Religious diversity in late antiquity

579 Pages·2010·13.67 MB·English

by  Bangert

RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN LATE ANTIQUITY
LATE ANTIQUE
ARCHAEOLOGY
Editorial Board
SERIES EDITOR
LUKE LAVAN
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Albrecht Berger
Will Bowden
Kim Bowes
Averil Cameron
Beatrice Caseau
Alexandra Chavarrìa
James Crow
Simon Ellis
Sauro Gelichi
Lale Özgenel
Jean-Pierre Sodini
Bryan Ward-Perkins
Enrico Zanini
VOLUME 6 – 2008
RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
IN LATE ANTIQUITY
EDITED BY
DAVID M. GWYNN
and
SUSANNE BANGERT
CONCEIVED AND CO-ORDINATED BY
LUKE LAVAN
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF
CARLOS MACHADO
and
MICHAEL MULRYAN
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2010
Cover illustration: Interior visualisation of the Alacami (Richard Bayliss).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Religious diversity in late antiquity / edited by David M. Gwynn and Susanne Bangert ;
conceived and co-ordinated by Luke Lavan ; with the assistance of Carlos Machado
and Michael Mulryan.
p. cm. — (Late antique archaeology, ISSN 1570-6893 ; v. 6)
English text; abstracts in French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-18000-0 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Religion—History. 2. Religions—History. 3. Civilization, Ancient. I. Gwynn,
David M. (David Morton), 1975– II. Bangert, Susanne. III. Lavan, Luke. IV. Title.
V. Series.
BL96.R44 2010
200.93—dc22
2009053517
ISBN 1570-6893
ISBN 978 90 04 18000 0
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ...................................................................... ix
List of Contributors ..................................................................... xi
Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity: An Introduction ............. 1
David M. Gwynn and Susanne Bangert
Bibliographic Essay
Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity: A Bibliographic Essay .... 15
David M. Gwynn
Jews and Samaritans
Third Century Jews and Judaism at Beth Shearim and Dura
Europus .................................................................................... 135
Jodi Magness
Artistic Trends and Contact between Jews and ‘Others’ in Late
Antique Sepphoris: Recent Research ...................................... 167
Zeev Weiss
Archaeological Aspects of Samaritan Research in Israel .......... 189
Shimon Dar
Orthodoxy and Heresy
The Limits of the Heresiological Ethos in Late Antiquity ........ 201
Michel-Yves Perrin
Archaeology and the ‘Arian Controversy’ in the Fourth
Century .................................................................................... 229
David M. Gwynn
vi contents
Where is the Archaeology and Iconography of Germanic
Arianism? ................................................................................. 265
Bryan Ward-Perkins
Popular Piety
The Archaeology of Pilgrimage: Abu Mina and Beyond .......... 293
Susanne Bangert
The Archaeology of the Stylite ................................................... 329
Lukas Amadeus Schachner
Magic and Religion
Magic and Syncretic Religious Culture in the East ................... 401
Arja Karivieri
Magic in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of Magical Gems ....... 435
Carla Sfameni
Sacred and Secular
The Use of Secularised Latin Pagan Culture by Christians ...... 477
Claude Lepelley
The Sacred and the Secular: The Presence or Absence of
Christian Religious Thought in Secular Writing in the
Late Antique West ................................................................... 493
Mark Humphries with David M. Gwynn
Literary Genre or Religious Apathy? The Presence or Absence
of Theology and Religious Thought in Secular Writing in
the Late Antique East .............................................................. 511
Elizabeth Jeffreys
contents vii
John Chrysostom’s Audiences and His Accusations of Religious
Laxity ....................................................................................... 523
Isabella Sandwell
Abstracts in French ...................................................................... 543
Index ............................................................................................ 549
Erratum ........................................................................................ 563
Series information ........................................................................ 565

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The editing and publication of this collection of studies on religious
diversity in the late antique world has inevitably incurred many debts.
The original conference that inspired this volume met in the Ashmolean
Museum in Oxford in March 2005, under the title “The Religion of
‘The Rest’: Heresy, Apathy and Popular Piety in Late Antiquity”. The
conference was organised jointly by Luke Lavan, Bryan Ward-Perkins
and Susanne Bangert, and our sincere thanks go to them and to the
audiences who attended, as well of course to the contributors who have
made this volume possible. Our thanks also go out to the many people
with whom we have discussed different aspects of this project for their
advice and encouragement, and to the referees who must remain anony-
mous but who gave of their time to read the articles contained here
and offer many helpful comments. The British Academy, the Craven
Fund and the History Faculty of the University of Oxford generously
supported the original conference. Finally, Marcella Mulder and Brill
have continued to support Late Antique Archaeology across the years, and
in what has at times been a slow editorial process we are grateful for
their patience and assistance in seeing this volume into the light.