... Manichaeism Late Antiquity Buddhism Zoroaster early Christianity transmission global This article examines what this new testimonium tells us about how Mani and his early followers might have imagined their relationship to other religious traditions. It will be shown that, while Mani might have...

..., helping Kosmas (?), and this Holy Place is … let my caravan be kept safe … let it (the sea?) be safe for a ship, let him lead (?) … the matters and … ” 8 © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 Late Antiquity Himyar synagogue epigraphy The widely accepted...

...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 1. Gelasius I, letter 14 ( Epistulae Romanorum pontificum , ed. A. Thiel, Braunsberg 1868, 287–510; cf. Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER 1882, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1882 ); Concilium Spalense a. 619 , canon 7 ( Epistolario...

...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...

... than view the events of the fourth century in isolation, it is necessary to examine the nature and operation of fifth-column accusations on the Roman-Sasanian frontier throughout Late Antiquity. Situated in this context, suspicion of Christian disloyalty was not only the impetus for imperial violence...

...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 how this development, in turn, affected early Christian identity formation. 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...