shape the answer as well. I hope to break open some common assumptions in order to make space for a more careful understanding of what it meant to be Jewish in the city of Rome, in particular, but also in [...] of the events! The situation in the Hellenistic world and the interactions it allowed are therefore more complicated that we might expect – 2 Maccabees is a good example to keep in the back of our minds [...] the Romans between these two cults, (b) the Jews attempting to make their worship of Yahweh Sabaoth more accessible to Roman sensibilities, or (c) a reflection of actual syncretism? In the end, the answer

Archaeology". This subject has been chosen to reflect the conference's interdisciplinary approach but more to encourage participants to broaden their thematic context. Colleagues who wish to participate

been very productive: from 1940 to the present day we can count almost 7.000 publications concerning, more or less directly, the Egyptian cults. On average, one publication every three days! This, first [...] thanks to the paucity of the material at our disposal (as regards Republican Rome we do not possess more than four inscriptions and a dozen important literary sources): in particular we suffer from the [...] return of the large masses of Italic negotiatores present in Delos, destroyed in 88 B.C. Even more interesting is the fact that the cult practiced in the temple on the Capitolium bears the marks

Salamis, which suggests that the island was perceived as an independent entity from an early age. More importantly, a combination of literary and epigraphic sources show that the Athenians and Megarians [...] following questions: How were the Salaminian gods dealt with after the Athenian take-over, or more precisely, what position were they granted within the Athenian pantheon? And How was the Salaminian [...] largely on assumptions about the name Salaminioi and is not supported by independent evidence. A more constructive view was taken by Ferguson, who argued that the Salaminioi were not, in fact, immigrants

Labor für Archäobotanik der Universität zu Köln stellten fest, dass die damalige Rheinschlinge bei Moers-Asberg, der Essenberger Mäander, noch bis in die Spätantike bestand. Also haben die Römer das Kastell

Appellate Division, Second Department where he secured a decision awarding the return of the Tablet. More information on Fritz's extraordinary life may be found at a New York Times link provided in the

Καππαδοκίας, ̉Ασίας καὶ Βιθυνίας (1 Pt. 1,1) that is, every country in Asia Minor except those who are more directed towards the South: Lycia and Cilycia [25] . It is interesting to note that, as I have [...] According to the Book of the Watchers [34] (that is a Jewish pseudepigraphon, to be more precise, the second oldest book in the Enochic Corpus, it is commonly considered to be written around [...] regarding the tradition of the Deluge, the 1 st Peter (such as Jd. 6 and 2 Pt. 2,3-4) reflects a more ancient state of the Christian appropriation of this tradition, in which the emphasis seems to fall

Abstract Tombs are since the origins of appearance relevant and meaningful symbols for living more than for deceased. Every civilization assumed in different places and periods independently the same

time the latest burial was added, only a tiny space inside the chamber was left empty, allowing not more than one person to enter at a time. Still a set of used mid-3 rd century cooking pots found inside

Ein kurzer Film von Schweizer Paläoanthroplogen bei der Freilegung und Begutachtung frisch freipräparierter Beckenknochen von Australopithecus sediba in Südafrika. (01:53)