...Matthew J. Chalmers This article treats the intersection of a “peripheral people”—specifically Samaritan Israelites—with scholarly narratives of disaster concerning Late Antiquity. A disaster is not so much a one-off event as an ongoing series of collective experiences, patterned and repatterned...

...Stanisław Adamiak © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 3. Liber pontificalis 1–86 ( Le Liber Pontificalis , ed. L. Duchesne, Paris 1886; cf. Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER405, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=405 ). 4...

...David J. DeVore Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History , a seminal late-antique historical narrative, features three periodizations of the church’s past. First, a soteriological periodization divides God’s relationship with humanity at Christ’s Incarnation, an event that Eusebius marks in Book 1...

... and encouragement at various stages of the conceptualization and drafting of this paper. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Syriac Christians Sasanian Empire Late Antiquity Violence Persecution Jews Frontiers The history of ancient Christianity is often framed...

...Jared Secord; Jessica Wright In this article, the authors propose that late antique medicine is a rich and versatile subject to teach in undergraduate courses, despite a seeming lack of sources and teaching resources. Following an introduction, authors Crislip, Langford, Llewellyn Ihssen, and Marx...

... and Permissions web page, http://sla.ucpress.edu/content/permissions . 2019 catacombs early Christianity socio-economic history Late Antiquity Judaism identity formation burial practices The catacombs of Rome are perhaps the single most remarkable ancient funerary monument to survive...

.... By developing an understanding of its hermeneutical function for the rabbis, this article helps to elucidate the value of suffering for rabbinic literature as a subset of late antique religious discourse. © 2019 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests...

...Blossom Stefaniw The 20 th century saw intense change in theories of knowledge. How can we integrate such developments with our approach to knowledge (as represented in texts) in Late Antiquity? What happens if we apply the notion of knowledge as a product of specific acts and institutions...

...Norman Underwood This article explores the socio-economic aspects of medical care in Late Antiquity with a particular emphasis on how payments and medical costs shaped perceptions of physicians as fee-charging individuals. As it illustrates, criticisms of physicians for greed, hucksterism...