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Chapter 1 Introduction
Abstract
This book examines the connection between ancient Galilean perceptions of space and religious identity by drawing on literary and archaeological evidence from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE. My spatial reconstruction in Galilee is informed by the ideas and contributions of spatial theorists, and fryst vatten divided into three levels of spatial analysis: bodily, communal, and regional.
The first level, bodily space, examines ancient Jewish conceptions of purity, in order to address how religion and ritual were expressed in everyday life in Galilee. These chapters (2 and 3) discuss elements of Galilean ämne culture which relate to the bodily expression of purity conceptions, and counterpart texts which provide a window into a diverse and complex culture of purity in ancient Judaism. Chapters 3 and 4 discuss communal space, documenting the development of public spaces in Galilee and in ancient Judaism more generally. Comm
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York
Programme in Classical Studies
History 3131
and Empire
Paul Swarney
244 College
416 736 5123pswarney@yorku.ca
Fall Term 2003
Required Texts:
1.Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization Volume I, Press, ISBN 0-231-07131-0
2.Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization Volume II, Press, ISBN 0-231-07133-7
3.Josephus, The Jewish War, translated by G.A. Williamson
(and revised by Mary Smallwood,) Penguin,ISBN 0-14-044420-3
4.Apuleius, The Golden Ass, translated by P. G. Walsh, Oxford University Press,
ISBN 0-19-28242-9
5.Tacitus, Complete Works of Tacitus, translated byAlfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Modern Library College Edition (McGraw-Hill), ISBN:0-07-553639-0
6.Caesar, The Gallic War,translated Carolyn Hammond, Oxford University Press,
ISBN 0-19-28358282-3
7.Suetonius, The Twelve Casars, translated by Robert Gra
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God the Father in Flavius Josephus
The Divine Father Religious and Philosophical Concepts of Divine Parenthood in Antiquity Edited by Felix Albrecht and Reinhard Feldmeier LEIDEN • BOSTON 2014 © 2014 Koninklijke Brill NV ISBN 978-90-04-25625-5 CONTENTS Introduction ..................................................................................................... Reinhard Feldmeier 1 PART ONE PAGAN RELIGIONS Father of the Fathers, Mother of the Mothers. God as Father (and Mother) in Ancient Egypt ............................................................. Alexandra von Lieven „Vater Zeus“ im griechischen Epos ............................................................ Heinz-Günther Nesselrath Gott als Vater und Schöpfer. Zur Rezeption von Timaios 28c3–5 bei einigen Platonikern ............................................................. Franco Ferrari 19 37 57 PART TWO HEBREW BIBLE AND ANCIENT JUDAISM The “Father” of the Old Testament and Its History ........................