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• 28 fév 2021

  Call for papers - History

  Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam: History & Archaeology

  An international round table organized on May 4 and 5, 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) highlighted the interest for a collective work that will address the question of Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam. Les Presses de l’Ifpo launch a call for papers related to this theme.

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• 31 oct 2018

  Ariel

  Summer School - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Mapping Ancient Gods

  ERC Advanced Grant MAP project (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Interface between Religious Systems and Human Agency)

  The ERC Advanced Grant MAP project (Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Interface between Religious Systems and Human Agency; 741182; http://map-polytheisms.huma-num.fr1) works on the naming systems for the divine in the Greek and Western Semitic worlds, from 1000 BCE to 400 CE and views them as testimonies to the way in which divine powers are constructed, arranged and involved within ritual. The analysis deals both with the structural aspects of the religious systems and with their contextual appropriation by social participants. Considered to be elements of a complex language, the onomastic channels are related to the gods, therefore providing access to a mapping process of the divine, to its ways of representation and to the communication strategies between men and gods.Within this framework, the MAP Team proposes a Summer School in collaboration with the French Research Centre in Jerusalem (http://www.crfj.org) which covers the project’s themes and tools.

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• 31 oct 2013

  Edinburgh

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Meet the New Gods, Same as the Old Gods? Formulary, Ritual and Status in Hellenistic Ruler Cult

  Panel to be held at the Eighth Celtic Conference in Classics

  Despite recent and widespread interest in Greek hero and ruler cult, evaluating the processes that lead to the bestowal of cultic honours on Hellenistic sovereigns still remains a controversial matter. Political readings of such honours within the framework of contemporary international diplomacy and euergetic discourse have picked up on polarities widely discussed by previous bibliography, such as "dynastic vs. civic", "living vs. posthumous", etc. Yet the main focus is still limited to a "top-down" perspective, which leaves aside the fascinating dialectics between "private" and "public", or to perhaps phrase this more accurately, between "institutional" and "non-institutional" actors.

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• 27 jui 2011

  28 jui 2011

  Strasbourg

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  The Targums in light of Traditions of the Second Temple Period

  Ce colloque s’intéresse aux liens thématiques et théologiques qui unissent ou séparent la littérature targumique et les écrits du Second Temple. La question des sources revêt ici une importance certaine et soulève plusieurs questions délicates : sur quoi reposent les traditions targumiques ? Quel lien existe-t-il entre traditions orales et traditions écrites ? Quelle fut l’importance du beth midrash dans la création et la composition des traditions qui viendront former les grandes recensions targumiques ? Quel rôle ont pu jouer les traditions hénochiques, ou celles d’autres pseudépigraphes, dans la formation des écrits targumiques ? Finalement, en quoi les grandes familles actuelles de targums sont-elles redevables aux écrits parabibliques rédigés aux alentours de notre ère ?

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