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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
comparative religion
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
Coordinator Office Hours:
by appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
Course/Module description:
aspects of the hellenic culture in late antique Alexandria, Pelusium and Gaza
Course/Module aims:
Enriching the analytical and philological tools required for understanding the development of the religious life in late antiquity and the conversion of the Empire
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
understanding the complexity of the development of Christian Empire on the background of the religious and intellectual Hellenic life and Greco-Roman Religion in Alexandria, Pelusium and Gaza
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Reading and discussing primary sources and secondary literature
Course/Module Content:
see the website of the course
Required Reading:
Bitton-Ashkelony, B. and Kofsky, A. (eds.), Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 2004).
Bitton-Ashkelony, B. and Kofsky, A. The Monastic School of Gaza. Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Series 78 (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
Bowersock, G. Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (Oxford, 1969)
Bowersock, G. Hellenisim in Late Antiquity (Ann Arbor, 1990).
Averil Cameron, ‘Christian Conversion in Late Antiquity: Some Issues’, in Arietta Papaconstantinou, Neil McLynn, and Daniel L. Schwartz (eds.), Conversion in Late Antiquity; Christianity, Islam, and Beyond (Farnham, 2015), pp. 3–21.
Frankurter, D. Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
Gemeinhardt, P., Van Hoof, L., Van Nuffelen, P. eds. Education and Religion in Late Antique Christianity. Reflections, Social Contexts, and Genres. London, New York: Routledge, 2016
Gemeinhardt, P., Georges, T. Between Education and Conversion. Ways of Approaching Religion in Late Antiquity, Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 16. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2012.
Jakubiak, K. “Tell Farama, Pelusium. City urban planning reconstruction in the light of the last researches.” Proceedings of the Fifth Central European Conference of Egyptologists. Egypt 2009: perspectives of research. Pułtusk 22–24 June 2009, J. Popielska-Grzybowska and J. Iwaszczuk (eds), Acta Archaeologica Pultuskiensia 2. Pułtusk: 2009, 65–74
Larsen, L. "The letter Collection of Isidore of Pelusium," in Sogno, C., Storin, B.K., Watts, E.J. Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2016.
Lim, R. “Isidore of Pelusium on Roman Public Spectacles.” In Studia Patristica XXIX, ed. by E. Livingstone. Leuven: Peeters, 1997, 66-74
Markopoulos, A. “Education,” in The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, ed. by E. Jeffreys, J. Haldon and R. Cormack. Oxford: OUP, 2008, 785-795.
Papaconstantinou Arietta, Neil McLynn, and Daniel L. Schwartz (eds.), Conversion in Late Antiquity; Christianity, Islam, and Beyond (Farnham, 2015).
Perrone, L. “Monasticism as a Factor of Religious Interaction in the Holy Land during the Byzantine Period,” in A. Kofsky and G. G. Stroumsa (eds.), Sharing the Sacred: Religious Contacts and Conflicts in the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1998), pp. 67-95
Rubenson, S. "Monasticism and the Philosophical Heritage," in S. F. Johnson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 487-512
Sogno, C., Storin, B.K., Watts, E.J. Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2016
Watts, E. “Education: Speaking, Thinking, and Socializing,” in Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, ed. by S. Fitzgerald Johnson. Oxford: OUP, 2012, 467-486.
Watts, E. City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Weiss Z., Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) שנה גרסה קודמת בעברית.
יוסף גייגר, אהלי יפת: חכמי יוון בארץ ישראל (ירושלים, יד יצחק בן צבי, 2012).
ירון דן, חיי העיר בארץ ישראל בשלהי העת העתיקה (ירושלים, יד בן צבי, 1984).
Additional Reading Material:
NO
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 20 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 60 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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