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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

August 2, 2018

Week in Review (8/2/18)

by Ancient Jew Review


Trellis-carpet mosaic segment, with animals | Lod Mosaic, Israel | Image Source

Trellis-carpet mosaic segment, with animals | Lod Mosaic, Israel | Image Source

Trellis-carpet mosaic segment, with animals | Lod Mosaic, Israel | Image Source

Trellis-carpet mosaic segment, with animals | Lod Mosaic, Israel | Image Source

On AJR

Forum on Berzon’s Classifying Christians finale, with the author’s response: On Taxonomy and Classification: A Response

Berzon: “My abiding interest was in how ancient Christians developed, sustained, and modified conceptual categories and the genres that produced and housed them. From my perspective, the heretics offered a provocative test case in which to consider the various ways in which the accumulation of knowledge was neither a routine nor a necessarily constructive endeavor; rather, I suggested that attempts to classify the heretics in texts raised as many questions and problems as they did answers and solutions.”

Book Note: Jason König and Greg Woolf (ed.), Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Wright: “As a whole, the volume provides compelling evidence that various, interrelated “techniques of self-authorisation” were employed across (what the modern reader might categorize as) different scientific and technical genres, as a means not only for professionals to establish their credentials, but also for non-professionals to situate themselves in the social and political networks of the late Republic and the Roman Empire.”

Articles and News

  • The Bodleian Libraries begins a series of richly illustrated pieces on digitization, beginning with booksquashing!

  • New Testament Review podcast tackles Stendahl on Paul.

  • Razor-sharp discussion of how museums can exhibit collections most effectively and in ways which resist cliché.

  • Another spectacular mosaic unearthed in a Roman villa at Lod.

  • Neat piece dealing with Jewish calendars 101 over at the Lehrhaus.

  • Revisit this superb British Library blog surveying micrography in Jewish manuscripts.

  • Sarah Bond examines a possible fourth-century church discovered during excavations at Rome this summer.

  • Stellar blog post by Tony Burke discussing late antique “apocrypha” and so-called question-and-answer (Erotapokriseis) literature.

Twitter

Over the next couple of weeks we will be looking closely at the digitization of our archive, at what digitization does well, and what it does not-so-well.

It all starts with our introduction to #booksquashing, complete with lots of illustrated examples. https://t.co/O6rFeaEsPF pic.twitter.com/Dm6Epo0ZEZ

— The Bodleian Libraries (@bodleianlibs) 31 July 2018

Pretty excited about potential teaching use of this new textbook - very affordable, concise - plus, Paula Fredriksen says its good (and if Paula Fredriksen says its good, its great)! #lateantiquity https://t.co/zpTlYSltEI

— Matthew Chalmers (@Matt_J_Chalmers) 2 August 2018

Even under Umayyad rule, the Christian communities at Umm ar-Rasas continued to build and renovate their churches. The Church of St. Stephen, the largest at the site, was built in the early 8th C. (4/5)
Umm ar-Rasas - Church of St Stephen
See more: https://t.co/d4QvRjAY61 pic.twitter.com/GNN1CL575D

— Manar al-Athar (@ManarAlAthar) 2 August 2018


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