Peeters Publishers Die Spatantike Kirche Nordafrikas Im Umbruch
Book Synopsis"Kirchen in den Umbruchen der Spatantike am Beispiel Nordafrika" war das Thema des Treffens der Patristischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft im Januar 2007 in Wien. Verschiedene der dort gehaltenen Vortrage international ausgewiesener Spezialisten sind in diesem Band aufgenommen.Der Band versucht Akzente zu setzen in der Christentumsgeschichte Nordafrikas, und bemuht sich dabei stark um eine historische und archaologische Kontextualisierung. Dabei erscheint Nordafrika nicht nur als eine Kulturlandschaft, die durch ihren christlichen Autoren bestimmend fur die lateinische Christenheit geworden ist; vielmehr ist es auch als eine eigene Entitat bemerkens- und beachtenswert.Folgende Beitrage wurden aufgenommen:Christoph Markschies (Berlin): Der Teil und das Ganze. Die Bedeutung der Kirche in Nordafrika fur die KirchengeschichteRoland Steinacher (Wien): Neue Forschungsperspektiven zur Volkerwanderungszeit in NordafrikaStefan Schima (Wien): Carthagine locuta - causa finita? Afrikanisches Selbstbewusstsein und romischer EigensinnWolfgang Wischmeyer (Wien): Abbruch, Kontinuitat und Transformation. Forschungsbericht zu Nordafrika in Spatantike und Fruhmittelalter
£30.40
Peeters Publishers 'Happiness for Mankind': Achaemenian Religion and
Book SynopsisThe product of twenty years' research, this is the first book to study the way religious concerns permeated Achaemenian culture, deeply influencing such varied things as categories of space, time, number, and causality; constructions of nature, humanity, and moral order; institutions of law, education, and kingship; practices of diplomacy, tribute, irrigation and gardening (including the sumptuous royal gardens designated as 'paradises'). Particular attention is devoted to the role of cosmogonic myths, dualistic ethics, demonological beliefs, the ideology of royal charisma, the sense of Persia as a sacred center, and the conviction that Achaemenian rulers bore unique responsibility for restoring the world's lost perfection and realizing God's plans for creation: a task to be accomplished by reuniting the globe's tragically fragmented peoples.
£95.00
Peeters Publishers A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive reference grammar of Qumran Aramaic. Not only Aramaic texts from Qumran caves, but also contemporary texts originating from other neighbouring locations in the Judaean Desert such as Nahal Hever, Murabba'at, Jericho, and Massada are covered. It would be an important tool of study for specialists in Aramaic linguistics, the Jewish culture of the Second Temple period, and the New Testament. The scope and nature of the grammar is comparable to that of Muraoka - Porten, A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic (2nd revised ed., 2003).
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Die Assyrer Und Das Westland: Studien Zur
Book SynopsisMit dem Beginn der assyrischen Expansion im 8. Jh. v. u. Z. endete schrittweise die politische Unabhangigkeit der Levante. Die Frage, wie die Expansion erfolgte und wie die Assyrer dieses Territorium organisiert und verwaltet haben, steht im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit. Wichtige Aspekte dieser Thematik sind u. a., welche Grenzen die unabhangigen oder annektierten politischen Einheiten hatten, was die Assyrer von den vorhandenen Strukturen ubernahmen und was sie veranderten, welche konkrete Massnahmen einer Annexion folgten. Anhand der Analyse der assyrischen Herrschaftspraxis wird eine neue Interpretation des assyrischen Einflusses in der Region sowie der Rolle des assyrischen Reiches in der Geschichte der Weltreiche geboten. Ausgangspunkt und Grundlage der Arbeit bildet die neuassyrische Toponymie der Levante und ein wesentlicher Teil derselben besteht aus 53 historischen Karten, die die historisch-geographischen Informationen graphisch darstellen: lokalisierbare Ortsnamen (3 Karten), die assyrischen Vorstellungen der Levante (8 Karten), lokalisierbare Gewasser- und Bergnamen (1 Karte), Tribut und Bevolkerungspolitik (5 Karten), assyrische Denkmaler in der Levante (1 Karte), die Westfeldzuge (30 Karten) und die politische Geographie der Levante (5 Karten).
£99.83
Peeters Publishers Afrikanischstammiger Lehnwortschatz Im Alteren
Book SynopsisSprachkontakte zwischen Agyptern und Sprechergruppen des nordostafrikanischen Raumes haben vom ausgehenden vierten Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis in die Mitte des ersten nachchristlichen Jahrtausends zur Entlehnung eines nicht unerheblichen afrikanischstammigen Wortschatzes in die schriftliche Uberlieferung des Agyptisch-Koptischen gefuhrt. Die Relevanz, die diese Transferenzbefunde insbesondere fur die (Sprach-)geschichte des nordostafrikanischen Raumes besitzen, ist in ihrem besonderen sprachhistorischen Zeugniswert sowohl fur die afrikanischen Quellsprachen, als auch das Agyptisch-Koptische zu sehen. Wahrend die Transferenzbefunde agyptischer Quellen fur die unverschrifteten afrikanischen Einzelsprachen die einzigen greifbaren Reflexe fruher Sprachzustande darstellen, bieten sie fur das Agyptische die Moglichkeit zur Uberprufung besonders der lautlichen Verhaltnisse seiner fruhesten verschrifteten Sprachstufe, dem alteren Agyptisch. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, ausgehend von den agyptischen Quellen, vor allem die sprachliche Evidenz der Transferenzbefunde herauszuarbeiten und diese auch in den historischen und sprachhistorischen Kontext einzuordnen. Im ersten Abschnitt der Arbeit erfolgt zunachst ein diachroner Querschnitt zur agyptisch-afrikanischen lexikalischen Interferenz vom dritten Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis in das erste Jahrtausend n. Chr. Abschnitt II bietet synchrone Analysen zu den im alteren Agyptisch uberlieferten afrikanischstammigen Entlehnungen, dem kontextuellen und kotextuellen Zeugniswert der Trageruberlieferungen und der sprachlichen Evidenz der Transferenzbefunde. Im Rahmen eines Lemmakataloges werden daraufhin 428 Entlehnungen dokumentiert und besprochen. Durch die in dieser Arbeit vorgenommenen einzelsprachlichen Anschlusse vor allem nubischer Topo-, Ethno- und Anthroponyme an das nordkuschitische Beja, das Ost- und Zentralkuschitische, das Libysch-Berberische und das Meroitische, erhalten die historischen Sprachkontakte zwischen Agypten und seinen afrikanischen Nachbarn eine konkretere Gestalt.
£98.87
Peeters Publishers An Ancient Egyptian Literary Text in Context: The
Book SynopsisThe book attempts to reconstruct the social context for Egyptian wisdom literature during the Middle and New Kingdoms (c. 2000-1000 BC), using The Instruction of Ptahhotep as a case-study. By looking at the archaeology and material culture of manuscripts, intertextual references and editorial changes to the text over time, the book traces the life of a wisdom poem from the hands of its copyists to the minds of its readers, charting its use and reception over hundreds of years.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers Le Vocabulaire De La Metallurgie Et La
Book SynopsisL'ouvrage d'I. Arkhipov sur Le vocabulaire de la metallurgie et la nomenclature des objets en metal dans les textes de Mari constitue le troisieme volume de la serie des Materiaux pour le Dictionnaire de Babylonien de Paris. Apres des etudes portant sur le vocabulaire des habits et textiles (MDBP I) et sur la vaisselle de luxe (MDBP II), cet ouvrage s'interesse aux techniques et produits de la metallurgie et de l'orfevrerie. Peu d'objets ont ete retrouves lors des fouilles, mais de nombreux documents administratifs et lettres donnent des descriptions souvent tres precises de leur forme, de leur fabrication ou de leur emploi. Une premiere partie etudie le vocabulaire akkadien et ses eventuelles notations ideographiques, a partir du corpus entier des archives de Mari. Les mots y sont classes en douze categories. La seconde partie donne l'edition de nombreux textes administratifs en ordre chronologique. Pas moins de 645 textes sont edites: 114 sont entierement nouveaux, 531 constituent la reprise de textes deja publies (essentiellement dans ARM XXV), collationnes et parfois completes par des joints. L'ensemble est suivi de diverses annexes. L'ouvrage montre le haut niveau technologique atteint par les ateliers syriens a cette epoque ancienne. Ces temoignages ecrits, issus de l'administration du palais de Mari, sont desormais a la disposition de toutes les personnes interessees: philologues, archeologues, historiens des techniques, etc.
£80.72
Peeters Publishers La littérature latine de Livius Andronicus à
Book SynopsisRetraçant l'histoire de la littérature latine de l'Antiquité, depuis ses débuts au IIIème siècle av. J.-C. jusqu'au VIème siècle de notre ère, cet ouvrage s'est imposé depuis sa parution comme une référence dans le domaine des lettres classiques. Il est à présent offert au public francophone, enrichi d'une importante mise à jour bibliographique. Par sa structure systématique, le livre se prête autant à une lecture suivie qu'à une consultation plus ponctuelle, facilitée aussi par le volumineux index. Tout en suivant une approche chronologique, il accorde une place priviligiée aux genres littéraires, présentés dans une série de chapitres diachroniques qui n'ont guère d'équivalent dans les manuels francophones. Autre spécificité, l'attention portée à la permanence des oeuvres latines de l'Antiquité dans les lettres et les arts: la présentation de chaque auteur s'achève par un aperçu - d'ampleur inégalée dans les ouvrages correspondants - de son influence sur la littérature latine postérieure et sur les écrivains, artistes et penseurs qu'il inspira, du Moyen ge à nos jours. À la fois érudite et accessible, cette histoire de la littérature n'est pas seulement un outil de travail précieux pour les étudiants et professeurs en lettres classiques et modernes, mais offre, à toutes les personnes qu'intéressent la culture européenne et ses racines antiques, une introduction idéale à notre héritage latin.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers The Aesthetics of Darkness: A Study of
Book SynopsisDarkness in literature manifests itself as a fascination with the evil passions of man, an emphasis on the ugly and the monstrous, an obsession with morbidity and death, a blurring of the boundaries between reality and imagination; its effect ranges from pleasure in the representation of horror to the overwhelming sense of the sublime. The premise that these trends find their most powerful expression in Romantic literature forms the basis for the exploration of darkness in Hellenistic poetry in the present study: Apollonius' Argonautica, a dark romance building around a heroic quest, is read against the background of fantasy literature and the Gothic novel; Lycophron's Alexandra, a dark remake of Kassandra's prophecy, is seen as an extreme paradigm of Gothic aesthetics; Nicander's Theriaca and Alexipharmaca, two didactic poems on snakes and their antidotes, are reviewed in the light of Romantic science and the aesthetics of Decadence. The introduction provides the theoretical framework where key notions are discussed-the fantastic, the Gothic, the grotesque, the uncanny-, whereas the afterword offers an explanation for the parallelism between the Hellenistic and the Romantic era by reference to their ideological and cultural contexts. The Aesthetics of Darkness is a comparative study which combines the 'close reading' of the Greek texts with literary criticism as well as with specific examples drawn from nineteenth century literature; by thus transcending the boundaries of conventional scholarship, the book attempts to capture the Romantic awakenings of post-Classical literature.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers The Ancient Near East, a Life!: Festschrift Karel
Book SynopsisThis volume in honour of Karel Van Lerberghe contains 47 contributions by his colleagues and students dealing with the history and archaeology of the Syro-Mesopotamian area. The focus on Syria and on the Old-Babylonian period reflects Karel's main research interests. Quite some cuneiform tablets are published here for the first time (both in hand-copy and with the help of the Portable Light Dome). Most recent archaeological field research is presented in contributions concerning Ugarit, Tell Tweini, Tell Beydar and many other sites.
£105.75
Peeters Publishers Kosmos: Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the
Book SynopsisContaining the complete proceedings of the 13th International Aegean Conference, this is almost certainly the biggest book on Bronze Age clothing and jewellery that you are ever likely to see. Nearly 100 papers address a vast array of topics including textile production, costumes, dyes and pigments, colours, jewellery, aesthetics, body adornment, luxury and exotic items, gender and femininity/masculinity, as well as their social, religious, ideological, economic, technological, administrative and philological connections.
£150.00
Peeters Publishers Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity: Exploring
Book SynopsisHow we concieve of the movement of ancient phenomena through time and space has been undergoing reassessment over the last two decades, causing the grip to be loosened on the well-entrenched interpretative models that had dominated research up to that point. The 'Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity' conference, held in Vancouver on March 16-17, 2007, aimed to take stock of this situation and in particular to investigate in fresh ways how regional and global phenomena in the ancient Mediterranean, Near East and Eurasia shaped local life. Still today two models tend to guide explanations of intercultural and interregional contact and interaction: diffusionism from cores (or centres) to peripheries, involving 'superior' civilisations influencing other 'inferior' ones, and Mediterraneanism, the set of distinctive environmental, cultural and historical images that create a unified and unchanging view of the Mediterranean. These two models have come under increasing scrunity since the 1980s, as we have been living in a world of shifting perceptions of time and space and of greater interconnectedness that affects our everyday lives in numerous ways. The source of these shifts has been credited to globalisation, and with it has also come a greater historical appreciation of the phenomenon, including the recognition that the world has witnessed periods of globalisation since the end of the Ice Age. This volume contains 14 reworked and peer-reviewed essays from the original conference proceedings and provides a fair overview of the various chronological periods, methods and data, and perspectives encountered at the conference. The essays consist of case studies whose subjects range in date from the 10th millennium BC to the 4th century AD and draw in all the major regions of the ancient world. These essays and the original conference from which they derive have by no means exhausted all the potential topics raised by the framework within which they work. Much work remains to be done for antiquity and, given the framework's wide applicability, later periods of history.
£94.05
Peeters Publishers Cities and Citadels in Turkey: From the Iron Age
Book SynopsisFor millennia, walled citadels have served both as residences for rulers and military forces and as sacred centers embodying the power of the elite. The outcome of a symposium organized by Koc University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, the essays in this volume are by leading scholars on the area that is now Turkey, from the first millennium BC through the fourteenth century AD. They examine the phenomenon of citadels in a comparative perspective in Anatolia and neighboring regions. Archaeology, art history, and history are brought to bear on the phenomenon of the citadel in its urban context.
£102.52
Peeters Publishers Cults, Creeds and Identities in the Greek City
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the complex and diverse developments in the religious cultures of Greek cities after the classical age. An international team of scholars considers the continuities of traditional Greek religious practices, and seeks to understand the impact of new influences on those practices, notably the deeper engagement with Judaism and how the emergence of Christianity redefined polis religion. The essays illustrate the inadequacy of 'decline' as a model for understanding Greek religion, exploring how dynamic change in religious life corresponded to the transformations in the Greek city. The volume explores how the citizens of the Greek city after the classical age used religion to construct their cultural identities and political experiences and how many of the features of traditional polis religion survived into and shaped the religious mentalities of the Christian era.
£87.54
Peeters Publishers Prosopographia Ponti Euxini Externa
Book SynopsisAlthough there are specialist studies on the mobility of the inhabitants of the cities and regions of the Black Sea, we lack a comprehensive prosopography of those of them active abroad. This work, containing 3358 entries, is a first attempt, casting light on the mobility of different social and professional groups, not only mercenaries and merchants but also itinerant philosophers and artists. It demonstrates that the Black Sea was well integrated into the main circles of the Greek, Roman and Early Byzantine world. Chronologically, the work starts with the earliest attestations and finishes with the end of the 6th century AD. It includes not only people attested by external documents but also persons mentioned by internal inscriptions as having travelled or died outside their country. The area of investigation covers the entire Black Sea coast. The Prosopographia Ptolemaica is used as a model. Each entry follows a set form: name; family relationships (father/mother, son/daughter, brother/sister); type of inscription or category of papyrus; profession or further data on the person's activity; form of the ethnic; dating; testimonies and bibliographical references. For each heading the geographical order of attestations is that of the SEG. There are very detailed indexes (names, cases of double or multiple citizenship, proxenies or other honours awarded abroad, professional categories, etc.).
£104.50
Peeters Publishers From Eurasia to Europe: Crete and the Aegean
Book SynopsisThis research, a unique compilation of scattered material, focused on a reconstruction of the sources of the European system of values embedded in the philosophy of Greco-Roman culture. The author is convinced that the Aegean cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages are to be seen as the dissociated links in a long historical chain uniting an infant Europe with the maternal womb of Eurasia. He carried out on the spiritual world of the Bronze Age man, his relation to nature, his notions of life and death, space and time, his critical values and aesthetic tastes. A detailed description of Greek society and its culture during the period of the so-called Dark Ages is given, and finally special attention has been paid to the critical 8th century BC, the century of Homer, which marks the actual starting point of the history of Ancient Greece. The significance of this manuscript is that all evidence that excavations have revealed, has been incorporated.
£124.00
Peeters Publishers From Old Cairo to the New World: Coptic Studies
Book SynopsisThis present volume is dedicated to Gawdat Gabra, the former director of the Coptic Museum in Cairo and now Professor of Coptology at the University of Claremont in the USA. Dr Gabra is one of the pioneers of Coptic studies in modern times and the author and editor of many valuable and highly regarded monographs, series and articles. Although the papers in this volume do not have a single theme, all of them share an interest and focus on one topic: Egypt. They cover many fields in Coptology and Egyptology, such as art, Biblical studies, liturgy, Copto-Arabic studies and archaeology. They present the results of recent academic research and archaeological excavations. The seventeen contributors to this volume belong to three continents and work in seven countries all over the world, but all of them appreciate the long-time efforts of Gawdat Gabra for Coptic studies on an academic level as well as his indefatigable labour to make laymen aware of Coptic Egypt.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers L'expedition de Sennacherib en Palestine Dans la
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£999.99
Peeters Publishers Cities and Gods: Religious Space in Transition
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the impact of religious traditions on the physical and social organisation of cities in the ancient world. The contributors draw on diverse theories, methods and evidence to identify the existence of broad similarities and differences in the urban religious experience. Individual papers range from the Roman Republican period to Late Antiquity, and encompass the city of Rome, Italy, and both the eastern and western provinces. Specific themes include the relationship between liturgy and temple architecture, the influence of religious traditions on civic spaces, and the impact of Christianity on the pagan city. Together, these papers make the case for the centrality of ritual and religion in the experience of the ancient city and throw light on current debates by providing historical examples of the varied ways in which communities accommodate changing religious practices in the urban fabric.
£76.00
Peeters Publishers Early Iron Age Exchange in the West: Phoenicians
Book SynopsisThe so-called Phoenician 'expansion' in the western Mediterranean is treated here from the point of view of the social and economic factors that led to the phenomenon and the way it evolved over a period of approximately 300 years. To this end, the book gathers, collates and analyses the disparate evidence for networks of interaction in the western Mediterranean and Atlantic regions of Europe and north Africa in the period from the 9th to the 7th century BC. The focus form the less well-known areas of the expansion, the Iberian Peninsula and north-west Africa, which are studied within the broader context of Mediterranean interactions in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods from the Near East to the Atlantic. The discussion is detailed and takes into account some of the latest archaeological discoveries, along with previously unpublished material. Detailed descriptions of selected sites are provided in an appendix.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Histoire, Geographie Et Religion De L'Egypte
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage reunit quarante-sept etudes du professeur Jean Yoyotte (1927-2009) dont un certain nombre de travaux publies dans des revues non egyptologiques ainsi que les comptes rendus de ses cours de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, ou il enseigna comme Directeur d'etudes de 1964 a 1991 et du College de France ou il fut professeur de 1991 a 1997. Les articles reedites ici sont ceux que Jean Yoyotte avait choisis. Republies de maniere uniforme et indexes, afin d'en rendre l'usage plus commode, ils traitent pour la plupart de questions relatives a la pensee religieuse, a la geographie et a l'histoire de l'Egypte ancienne, qui, quoiqu'il s'interessa a tous les aspects de la societe egyptienne ancienne, constituent neanmoins ses sujets de recherche privilegies. Cette somme qui temoigne tant de son immense erudition et de ses multiples curiosites qu'elle revele l'enseignant hors pair qu'il etait, s'adresse tout autant aux egyptologues qu'aux specialistes des cultures du Proche-Orient ancien et du monde hellenistique et romain.
£110.54
Peeters Publishers Kulturkontakte in antiken Welten: vom Denkmodell zum Fallbeispiel: Proceedings des internationalen Kolloquiums aus Anlass des 60. Geburtstages von Christoph Ulf, Innsbruck, 26. bis 30. Januar 2009
Book SynopsisThe volume publishes over 20 papers given at an international conference of the same name held in Innsbruck in January 2009 to celebrate the 60th birthday of Christoph Ulf. The main focus of the conference was discussion of and responses to his paper 'Rethinking Cultural Contacts' (Ancient West & East 8 [2009], 81-132 - reproduced as Appendix 1 in this volume). Ulf's paper offered a model outlining the various forms of cultural contact and sought to explain how and why foreign goods and ideas were taken on and to what extent they were changed in shape and meaning. Just as it was no longer tenable to think of cultural contacts without taking into account the whole chain of exchange - producer, transmitter and recipient - then cultural exchange as a meaningful process of the exchange of goods and ideas between all people involved required an approach, hitherto lacking, by which it can be comprehensively analysed and explained. The contributors are ancient historians, classical archaeologists, philologists and Near Eastern specialists, thus providing a variety of perspectives on cultural exchange in the Mediterranean and the ancient Near East.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers The Periphery of the Classical World in Ancient
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers is dedicated to the problems of centre and periphery in the ancient world in their historical and geographical aspects. These problems are discussed here within a broad chronological scope: from the Mycenaean period, through the flourishing of geographical science in Hellenistic times, to the Roman period, represented by the names of Strabo, Pomponius Mela, Pliny and Ptolemy. The papers embrace all parts of the ancient oikoumene, from Africa in the south and Ireland in the west, through northern and eastern Europe to Central Asia in the east. Several authors have devoted their contributions to ancient mapmaking and how this reflects Greek and Roman conceptions of the periphery of the ancient world. The authors are drawn from across Europe: France, Italy, Poland and Russia.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers New Approaches to Sidonius Apollinaris: With
Book SynopsisSidonius Apollinaris is a central figure in the literature and history of fifth-century Gaul. But he still awaits sustained debate in modern scholarship. This integrated and international collection of essays explores the potential for a complete commentary on his works, starting with a retrospective on Sidonius scholarship up to the present, and then focusing in turn on his verse and his prose. The strangeness of his poetry triggers a critical contemporary assessment and a proposal for better understanding through the theory of Cultural Memory; there follow case studies of the panegyrics and of poems within the letters, and examinations of his intertextuality with Horace and Claudian. Research into Sidonius’ prose is represented by two contrasting essays on the composition of the letter collection, by a demonstration of how Sidonius constructs history to create contemporary identity, and by a groundbreaking chapter applying text linguistics to the letters. An appendix fills a significant scholarly lacuna with Helga Köhler’s indices to her commentary on Letters, Book 1 (Heidelberg, 1995). The present volume will be important for both literary and historical scholars of the late Roman world, for both Classicists and Medievalists.
£89.00
Peeters Publishers Aram Periodical. Volume 22 - The Mandaeans
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£114.00
Peeters Publishers The Age of the Successors and the Creation of the
Book SynopsisAfter conquering one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen, Alexander the Great died prematurely in 323 B.C., without leaving a suitable heir to the throne. During the next decades his generals, thenceforth known as the Diadochoi or Successors, unremittingly fought over the king's inheritance. The balance of power which ultimately resulted from their struggle would determine the course of events in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries to come. Despite its historical importance many aspects of the age of the Successors remain underexplored. Written by leading international specialists, the 24 contributions to this book help in remedying that situation by addressing new issues or shedding fresh light on old questions. They not only explore the written and material evidence for the epoch, the Successors' armies and military campaigns, their political ambitions and relationships with Greek cities, but they also address several social, economic, religious, numismatic, art-historical and urbanistic issues. They will significantly enhance our knowledge of the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms as well as on the then prevailing dynastic ideas and practices. The book is of interest to students of Hellenistic history and archaeology, and Greek historiography.
£105.00
Peeters Publishers Historische Wasserleitungen. Gestern - Heute -
Book SynopsisAm Beginn der Vorbereitungsarbeiten für dieses Symposium stand die Idee, eine neue Auszeichnungskategorie für historische Wasserleitungen zu schaffen. Da die Idee ihren Ausgangspunkt in Wien hatte, fand das Symposium auch in Wien statt und der Titel der Veranstaltung lautete daher “Historische Wasserleitungen. Gestern – Heute – Morgen“. Ein besonderer Aspekt dieser internationalen Tagung sollte die Berücksichtigung der denkmalgerechten und betriebssicheren Erhaltung der vorgestellten Bauten sein. Erwünscht waren einerseits Beiträge zu beispielhaft erhaltenen historischen Wasserleitungen, die heute zumindest teilweise noch in Betrieb sind und zur Wasserversorgung verwendet werden und andererseits Fallbeispiele historischer Wasserleitungen, die unter Einbeziehung kultur-touristischer Aspekte besonders gut präsentiert sind oder es wert wären, besonders gut präsentiert zu werden. Die Tagung fand im Oktober 2011 statt und obwohl sich als Abschluss der Tagung ein eigener Workshop, an dem Vertreter von ECOVAST (European Council of the Village and Small Town) und der Frontinus-Gesellschaft teilnahmen, mit der Schaffung eines Awards für historische Wasserleitungen auseinandersetzte, gibt es bisher dazu noch keine Fortschritte. Die 22 Vorträge der Tagung liegen aber nun in diesem Band vor. Der Festvortrag nach der Eröffnung im feierlichen Rahmen zwischen den Partherreliefs des Ephesos Museums beschäftigte sich mit dem Namenspaten der Frontinus-Gesellschaft, Sextus Iulius Frontinus, der um 100 n.Chr. curator aquarum von Rom war und als solcher mit einem modernen CEO (Chief Executive Officer) verglichen wird. Einer der Höhepunkte der Tagung war die Verleihung der Frontinus-Medaille an Prof. Fanny Del Chicca in Würdigung ihrer beispielhaften wissenschaftlichen Leistung, die sie mit ihrem Buch “Frontino, De aquaeductu Urbis Romae, Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento“ erbracht hat. Ausgehend von den historischen Wasserleitungen in Wien von der Römerzeit bis zur zweiten Hochquellen-wasserleitung spannt sich der Bogen der Beiträge topographisch von Usbekistan, über Syrien, Türkei, Österreich, Deutschland, Italien, Spanien und Portugal bis nach Südamerika und zeitlich von den Hethitern über die Römer bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Dabei wurden die Aquädukte des Römischen Reiches gleichermaßen behandelt wie die Wasserleitungen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. Drei Beiträge befassen sich mit Wassertürmen als Teil von Wasserleitungen, weitere Beiträge gibt es zu mit einem Nymphäum, zu Mühlen und zur Wasserversorgung privater Nutzer. Und jeder Beitrag geht in irgendeiner Form mehr oder weniger auf den Zustand der Wasserleitungen und deren Erhaltungswürdigkeit ein, auch wenn es nicht immer einfach ist diese Bauwerke tatsächlich zu erhalten, weil sie großteils nicht mehr in Betrieb sind. Im Anhang wird die Bedeutung von Sinteranalysen bei der Erforschung von Aquädukten erörtert. Damit liegt ein weiterer interessanter Band zu historischen Wasserbauten vor.
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Peeters Publishers Identifiers and Identification Methods in the
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a survey of how people were identified in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to Greece and Rome. Rather than discussing the identifiers themselves, the contributions focus on the selection of elements such as names, genealogy, titles, or ethnics, as well as on legal confirmation of identity in the form of witnesses, seals or signatures. The varying socio-onomastic and legal conventions illustrate intense cultural exchange as well as regional traditions in the Ancient World, and this collection of papers will be of interest to both social and legal historians.
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Peeters Publishers Production and Prosperity in the Theodosian
Book SynopsisDespite the large increase in material evidence datable to the Theodosian period (379-455 C.E.), textual sources still dominate our view of the period. This has led to a pretty bleak picture made up of foreign invasions, loss of territory, a weak ruler dynasty, a state-driven distribution system, and declining cities. And yet, many regions of the Roman Empire seem to have been doing quite well. For this reason, this volume aims at a re-evaluation of the prosperity of the Roman Empire under the Theodosii. Archaeological, historical, epigraphic and numismatic research are combined to investigate the vitality and socio-economic potential of distinct regions of the empire; to explore the relative importance of cities, villages, fortresses and estates in patterns of purchase and consumption; to gain insights into the mechanisms and forces underlying production, distribution and consumption of both staple goods and luxury products; and, eventually, to offer explanations for the general condition and functioning of the empire.
£78.12
Peeters Publishers Marduk-remanni: Local Networks and Imperial
Book SynopsisMarduk-remanni was a Babylonian man who lived in the provincial town of Sippar during the first decades of Persian rule in Mesopotamia (second half of the sixth century BC). His archive of c. 187 cuneiform texts was found in 1881 during excavations carried out on behalf of the British Museum, but since then it has received little attention. On first sight, the historical relevance of Marduk-remanni's records seems minimal. They relate to his private assets, business enterprises, and legal concerns - matters that barely seem to transcend the personal and local spheres. But upon closer scrutiny, it becomes clear that Marduk-remanni was at the centre of a far-flung personal network and that his life, despite his having lived far from the political centre, reflects many of the developments and changes taking place at the highest imperial level. He was a child when Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylonia, and although this regime change caused little upheaval outside the political arena at first, by the time of Marduk-remanni's death several decades later, the world of his childhood had changed. His life had taken a completely different course than that of his father and grandfather. He had traveled near and far, visiting the Persian court at Susa on several occasions. No longer were the horizons of his world confined to the Babylonian heartland, as they had been for his father and grandfather. Marduk-remanni was born in provincial Babylonia, but he died as a citizen of a world empire. This book traces the social, economic and political dynamics that transformed his life.
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Peeters Publishers Egypt in the First Millennium AD: Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-first annual British Museum Egyptology Colloquium, which was the first in the series dedicated to post-pharaonic Egypt. The volume investigates continuity and change in the archaeological record in the First Millennium AD, focusing on the transitions to and from Late Antiquity (AD 250-800), when Egypt's population became Christian and, later, Islam was introduced. The fourteen contributors, representing the overlapping disciplines of Egyptology, Archaeology and Art History with specialisations in the pharaonic, Roman and Late Antique periods, present the results of new archaeological research at a range of sites currently under investigation. Seeking to identify trends and compare results, the volume is organised according to four major themes: 1) settlements, 2) cemeteries, 3) settling rock-cut tombs and quarries and 4) temple-church-mosque. Many of the contributions address adaptive reuse of earlier architecture, the recycling of earlier monuments as building material (i.e. spolia), or both. Traditionally neglected by modern scholars in favour of other periods in Egypt's long history, the study of First Millennium AD archaeology offers increasingly better opportunities to evaluate both Egypt's distinctiveness and its role within the wider Mediterranean region.
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Peeters Publishers Funerary Reliefs from the West Pontic Area
Book SynopsisThis book brings together, for the first time, tombstones of the 6th-1st centuries BC from the necropoleis of the Greek colonies of the whole western Black Sea area (modern-day Bulgaria and Romania). It studies monuments with relief decoration - 98 pieces (from Apollonia, Bizone, Callatis, Dionysopolis, Histria, Mesambria, Naulochos, Odessos and Orgame) are examined and illustrated in a geographically arranged catalogue, which is preceded by a full discussion of typologies, iconography, chronology, compositional elements, material, workshops and production, etc. The book is not merely a case study but also an examination of Greek funerary art in general, offering parallels from mainland Greece, the Greek islands and Asia Minor, and noting general tendencies as well as local peculiarities specific to the western Black Sea.
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Peeters Publishers Inside and Out: Interactions between Rome and the
Book SynopsisIn recent years, exciting new discoveries of inscriptions and archaeological remains on the Arabian Peninsula have led to a re-evaluation of the peoples on the Arabian frontier, which through their extensive contacts with Rome and Persia are now seen as dynamic participants in the Late Antique world. The present volume contributes to this recent trend by focusing on the contrast between the 'outside' sources on the peoples of the frontier - the Roman view - and the 'inside' sources, that is, the precious material produced by the Arabs themselves, and by approaching these sources within an anthropological framework of how peripheral peoples face larger powers. For the first time, the situation on the Arabian frontier is also compared with that on the southern Egyptian frontier, where similar sources have been found of peoples such as the Blemmyes and Noubades. Thus, the volume offers a richly-documented examination of the frontier interactions in these two vibrant and critically-important areas of the Late Antique East. The book is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, Egyptologists, Arabists, epigraphists and papyrologists and, in general, to all scholars working in the period of Late Antiquity.
£94.00
Peeters Publishers Children and Family in Late Antiquity: Life,
Book SynopsisThis volume continues the series of five previous Roman Family publications, and puts special focus on social history and living conditions in the familial contexts. It concentrates on three interlinked aspects of family life and interaction: liminal situations regarding demography and ecological factors that lay down the framework for family life, liminal conditions on the edges of familial life regarding child labour, child slaves and sexual attitudes towards children, and local traditions which confront us with people and cultures at the borders of the Roman Empire. By focusing on three recurring points of departure (Late Antiquity, children and childhood, and the encounter between various cultures), and by presenting a wide variety of methodological approaches (from rhetorical analysis of discourses to statistical analysis, and from experiential life stories to iconographic analysis), the present volume offers a view on the status quaestionis of Roman family studies, and widens the thematic points of departure for the study of the Roman family, thus hopefully pointing to fruitful directions for further studies.
£72.00
Peeters Publishers Le parfait de l'indicatif latin: Analyse
Book SynopsisLa multiplicité des emplois du parfait de l'indicatif latin semble renvoyer l'image d'une multiplicité de valeurs. Et dans le cas de sa traduction en français, le recours possible au passé simple, au passé composé, au présent, mais également au plus-que-parfait et au passé antérieur témoigne de la complexité à cerner son signifié en langue, dont la cohérence semble se dérober. L'hypothèse polysémique ne peut évidemment pas s'avérer satisfaisante et les théories développées à ce jour se sont révélées insuffisantes. Cet ouvrage se propose de déceler un signifié unique du parfait de l'indicatif latin, susceptible de subsumer l'ensemble des valeurs construites en discours. La démarche adoptée consiste à placer la dimension énonciative au c÷ur de l'analyse linguistique, et de l'articuler étroitement à l'analyse textuelle: par l'examen minutieux d'un corpus de prose romanesque (Le Satyricon de Pétrone, Les Métamorphoses d'Apulée et Les Confessions de Saint Augustin), le questionnement théorique global et l'analyse narratologique et stylistique s'éclairent réciproquement.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers Peuples de la Mer, Phéniciens, Puniques: Études
Book SynopsisThe volume contains studies dealing with Mediterranean history in the first millennium B.C., based mainly on epigraphic data. Chapter I concerns the Philistines and the kingdom of "terra firma", established by "Sea Peoples" on the Lower and Middle Orontes and in the Aleppo area, showing their Mycenaean background. Their obvious relations with the Phoenicians lead to the presentation of the newly identified material referring to the goddess Tanit, best known from Carthage, but coming from the Levant. Information provided by classical sources is then discussed in two chapters dealing with Herodotus and with later sources giving some information on Phoenician and Punic law and jurisprudence. The second part of the book consists in an analysis of Phoenician, Punic, and Neo-Punic inscriptions which so far have not been fully deciphered or interpreted. Most of them come from North Africa, but inscriptions from Ibiza and Sardinia are examined as well. Some of them offer the possibility of better understanding the molk-sacrifice and its human implications, especially in the second and first centuries B.C. Attention is paid also to the meaning and the implications of some personal names appearing in those inscriptions.
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Peeters Publishers Graeco-Roman Archives from the Fayum
Book SynopsisThe Fayum is a large depression in the western desert of Egypt, receiving its water directly from the Nile. In the early Ptolemaic period the agricultural area expanded a great deal, new villages were founded and many Greeks settled here. When villages on the outskirts were abandoned about AD 300-400, houses and cemeteries remained intact for centuries. Here were found thousands of papyri, ostraca (potsherds) and hundreds of mummy portraits, which have made the area famous among classicists and art historians alike. Most papyri and ostraca are now scattered over collections all over the world. The sixth volume of Collectanea Hellenistica presents 145 reconstructed archives originating from this region, including private, professional, official and temple archives both in Greek and in native Demotic.
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Peeters Publishers Physis: L'environnement naturel et la relation
Book SynopsisThis volume proposes the proceedings of the 14e Rencontre égéenne internationale/14th International Aegean Conference, held in Paris, at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'art (INHA), on 11-14 December 2012, on the theme PHYSIS. L'environnement naturel et la relation homme-milieu dans le monde égéen protohistorique. Fifty contributions were presented in seven sections: "Cadre naturel", "Ressources naturelles", "Paysage et climat", "Iconographie", "Agriculture", "Ressources animales", "Peuplement et population". Twenty-three short presentations are included as posters.
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Peeters Publishers Exposé du mythe valentinien et textes liturgiques
Book SynopsisLes valentiniens ont-ils institué une première et une seconde classe du salut? Saint Irénée les en accuse en dénonçant l'arrogante impeccabilité des parfaits de la secte, leur mépris pour les psychiques de la Grande Église, leur eschatologie à double fond. L'Exposé du mythe valentinien et les textes liturgiques du codex XI de Nag Hammadi nous présentent un tableau bien différent. Pas question de vivre en conventicules d'occultistes frileux, il faut se mêler à la masse des fidèles. Nul fossé ne doit séparer les esprits parfaits des âmes simples. Tout ce monde visible est une école de l'invisible, où se dévoilent les desseins de la Providence. Jésus est venu pour «l'économie», c'est-à-dire pour les concessions miséricordieuses, en vue du «redressement» et du salut de tous. Rarement un écrit gnostique aura livré, de la rédemption, une image plus unitaire. Devant les nombreuses lacunes d'un texte très détérioré, W.-P. Funk a adopté un parti pris de prudence: les reconstructions qu'il propose procèdent de la logique et de la grammaire, à l'exclusion de tout parallèle avec d'autres documents valentiniens. À ce prix seulement, on peut préserver l'originalité d'un auteur qui, tout en exposant le mythe fondateur du valentinisme, dont il connaît déjà un grand nombre de variantes ou d'interprétations contradictoires, adopte une ligne très personnelle, que l'introduction, la traduction et le commentaire de J.-P. Mahé s'efforcent de mettre en valeur. Les textes liturgiques de l'annexe, sur le Baptême et sur l'Onction et l'Eucharistie nous introduisent au c÷ur de la communauté. En cette fin du IIe siècle, le valentinisme n'est pas encore une secte. C'est une interprétation globale de la vie chrétienne qui espère pouvoir concerner la totalité des fidèles.
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Peeters Publishers L'écriture de soi à Rome: Autour de la
Book SynopsisLa conception de soi-même à Rome n'a que peu à voir avec celle qui semble triompher à la fin du XVIIIe siècle en Europe, où l'on assiste littéralement à la naissance d'un genre promis à un grand avenir: l'autobiographie. La correspondance de Cicéron, «ego-document» de première importance, fournit un angle d'étude particulièrement intéressant à cet égard. Elle témoigne, dans le cadre d'une sociabilité fondée sur les devoirs imposés par l'amicitia, des formes et des contraintes qui présidaient à la représentation de soi-même au sein de l'élite romaine. Mais surtout, inséparable des crises de la République tardive, elle développait un discours innovant où la priorité était parfois moins l'information que l'examen du rôle adéquat à jouer. Écrire devenait alors un art de l'évaluation des circonstances et de l'acte approprié: une technique de soi, développée avec les amici docti dans un cadre privé, une des formes que pouvait prendre à Rome le souci politique de soi-même.
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Peeters Publishers L'École de Gaza: espace littéraire et identité
Book SynopsisOrganisé à Paris au Collège de France du 23 au 25 mai 2013, le colloque international «L''École de Gaza: espace littéraire et identité culturelle dans l'Antiquité tardive» pose un jalon supplémentaire dans le développement d'un sujet en plein essor. Les Actes qui en résultent donnent un état des lieux de la recherche la plus récente, consacrée spécifiquement aux problématiques textuelles, sur les auteurs de langue grecque, grammariens, rhéteurs et sophistes ayant écrit à Gaza dans le dernier quart du Ve et les quarante premières années du VIe siècle. Les contributions de 25 spécialistes sont ici organisées selon un parcours thématique pluridisciplinaire, les ÷uvres conservées - dont certaines viennent à peine d'être découvertes ou réattribuées - ressortant au premier chef de la rhétorique tout en intéressant aussi l'histoire, la science, la philosophie ou la poésie.
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Peeters Publishers Superstition ou individualité?: Déviance
Book SynopsisCe livre propose d'aborder l'histoire des religions de l'époque impériale sous un angle tout à fait innovant: celui des variations du comportement religieux. Ces disparités ne s'observent pas seulement dans l'opposition entre un ritualisme païen collectif et la foi chrétienne individuelle; elles se trouvent aussi dans une gestion plus personnelle de la religiosité par les fidèles. Jörg Rüpke cherche les facteurs de ces changements dans le réseau dense des cultes publics, maîtrisé par les aristocraties municipales, mais accessible à tout un chacun, et adopte un regard résolument centré sur le comportement religieux individuel. Il postule que les textes normatifs et condamnateurs de l'Antiquité, si souvent étudiés pour délimiter le champ d'action de l'élite et des intellectuels, offrent aussi une fenêtre d'investigation sur les actes d'appropriation individuelle du religieux à travers les atteintes aux normes - la "déviance". Superstition ou individualité? Déviance religieuse dans l'Empire romain prend le pari de montrer qu'à l'échelle de la personne antique, ce que nous appelons "la religion romaine" n'a rien de figé ou d'immuable.
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Peeters Publishers Les Actes de Pierre et des douze apôtres (NH VI,
Book SynopsisActa apostolorum et conte fantastique, récit post-résurrectionnel et parabole de la quête du Royaume, hymne à la résistance face aux persécutions mais aussi mythe fondateur de la mission chrétienne, ouvrage de propagande tout autant que précis d’évasion, le premier écrit du codex VI de Nag Hammadi se prête à de multiples lectures. Cette polysémie découle d’un processus rédactionnel complexe, dont le texte conserve de nombreuses traces, qui se cristallise en quatre discours distincts dissimulés dans autant de récits à la fois autonomes et interdépendants : une théologie plurivoque, en même temps extatique et symbolique, véhiculée par l’histoire hybride de Lithargoël, à la fois allégorie du salut de l’âme et psychanodie, un enseignement euthymique transmis par le Jésus ressuscité d’une scène épiphanique, une théologie diaconale et une théorie novatrice de la mission chrétienne, corollaires d’un récit missionnaire, et enfin une théologie ascétique et une apologie de la perpétuation de l’Église, renfermées dans une ample métaphore de l’endurance. Si la dernière étape de sa composition peut être attribuée à un cercle mélétien du tout début du IVe siècle, cet apocryphe semble circuler, non seulement en Égypte mais aussi à Rome, en Nubie et en Palestine, au moins jusqu’au XIIe siècle.
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