In the Roman Empire, travelling was something of a central feature, facilitating commerce, pilgrimage, study abroad, tourism, and ethnographic explorations. The present volume investigates for the first time intellectual aspects of this phenomenon by giving equal attention to pagan, Jewish, and Christian perspectives. A team of experts from different fields argues that journeys helped construct cultural identities and negotiate between the local and the particular on the one hand, and wider imperial discourses on the other. A special point of interest is the question of how Rome engages the attention of intellectuals from the Greek East and offers new opportunities of self-fashioning. Pagans, Jews, and Christians shared similar experiences and constructed comparable identities in dialogue, sometimes polemics, with each other. The collection addresses the following themes: real and imagined geography, reconstructing encounters in distant places, between the bodily and the holy, Jesus' travels from different perspectives, and destination Rome. The articles in each section are arranged in chronological order, ranging from early imperial texts to rabbinic and patristic literature.
Maren R. Niehoff Libri
16 aprile 1963
Maren R. Niehoff approfondisce il pensiero ebraico e i testi antichi. Il suo lavoro si concentra sui modi in cui gli antichi scritti ebraici vennero interpretati e su come si intersecassero con le più ampie tradizioni accademiche del loro tempo. Niehoff indaga come gli autori plasmarono l'identità e la cultura attraverso l'analisi letteraria, e come le figure e le loro narrazioni si evolsero in scritti successivi. La sua erudizione illumina le intricate relazioni tra tradizione religiosa, studi letterari e storia intellettuale.
Judentum und Hellenismus
- 120pagine
- 5 ore di lettura