Research Catalog

Title

Journeys in the Roman east : imagined and real / edited by Maren R. Niehoff.

Publication

• Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Niehoff, Maren.

Description

ix, 440 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Series Statement

Culture, religion, and politics in the Greco-Roman world, 2510-0785 ; 1

Uniform Title

Culture, religion, and politics in the Greco-Roman world ; 1.

Subject

• Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature > Congresses
• Travel, Ancient > Congresses
• Travelers > Rome > Congresses
• Jewish authors > Congresses
• Christian authors > Congresses
• Rome > Historical geography > Congresses

Note

• International conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Journeys on the way to this volume / Maren R. Niehoff -- The view from Aphrodisias and Hadrianoutherae / Ewen Bowie -- The romance of imperial travel in Aelius Aristides's Smyrna orations / Janet Downie -- The account of a journey in the Erotes of [Pseudo-]Lucian in the context of ancient travel / Nicola -- Zwingmann -- Virtual journeys in the roman near east : maps and geographical texts / Benjamin Isaac -- There and back again : a journey to Ashkelon and its intertexts in Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 4:6 (= Hagigah 2:2) / Amit Gvaryahu -- Apodemia : the adventure of travel in the Greek / Froma Zeitlin -- Indian travel and cultural self-location in the life of Apollonius and the acts of Thomas / Kendra Eshleman -- Parodies of educational journeys in Josephus, Justin Martyr, and Lucian / Maren R. Niehoff -- The historiographical vehicle of Lucian's journey in Verae Historiae / Jonathan Price -- Strangers on the road : otherness, identification, and disguise in rabbinic travel tales of late Roman Palestine / Catherine Hezser -- Concord and communitas : Greek elements in Philo's account of Jewish pilgrimage / Ian Rutherford -- Imposing travelers : an inscription from Galatia and the journeys of the earliest Christians / Laura Nasrallah -- "Lead Me Forth in Peace": the origins of the wayfarer's prayer and rabbinic rituals of travel in the Roman world / Sarit Kattan Gribetz -- Touching and feeling in late antique Christian pilgrims' narratives / Georgia Frank -- the wandering Jesus : Luke's travel narrative as part of his hermeneutical strategy of "double codification" / Reinhard Feldmeier -- Jesus's descent to the underworld in the Babylonian Talmud and in Christian literature of the Roman East / Richard Kalmin -- "Going up to Rome" in Josephus 's antiquities / Daniel Schwartz -- From disaster to disclosure : the shipwreck in the book of Acts in light of Greco-Roman ideology / Knut Backhaus -- "From Syria all the Way to Rome" : Ignatius of Antioch's Pauline Journey to Christianity / Yonatan Moss.

Call Number

JFE 18-4827

ISBN

• 9783161551116
• 3161551117

LCCN

9783161551116

OCLC

1017090140

Title

Journeys in the Roman east : imagined and real / edited by Maren R. Niehoff.

Publisher

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Culture, religion, and politics in the Greco-Roman world, 2510-0785 ; 1

Culture, religion, and politics in the Greco-Roman world ; 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Niehoff, Maren.

Other Standard Identifier

9783161551116

Research Call Number

JFE 18-4827