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L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante: une analyse comparée de la notion de «démon» dans la Septante et dans la Bible hébraïque
No full textThis book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of divine powers in Hellenistic Judaism, thereby revealing the role of the Greek translation of the Bible in shaping ancient demonology, angelology, and pneumatology. Combining philological and semantic analyses with a historical approach and anthropological insights, the author both develops a new method for analyzing religious categories within biblical traditions and sheds new light on the importance of the Septuagint for the history of ancient Judaism
To eat or not to eat: studies on the biblical dietary prohibitions
No full textAnna Angelini and Peter Altmann address pivotal issues on the biblical dietary prohibitions and their significance as practices and texts through philological, zooarchaeological, iconographic, and comparative ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman lenses. They explore theoretical frameworks adopted in modern interpretation, possible origins in relation to ancient Israelite religion and society, and location in relation to Priestly terminology and Deuteronomic tradition. The authors expand the arc of investigation to the Second Temple reception of the prohibitions in both the Dead Sea Scrolls and Greco-Roman discourses from the first centuries CE. With their foundational studies, they provide an approach to the dietary prohibitions, opening the way for reconstructing their path of development into their present-day contexts
L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante. Une analyse comparée de la notion de “démon” dans la Septante et dans la Bible Hébraïque
No full textThis book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of divine powers in Hellenistic Judaism, thereby revealing the role of the Greek translation of the Bible in shaping ancient demonology, angelology, and pneumatology. Combining philological and semantic analyses with a historical approach and anthropological insights, the author both develops a new method for analyzing religious categories within biblical traditions and sheds new light on the importance of the Septuagint for the history of ancient Judaism
L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante
No full textThis book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of divine powers in Hellenistic Judaism, thereby revealing the role of the Greek translation of the Bible in shaping ancient demonology, angelology, and pneumatology. Combining philological and semantic analyses with a historical approach and anthropological insights, the author both develops a new method for analyzing religious categories within biblical traditions and sheds new light on the importance of the Septuagint for the history of ancient Judaism.; Readership
The reception and idealization of the Torah in the Letter of Aristeas: the case of the dietary laws
No full textIn the Letter of Aristea, the dietary laws are presented as a paradigm for the entire Torah. However, the summary of the dietary laws provided by the author of the Letter for the most does not quote literally the biblical texts, but shows a considerable degree of interpretation of these laws. This paper examines the relationship between
biblical traditions and Greek cultural referents in the presentation of the dietary and sacrificial laws of the Letter, against the background of other texts of Second Temple period which show a reception of these laws (e. g. Philo, Josephus, Qumran texts). It argues that, while the representation of the dietary laws in the Letter attests to a
considerable authority of this section of the Torah from a symbolic point of view, they offer still little evidence as for the practice and the contents of a dietary halacha
Rethinking Images in the Septuagint and Greek Traditions: Eídōlon, Eikōn, and Homoíōma
No full textThis article analyses the semantics of εἴδωλον, εἰκών, and ὁμοίωμα in the LXX in light of Greek literary and documentary evidence. By addressing the issue of the relationship between the vocabulary of images and the vocabulary of idols, (1) it deconstructs some oppositions inherited from early Christian interpretations of biblical passages (especially regarding Genesis 1). Moreover (2) it shows the interest of including evidence from the LXX in a broader discussion on the role of visual representation in antiquity
From Jonah to Pinocchio: on the Biblical Origins of a long-lasting Motif in Sea Epics
No full textThis paper (1) analyzes the motif of the fish swallowing Jonah in light of similar episodes attested in Hellenistic Greek epics and other Hellenistic literary traditions and myths. In light of this evidence, it proposes a possible context in which the biblical story emerged. In addition, the paper (2) also analyzes how this motif developed in early Jewish and early Christian traditions, showing how both traditions shape this motif to fit familiar patterns of sea epics. From a larger perspective, this study both allows us (3) to rethink the attitudes towards seafaring that were traditionally attributed to Judeans in Hellenistic times, while also (4) offering new suggestions as to how we might reposition the epic genre in the Hebrew Bible.Il presente contributo (1) analizza il motivo mitico del pesce inghiottitore narrato nel libro biblico di Giona, ponendolo a confronto con episodi simili attestati nelle tradizioni letterarie di età ellenistica e rivolgendo particolare attenzione ai poemi ellenistici greci. L’analisi mira a identificare un contesto storico e culturale plausibile per l’origine di questo motivo all’interno del libro di Giona. Lo studio (2) analizza inoltre la ricezione del motivo nelle tradizioni giudaiche e cristiane antiche, mostrando come entrambe le tradizioni arricchiscano il racconto originario di nuovi elementi che contribuiscono a forgiare un motivo propriamente “epico”. A un livello più generale, il contributo offre uno spunto (3) per mettere in discussione l’estraneità alla navigazione tradizionalmente attribuita agli Ebrei nell’antichità e (4) per ripensare la presenza del genere epico all’interno della Bibbia ebraica
Mutilazioni genitali femminili
No full textPer Mutilazioni Genitali Femminili (MGF) si fa riferimento ad una serie di pratiche culturalmente radicate in talune popolazioni, specialmente africane, volte alla modificazione degli organi genitali della donna in nome di tradizioni che vedono nell’organo clitorideo una sorta di reminiscenza dell’organo sessuale maschile e che come tale va escisso affinché una donna possa diventare tale ed essere desiderata dagli uomini del proprio popolo. Questa descrizione del fenomeno è tuttavia riduttiva poiché diversi sono i tipi di intervento mutilatorio che le donne possono subire e varie le motivazioni a sua giustificazione.
Sono riconosciute dall’OMS le seguenti tipologie di mutilazioni genitali femminili:tipo: escissione del prepuzio con o senza escissione di parte o di tutto il clitoride; Tipo: escissione del prepuzio e del clitoride assieme all’escissione parziale o totale delle piccole labbra; Tipo: escissione di parte o di tutti i genitali esterni e sutura/ restringimento dell’apertura vaginale (infibulazione);
Tipo: puntura, foratura, incisione, allungamento del clitoride e/o delle labbra, cauterizzazione tramite ustione del clitoride e dei tessuti adiacenti, raschiamento dell’orifizio vaginale o incisione della vagina, introduzione di sostanze corrosive in quest’ultima al fine di causarne il sanguinamento o di erbe con l’intento di provocarne il restringimento o la chiusura ed ogni altra procedura che rientri nella suddetta definizione di MGF.
La ricerca dopo un'attenta analisi ed una puntuale mappatura del fenomeno, individua le strategie più appropriate per il contenimento dell'abuso.
Purity, taboo and food in antiquity: theoretical and methodological issues
No full textThe essays analyize similarities and differences between Lev 11 and Deut 14 in their respective contexts. Utilizing the theoretical perspective provided by Dan Sperber, the essay fleshes out the significance of the diachronic and synchronic difference with regard to the genesis of the prohibitions as well as their reception in Judais
Anna Angelini, Dal Leviatano al Drago. Mostri marini e zoologia antica fra Grecia e Levante, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
No full textLi Causi Pietro. Anna Angelini, Dal Leviatano al Drago. Mostri marini e zoologia antica fra Grecia e Levante, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°14, 2019. pp. 229-231
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