נקודות זכות באוניברסיטה העברית: 2

תואר: בוגר

היחידה האקדמית שאחראית על הקורס: היסטוריה

סמסטר: סמסטר א'

שפת ההוראה: עברית

קמפוס: הר הצופים

מורה אחראי על הקורס (רכז): ד׳׳ר מתיאס שמידט

דוא"ל של המורה האחראי על הקורס: matthias.schmidt@mail.huji.ac.il

שעות קבלה של רכז הקורס: יום ג׳ 15:00 - 16:30

מורי הקורס:
ד"ר מתיאס שמידט

תאור כללי של הקורס:
ראו את האנגלית

מטרות הקורס:
ראו את האנגלית

תוצרי למידה :
בסיומו של קורס זה, סטודנטים יהיו מסוגלים:
ראו את האנגלית

דרישות נוכחות (%):
100

שיטת ההוראה בקורס: ראו את האנגלית

רשימת נושאים / תכנית הלימודים בקורס:
1. Introduction
1.1 Conceptional Elements, Definitions, Approaches, Questions
1.2. The Religious History of the Roman Empire
1.3 Simultaneity and Fluidity of Religious Activities in Public and Private Spaces

2. Roman Religion - Topics, Structure, Rituals and Politics
2.1 The Place of Religion - Religious Topography and Cult Sites in Rome
2.2 Characteristic Features of Roman Civic Religion - Law, Divination, Festivals and Complex Rituals
2.3 The Framing of Religious Law: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Legibus II 7f.
2.4 Imperator Caesar Augustus - The Restructuring of the Religious and Political Systems by Gaius Octavius
2.5 Personal Religious Praxis in Rome - Augustus in Private: Suetonius, Divus Augustus 90-97
2.6 Private Rituals in the Roman Households

3. Politics and Religion - Selected Historical Case Studies
3.1 The Introduction of the Cult of Magna Mater (Cybele) in Republican Rome in 204 BCE
3.2 The Cult of Bacchus - A political and Social Scandal in 186 BCE
3.3 The Case of Cicero’s House on the Palatine in 57 BCE
3.4 Apollo Palatinus vs Egyptian Cults - Augustus and the Boundaries of Romanness in 28 BCE

4. Rome outside Rome
4.1 Exporting Roman Religion to the Empire
4.2 Religion as Public Administration: Lex Ursonensis (64-72; 125-128)
4.3 The Ruler Cult - Religious Legitimation of Political Power

4. Institutionalized Religious Options, Private Cult Associations and Threats for Law and Order
4.1 Christians between Criminal Law and Persecutions
4.2 The Mysteries of Mithras as an exclusively Male Association
4.3 The Egyptian Goddess Isis conquering the World
4.4 Magic and Superstition - Threats to the Roman Order and Security

5. Conclusion: The Roman Model as an antecedent of modern concepts for Freedom of Worship and Religion?

חומר חובה לקריאה:
הפרסומים הבאים נחשבים כחומר קריאה בסיסי וסקירה כללית על היביטים מרכזיים הקשורים לעניין. הם כולם מופיעים באתר ה-moodle של הקרוס. נדרשת רק היכרות בסיסית עם הטקסטים והחומרים האלה לפני תחילת הקורס. - על חומר חובה נוסף לקריאה יוחלט במהלך הסמינר - לפי התעניינות המשתתפים.ות - וכל החומר יפורסם במועד ב-moodle של הקורס - לפי התקדמות הדיון בסמינר.

The following list includes basically research publications and case studies on different subjects of Roman religion. These items will serve as a basis for discussion of the different topics during the seminar and are considered as a pool of “required reading” in the a broad sense. The actual “reading” required for the meetings scheduled throughout the seminar will be determined in relation to the specific topics of the course contents and will be posted in due course in the different topics of the moodle.page in chronological order according to the speed of our work capacity in the seminar.


11 . Specific Topics - Roman Religion
1. Specific Topics - Roman Religion
Clifford Ando, “Exporting Roman Religion”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 429-445.

Clifford Ando, Jörg Rüpke, “Introduction”, in: Clifford Ando, Jörg Rüpke (eds.), Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law., Berlin Munich Boston: deGruyter, 2015, pp. 1-9.

Richard A. Baumann, “The Suppression of the Bacchanals: Five Questions”, in: Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 39.3 (1990), pp. 334-348.

Mary Beard, “A City full of Gods”, in: idem, Pompeii. The Life of a Roman Town, London: Profile Books, 2008, pp. 276-308.

Mary Beard, “The Roman and the Foreign: The Cult of the ‘Great Mother’ in Imperial Rome”, in: Nicholas Thomas, Caroline Humphrey (eds.), Shamanis, History and the State, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996, pp. 164-190.

Elisabeth Begemann, “Ista tua pulchra libertas: The Construction of a Private Cult of Liberty on the Palatine”, in: Clifford Ando, Jörg Rüpke (eds.), Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law., Berlin Munich Boston: deGruyter, 2015, pp. 75-98.

Nicole Belayche, “Religious Actors in Daily Life: Practices and Related Beliefs”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 275-291.

Andreas Bendlin, “Religion at Rome”, in: Matt Gibbs, Milorad Nikolic, Pauline Ripat (eds.), Themes in Roman Society and Culture: an introduction to ancient Rome, Oxford, 2014, pp. 189-216.

Frank Bernstein, “Complex Rituals: Games and Processions in Republican Rome”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 222-234.

Per Bilde, “The Meaning of Roman Mithraism”, in: Jørgen Podemann Sørensen (ed.), Rethinking Religion: Studies in the Hellenistic Process, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1989, pp. 31-47.

Paul J. Burton, “The Summoning of the Magna Mater to Rome (205 B.C.)”, in: Historia. Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 45.1 (1996), pp. 36-63.

Aleš Chalupa, “How Did Roman Emperors Become Gods? Various Concepts of Imperial Apotheosis”, in: Anodos. Studies of the Ancient World 6-7/2006-2007, pp. 201-207.

John Ferguson, “Ruler Worship”, in: John Wacker (ed.), The Roman World, London - New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987, Vol. II, Chap. 32, pp. 766-784.

Richard Gordon, “Institutionalized Religious Options: Mithraism”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 392-405.

Erich S. Gruen, “The Advent of the Magna Mater”, in: idem, Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy, Leiden: Brill, 1990, pp. 5-33.

Erich S. Gruen, “The Bacchanalian Affair”, in: idem, Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy, Leiden: Brill, 1990, pp. 34-78.

Erich S. Gruen, “Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire. Did Judaism Test the Limits of Roman Tolerance?”, in: Jonathan J. Price, Margalit Finkelberg, Yuval Shahar (eds.), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations. New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 169-185.

Olivier Hekster, John Rich, “Octavian and the Thunderbolt: The Temple of Apollo Palatinus and Roman Traditions of Temple Building”, in: Classical Quarterly 56.1 (2006), pp. 149-168.

Marietta Horster, “Living on Religion: Professionals and Personnel”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 331-342.

Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann, “Religion in the House”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 188-201.

Sarah Limoges, “Expansionism or Fear: The Underlying Reasons for the Bacchanalia Affair of 186 B.C.”, in: Classical Studies 7 (2008), pp. 77-94.

Fernando Lozano, “Emperor Worship and Greek Leagues: The Organization of Supra-Civic Imperial Cult in the Roman East”, in: Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Fernandno Lozano Gómez (eds.), Empire and Religion Religious Change in Greek Cities under Roman Rule, Leiden Boston: Brill, 2017, pp 149-176.

Horst R. Moehring, “The Persecution of the Jews and the Adherents of the Isis Cult at Rome A.D. 19”, in: Novum Testamentum 4.3 (1959), pp. 293-304.

Britt-Mari Nässström, “The Baccahnalia. Development and Suppression”, in: Göran Aijmer (ed.), A Conciliation of Powers, Göteborg: Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg, 1992, pp. 110-118.

Aleksandra Nikoloska, “The Sea Voyage of Magna Mater to Rome”, in: Histria Antiqua 21 (2012), pp. 365-371.

Carlos F. Noreña, “The Social Economy of Pliny’s Correspondence with Trajan”, in: The American Journal of Philology 128.2 (Summer 2007), pp. 239-277,

John North, “Diviners and Divination at Rome”, in: Mary Beard, John North (eds.), Pagan Priests. Religion and Power in the Ancient World, Ithaca New York: Cornelll University Press, 1990, pp. 49-71.

John North, “The Religious History of the Roman Empire”, in: Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Religion, published online: 19 December 2017 (https://oxfordre.com/religion/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-114 ).

John North, “Religious Toleration in Republican Rome”, in: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. New Series 25 (205) (1979), pp. 85-103.

Eric Orlin, “Foreign Cults in Republican Rome: Rethinking the Pomerial Rule”, in:Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol 47 (2002), pp. 1-18.

Eric Orlin, “Octavian and Egyptian Cults: Redrawing the Boundaries of Romanness”, in: American Journal of Philogogy 129 (2008).

Eric Orlin, Art. “Religion: Public Religion, Roman Period”, in: Daniel M. Master (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology, London: Oxford University Press, 2013.

J.R. Patterson, “Survey Article. The City of Rome: from Republic to Empire” in: Journal of Roman Studies 82 (1992), pp. 186-215.
Rafaele Pettazoni, “State Religion and Individual Religion in the Religious History of Italy”, in: Raffaele Pettazzoni, in: idem, Essays on the History of Religion (Numen Book Series vol 1), Leiden: Brill, 1967, pp. 202-214.
Francisco Pina Polo, “Consuls and civic religion”, in: idem, The Consul at Rome. The Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 21-57.

J. Pollini, “Man or God: Divine Assimilation and Imitation in the Late Republic and Early Principate”, in: Kurt A. Raaflaub, Mark Toher (eds), Between Republic and Empire. Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate, Berkeley Los Angeles Oxford: University of California Press, 1990, pp. 334-357.

Beatrice Poletti, “‘Foreign’ Cults at Rome at the Turn of the Principate”, in: Acta Antiqua Academieae Scientiarum Hungaricae (Acta Ant. Hung) 58 (2018), pp. 549-569.

Simon R. F. Price, "The Place of Religion: Rome in the Early Empire", in: The Cambridge Ancient History (Second Edition), Volume X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C. - A. D. 69 (ed. by Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 812-847.

Éric Rebillard, Jörg Rüpke (eds.), Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015.

Jörg Rüpke, “Individual Appropriation of Religion”, in: idem., On Roman Religion. Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Townsend lectures, Ithaca London: Cornell University Press, 2016, pp. 8-25.

Jörg Rüpke, “Individual Decision and Social Order”, in: idem., On Roman Religion. Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Townsend lectures, Ithaca London: Cornell University Press, 2016, pp. 26-41.

Jörg Rüpke, “Priests”, in: Valentina Arena, Jonathan Prag (eds.), A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2022, pp. 274-284.

Jörg Rüpke, “Religion in the lex Ursonensis”, in: idem., From Jupiter to Christ: On the History of Religion in the Roman Imperial Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 113-136 (also in: Clifford Ando, Jörg Rüpke (eds.), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2006, pp. 34-46).

Jörg Rüpke, “Roman Religion”, in: Harriet I Flower (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, chap. 8, pp. 179-196.

Jörg Rüpke, “Superstitio: conceptions of religious deviance in Roman antiquity”, in: idem, Religious Deviance in the Roman World. Superstition or Individuality?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, chap. 1 - pp. 1-11.

Jörg Rüpke, “De superstitione: religious experiences best not had in temples”, in: idem, Religious Deviance in the Roman World. Superstition or Individuality?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, chap. 4 - pp. 45-64.

Jörg Rüpke, “The individual in a world of competing religious norms”, in: idem, Religious Deviance in the Roman World. Superstition or Individuality?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, chap. 6 - pp. 91-102.

Susan Satterfield, “Intention and Exoticism in Magna Mater’s Introduction into Rome”, in: Latomus 72.2 (2012, pp. 373-391.

John Scheid, “Augustus and Roman Religion: Continuity, Conservatism, and Innovation”, in: Karl Galinsky (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to The Age of Augustus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 175-193.

John Scheid, “Roman Theologies in the Roman Cities of Italy and the Provinces”, in: Jonathan J. Price, Margalit Finkelberg, Yuval Shahar (eds.), Rome: An Empoire of Many Nations. New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 116-134.

Francisco Marco Simón, “Religion and Rituals in Republican Rome”, in: Valentina Arena, Jonathan Prag (eds.), A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2022, pp. 455-469.

Sarolta A. Takács, “Politics and Religion in the Bacchanalian Affair of 186 BCE,” in: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000), pp. 301-310.

Caroline Tully, The Reception of the Cult of Isis in Rome from the Late Republic to the Flavian Dynasty (2008).

William Van Andringa, “‘M. Tullius … aedem Fortunae August(ae) solo et peg(unia) sua’ Private Foundation and Public Cult in a Roman Colony”, in: Clifford Ando, Jörg Rüpke (eds.), Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law, Berlin Munich Boston: deGruyter, 2015, pp. 99-114.

William Van Andringa, “Religions and the Integration of Cities in the Empire in the Second Century AD: The Creation of a Common Religious Language”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 83-95.

Peter G. Walsh, “Making a Drama out of a Crisis: Livy on the Bacchanalia”, in: Greece & Rome 43.2 (1996), pp. 188-203.

M.J. Versluys, “Isis Capitolina and the Egyptian Cults in Late Republican Rome”, in: Laurent Bricault (ed.), Isis en Occident. Actes du IIème Colloque international sur les études isiaques, Lyon III 16-17 mai 2002, Leiden Boston: Brill, 2004, pp. 421-448.

חומר לקריאה נוספת:
פרטי הביבליוגפריה הבאים נחשבים כ-״קריאה נוספת״. הרשימה כוללת ספרי מבוא לנושאים שונים וכלליים, פרסומים על נושאים מיוחדים, בעיות מחקר וגו׳. בנוסף, אפשר למצוא בה פרסומים על עניינים שונים הקשורים לקורס, אשר מפנים את המבט ואת המחשבה גם מעבר לדיון בקורס. יתכן שמספר פרקים מתוך הפרסומים ברשימה הזו יהפכו ל-״חומר חובה לקריאה״ במהלך הקורס ואז יפרסמו ב-moodle של הקורס במועד המתאים.

11. General Introductions/Compendia/Articles or Anthologies on Roman History and Religion
Clifford Ando, Jörg Rüpke (eds.), Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law., Berlin Munich Boston: deGruyter, 2015.

Mary Beard, SPQR. A History of Ancient Rome, London: Profile Books, 2015.

Mary Beard, John North (eds.), Pagan Priests. Religion and Power in the Ancient World, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price (eds.), Religions of Rome, Vol. I: A History; Vol. II: A Sourcebook, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Allen Brent, A Political History of Early Christianity, London New York: T&T Clark International, 2009.

Ken Dowden, Religion and the Romans, Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1992.

Walter Eder, “Augustus and the Power of Tradition: The Augustan Principate as Binding Link between Republic and Empire”, in: Kurt A. Raaflaub, Mark Toher (eds), Between Republic and Empire. Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate, Berkeley Los Angeles Oxford: University of California Press, 1990, 71-122.

Denis Feeney, “The History of Roman Religion in Roman Historiography”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 129-142.

John Ferguson, The Religions of the Roman Empire, London: Thames and Hudson, 1970 (reprinted 1982).

Karl Galinsky, “Continuity and Change: Religion in the Augustan Semi-Century”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 71-82.

Peter Jones, Keith Sidwell, The World of Rome. An Introduction to Roman Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Andrew Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

Dwayne Meisner, Livy and the Bacchanalia, MA Thesis, published online:
https://www.academia.edu/3676241/Livy_and_the_Bacchanalia?email_work_card&eq;view-paper

Robert M. Ogilvie, The Romans and their Gods in the Age of Augustus, London: Chatto and Windus Ltd., 1969.

Eric Orlin, “Urban Religion in the Middle and Late Republic”, in: Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 58-70.

Jonathan J. Price, Margalit Finkelberg, Yuval Shahar (eds.), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations. New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Simon R. F. Price, Rituals and Power. The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

James R. Rives, Religion in the Roman Empire, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2013.

Nathan Rosenstein, Robert Morstein-Marx, A Companion to the Roman Republic, Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, 2006 (selected articles).

Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2007 (selected articles).

Jörg Rüpke, On Roman Religion. Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Townsend lectures, Ithaca London: Cornell University Press, 2016 (selected chapters).

Jörg Rüpke, Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 (selected chapters).

Jörg Rüpke, Religious Deviance in the Roman World. Superstition or Individuality?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

John Scheid, The Gods, the State, and the Individual. Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome, translated and with a foreword by Clifford Ando, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

Alexandra Sofroniew, Household Gods. Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome, Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015.

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, “Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution”, in: Thomas Habinek, Alessandro Schiesaro (eds.), The Roman Cultural Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 3-22.

2. On Freedom of Religion (modern)
Tawia Ansah, “A Terrible Purity: International Law, Morality, Religion, Exclusion”, in: Cornell International Law Journal 38.1 (2005), Article 2, pp. 9-63.

Mashood Baderin, “Religion and International Law: Friends or Foes?”. in: SSRN Electronic Journal January 2010 (online> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44208465 ).

Heiner Bielefeldt, Thiago Alves Pinto & Marie Juul Petersen, “Introduction: Freedom of Religion or Belief as a Human Right”, in: The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 20:2 (2022), pp. 1-12, DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2022.2065799 (online> https://doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2022.2065799).

John Bagnall Bury, A History of Freedom of Thought, Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2002 (reprint of the 1913 edition by Henry Holt and Company, The University Press).

Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Carla M. Zoethout (eds.), Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism, Leiden Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2023.

Nehal Bhuta (ed.), Freedom of Religion, Secularism, and Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

T. Jeremy Gunn, “The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of ‘Religion’ in International Law”, in: Harvard Human Rights Journal 16 (2013), pp. 189-215.

Mark Weston Janis, David Kennedy, Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Alberto R. Coll, Nicholas Grief , “Religion and International Law”, in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law) , APRIL 20-23, 1988, Vol. 82 (APRIL 20-23, 1988), pp. 195-220 .

Celia G. Kenny, “Law and the Art of Defining Religion”, in: Ecc. LJ 16 (2014), pp. 18-31.

Hans-Georg Zieberts, Ernst Hirsch Ballin (eds.), Freedom of Religion in the 21st Century: a human rights perspective on the relation between politics and religion, Leiden Boston: Brill, 2016.

מרכיבי הציון הסופי :
הגשת עבודה מסכמת / פרויקט גמר / מטלת סיכום / מבחן בית / רפרט % 90
השתתפות פעילה / עבודת צוות % 5
נוכחות / השתתפות בסיור % 5

מידע נוסף / הערות:
בקורס נלמד את המקורות והטקסטים בעזרת תרגומים לעברית או אנגלית. לא נדרש ידע בשפה היוונית או הלטינית.