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N. DesRosiers et L. C. Vuong (éd.), Religious competition in the Greco-Roman world

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Nathaniel DesRosiers et Lily C. Vuong (éd.), Religious competition in the Greco-Roman world, Atlanta, 2016.

Éditeur : Society of Biblical Literature
Collection : Writings from the Greco-Roman world Supplement series
xviii-326 pages
ISBN : 9780884141587
59,95 $

Scholars in the fields of late antique Christianity, neoplatonism, New Testament, art history, and rabbinics examine issues related to authority, identity, and change in religious and philosophical traditions of late antiquity. The specific focus of the volume is the examination of cultural producers and their particular viewpoints and agendas in an attempt to shed new light on the religious thinkers, texts, and material remains of late antiquity. The essays explore the major creative movements of the era, examining the strategies used to develop and designate orthodoxies and orthopraxies. This collection of essays reinterprets dialogues between individuals and groups, illuminating the mutual competition and influence among these ancient thinkers and communities.

 

Source : Society of Biblical Literature

 

G. Bitto, Vergimus in senium: Statius' Achilleis als Alterswerk

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Gregor Bitto, Vergimus in senium: Statius' Achilleis als Alterswerk, Göttingen, 2016.

Éditeur : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Collection : Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben
384 pages
ISBN : 978-3-525-20871-7
100 €

Basierend auf neueren Arbeiten zu künstlerischen Alterswerken, die den Diskurscharakter des Alterswerkbegriffes betonen, zeigt diese Studie, wie der antike Dichter Statius sein zweites Epos, die Achilleis, vor dem Hintergrund vorhandener Ideen zur künstlerischen Produktion im Alter, entwirft. Er erschafft dazu in seinen parallel erscheinenden Gelegenheitsgedichten, den Silven, das Bild eines alternden Dichters und konzeptioniert die Achilleis als komplementäres Nachfolgewerk zur Thebais, das in seiner Gestaltung auf einen alternden Dichter schließen lässt. Das wirkliche Alter des Statius oder seine tatsächliche physische Konstitution werden dabei nicht in den Blick genommen. Vielmehr wird gezeigt, wie Statius in expliziter Form sich als Alternder dem Publikum in den Silven präsentiert und so eine Rezeptionshaltung für die Lektüre der Achilleis erzeugt. So können entsprechende Textsignale auf der Mikro- und der Makroebene im Epos vom Publikum als Belege für einen alternden Dichter gelesen werden.

 

Source : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

 

E. Adler, Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond

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Eric Adler, Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond, Ann Arbor, 2016.

Éditeur : University of Michigan Press
304 pages
ISBN : 978-0-472-13015-3
75 $

Beginning with a short intellectual history of the academic culture wars, Eric Adler's book examines popular polemics including those by Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza, and considers the oddly marginal role of classical studies in these conflicts. In presenting a brief history of classics in American education, the volume sheds light on the position of the humanities in general.
Adler dissects three significant controversies from the era: the so-called AJP affair, which supposedly pitted a conservative journal editor against his feminist detractors; the brouhaha surrounding Martin Bernal's contentious Black Athena project; and the dustup associated with Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath's fire-breathing jeremiad, Who Killed Homer? He concludes by considering these controversies as a means to end the crisis for classical studies in American education. How can the study of antiquity—and the humanities—thrive in the contemporary academy? This book provides workable solutions to end the crisis for classics and for the humanities as well.

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F. T. Harkins et A. Canty (éd.), A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages

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Franklin T. Harkins et Aaron Canty (éd.), A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages, Leyde-Boston, 2016.

Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 73
ISBN : 9789004324435
199 €

The biblical book of Job is a timeless text that relates a story of intense human suffering, abandonment, and eventual redemption. It is a tale of profound theological, philosophical, and existential significance that has captured the imaginations of auditors, exegetes, artists, religious leaders, poets, preachers, and teachers throughout the centuries. This original volume provides an introduction to the wide range of interpretations and representations of Job—both the scriptural book and its righteous protagonist—produced in the medieval Christian West. The essays gathered here treat not only exegetical and theological works such as Gregory's Moralia and the literal commentaries of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Lyra, but also poetry and works of art that have Job as their subject.

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