Beyond Conflicts

Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Century CE, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum /Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 103

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Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9783161551444
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: XIII, 460 S.
Format (T/L/B): 2.7 x 23.4 x 15.7 cm
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2017
Einband: kartoniertes Buch

Beschreibung

That there were various ways of interaction between different groups in Graeco-Roman Egypt cannot be doubted, as a number of more or less recent regional studies have further reinforced. And as is well-known, Egypt emerges as a sort of exception in the study of ancient cultures and religions because it provides scholars with the opportunity to draw on a great number and variety of documents. Exploring interactively the diversity of documentary material is the main aim of this book. In socio-cultural terms, such an analysis corroborates the image of Egypt as a pervasive cultural system where for many centuries different elites coagulated themselves around a number of standard modalities to produce "cultural" and "religious" micro-systems. This shows that people, even when different languages and textual practices survive, respond to specific modalities of cohabitation under the umbrella of this hegemonic cultural "field."

Autorenportrait

Born 1977; 2005 PhD in Ancient History; 2007-12 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Naples Federico II, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the "Michele Pellegrino" Foundation (University of Turin); currently Professor of History of Ancient Christianity and History of Religions at the University of Naples Federico II.