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This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as its prime example the understudied Christian writer Methodius of Olympus. Among his many works, this book focuses on his dialogic Symposium, a text which exposes an era's new concern to re-orient the gaze of a generation from the past onto the future. Dr LaValle Norman makes the further argument that scholarship on the Imperial period that does not include Christian writers within its purview misses the richness of this period, which was one of deepening interaction between Christian and non-Christian writers. Only through recovering this conversation can we understand the transitional period that led to the rise of Constantine.

Methodius, --- Christian literature, Early --- Greek authors --- History and criticism --- E-books --- History and criticism.

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Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers together the contributions of seventeen scholars involved in Biblical, Early Jewish and Christian studies. The volume attests to the spreading of digital humanities in these fields and presents fundamental analysis of the rise of visual culture as well as specific test-cases concerning ancient manuscripts. Sophisticated visualisation tools, stylometric analysis, teaching and visual data, epigraphy and visualisation belong notably to the varied overview presented in the volume.

digital humaniora --- Manuscripts --- Christian literature, Early --- Jewish religious literature --- Communication in learning and scholarship --- Data mining. --- Digital humanities. --- Digitization. --- History and criticism --- Data processing. --- Technological innovations. --- Humanities --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- Learning and scholarship --- Religious literature, Jewish --- Jewish literature --- Religious literature --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- Codices --- Books --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Codicology --- Diplomatics --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Data processing --- Information technology --- Biblical studies & exegesis --- Manuscripts - Digitization --- Christian literature, Early - History and criticism - Data processing --- Jewish religious literature - History and criticism - Data processing --- Communication in learning and scholarship - Technological innovations --- Data mining --- Digital humanities --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity.By the late antique period, literacy in hieroglyphs had been almost entirely lost. However, the monumental temples and tombs that marked the Egyptian landscape, together with the hieroglyphic inscriptions that adorned them, still stood as inescapable reminders that Christianity was a relatively new arrival to the ancient land of the pharaohs. In Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, Jennifer Westerfeld argues that depictions of hieroglyphic inscriptions in late antique Christian texts reflect the authors' attitudes toward Egypt's pharaonic past. Whether hieroglyphs were condemned as idolatrous images or valued as a source of mystical knowledge, control over the representation and interpretation of hieroglyphic texts constituted an important source of Christian authority.Westerfeld examines the ways in which hieroglyphs are deployed in the works of Eusebius and Augustine, to debate biblical chronology; in Greek, Roman, and patristic sources, to claim that hieroglyphs encoded the mysteries of the Egyptian priesthood; and in a polemical sermon by the fifth-century monastic leader Shenoute of Atripe, to argue that hieroglyphs should be destroyed lest they promote a return to idolatry. She argues that, in the absence of any genuine understanding of hieroglyphic writing, late antique Christian authors were able to take this powerful symbol of Egyptian identity and manipulate it to serve their particular theological and ideological ends.

Egyptian language --- Christian literature, Early --- Church history --- Archaeology and religion. --- Egyptian hieroglyphics --- Hieroglyphics, Egyptian --- Archaeology --- Religion and archaeology --- Religion --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Writing, Hieroglyphic. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Egypt --- Civilization --- Ancient Studies. --- Archaeology. --- Classics. --- Cultural Studies. --- Archaeology and religion --- Writing, Hieroglyphic --- History and criticism

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"In diesem fiktiven Disputationsroman aus dem 6. Jahrhundert gibt sich ein anonymer byzantinischer Autor als Augenzeuge einer Religionskonferenz am persischen Konigshof aus. Nachdem eine Gruppe christlicher Bischöfe sich nacheinander gegen die Hellenen, den zoroastrischen Obermagier und zwei jüdische Rabbinen durchgesetzt hat, kommt es zu einer Spaltung unter den Juden Persiens. Der Held der Erzählung ist der hochgebildete Philosoph, oberste Leibwächter und Mitregent des persischen Königs Aphroditian, der als Schiedsrichter die Vereinbarkeit von hellenischer Kultur und Christentum propagiert, aber mit Kritik an den zerstrittenen Christen nicht spart und für einen friedlichen Ausgang des Treffens sorgt. In dieser Utopie einer gewaltfreien Auseinandersetzung der Religionen hat der wahrscheinlich christliche Autor seine Kritik an den religionspolitischen und kirchlichen Zuständen im Byzanz seiner Zeit literarisch verarbeitet. Diese Ausgabe bietet erstmals eine vollständige deutsche Ü̈bersetzung und Kommentierung des Werkes. In der ausführlichen Einleitung werden die offenen Forschungsfragen zu Datierung, Autorschaft und Intentionen diskutiert und die vielfa︡ltigen antiken Quellen sowie die reiche Rezeption in der byzantinischen und slavischen Welt erschlossen."-- "In this fictional 6th-century debate novel, an anonymous Byzantine author claims to be an eyewitness to a religious conference at the Persian royal court. After a group of Christian bishops has prevailed against the Hellenes, the Zoroastrian chief magician and two Jewish rabbis, there is a split among the Jews of Persia. The hero of the story is the highly educated philosopher, supreme bodyguard and co-regent of the Persian king Aphroditian, who as an arbitrator propagates the compatibility of Hellenic culture and Christianity, but does not save criticism of the disputed Christians and ensures a peaceful outcome of the meeting. In this utopia of a non-violent confrontation of religions, the probably Christian author has literarily processed his criticism of the religious and church conditions in the Byzantium of his time. For the first time, this edition offers a complete German translation and commentary on the work. In the detailed introduction, open research questions about dating, authorship and intentions are discussed and the diverse ancient sources and rich reception in the Byzantine and Slavic world are opened up." --Translated from back cover

Apologetics --- Religious disputations --- Christian literature, Early --- Colloquies, Religious --- Disputations, Religious --- Disputations, Theological --- Religious colloquies --- Religious debates --- Theological disputations --- Theology --- Debates and debating --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- History --- Greek authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Disputations --- De gestis in Perside. --- Exēgēsis tōn prachthentōn en Persidi --- Iran --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Church history. --- Greek authors