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Inheriting and Buying a Homeland: The Land of Israel and the Patriarchs
Full text linkAfter 70 CE, when Israel was no longer an independent nation in the land of Israel and their cultic center was no longer physically present there, the rabbis of the Palestinian and Babylonian diaspora reflect from different perspectives on the beginning of the story of the land, on what can be called the "homeland myth" of the patriarchal narratives of Scripture. In doing so, they create their own ancestral homeland myth. In this article, two sets of rabbinic texts are examined in order to illustrate how the rabbis refashioned the scriptural myth and produced two versions of a rabbinic ancestral homeland myth. The first group of texts are related to the promise of the land and its fulfilment, the second to the establishment of the first Jewish grave in the promised land
The Decline and Fall of the Mithraea of Rome
Full text linkThe end of paganism has traditionally been explained as a result of the rise of Christianity. In recent scholarship, the romantic image of an epic battle between pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity has been significantly altered and corrected. According to the new interpretative model, pagans and Christians lived amicably side by side well into the fifth century, as paganism petered out in a natural way. At the micro-level of the Mithraea of Rome, however, the archaeological record contains clear signs of religious hatred that challenge this revisionist model. The present article discusses how, when, and why the Mithraea in Rome ceased to exist, and it elaborates the question of how these data impact our current understanding of Christian attitudes towards paganism in Late Antiquity
Chaniotis, A. (ed.) 2011. Ritual Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean. Agency, Emotion, Gender, Representation (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES), 49). Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag.
No full textRitual Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean. Agency, Emotion, Gender, Representation (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES
Catacombs, Christian
No full textCatacombs are large, underground cemeteries. The term “catacomb” derives from the Latin ad catacumbas, of uncertain derivation
Genome-scale sequencing and analysis of human, wolf, and bison DNA from 25,000-year-old sediment
Full text linkCave sediments have been shown to preserve ancient DNA but so far have not yielded the genome-scale information of skeletal remains. We retrieved and analyzed human and mammalian nuclear and mitochondrial environmental “shotgun” genomes from a single 25,000-year-old Upper Paleolithic sediment sample from Satsurblia cave, western Georgia:first, a human environmental genome with substantial basal Eurasian ancestry, which was an ancestral component of the majority of post-Ice Age people in the Near East, North Africa, and parts of Europe; second, a wolf environmental genome that is basal to extant Eurasian wolves and dogs and represents a previously unknown, likely extinct, Caucasian lineage; and third, a European bison environmental genome that is basal to present-day populations, suggesting that population structure has been substantially reshaped since the Last Glacial Maximum. Our results provide new insights into the Late Pleistocene genetic histories of these three species and demonstrate that direct shotgun sequencing of sediment DNA, without target enrichment methods, can yield genome-wide data informative of ancestry and phylogenetic relationships.</p
PEACE: The Portal of Jewish Funerary Culture
No full textJewish funerary culture, despite vast amounts of available data, has yet to benefit from comprehensive analyses. While a great amount of data is digitized and available online, it is nonetheless dispersed on various websites, whose databases are unrelated and incompatible with one another. Other data exists only in printed form, and is even less available. My paper will present a new project that intends to modify this state of affairs: PEACE, standing for Portal of Epigraphy, Archaeology, Conservation and Education on Jewish Funerary Culture
Book Review: Attilio Mastrocinque, Joseph E. Sanzo, and Marianna Scapini (eds.), Ancient Magic: Then and Now (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 74), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. 451 pages, 53 b/w illustrations. ISBN 978-3-515-12796-7 (Print), ISB
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