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

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2017]
Description
ix, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    Notes
    International conference proceedings.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9783161551116 ((hd. bd. ; : alk. paper))
    • 3161551117
    LCCN
    2017462936
    OCLC
    1017090140
    International Article Number
    • 9783161551116
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