Classics

In late antiquity, exile in various forms was one of the punishments of both Roman law and internal church discipline. Using numerous ancient sources, Florian Schwarz presents the different types of exile and their effects as well as specific individual fates.

Christian Hornung examines »spaces« in ancient Christianity. Against the background of the spatial turn , he analyzes literary descriptions of the ecclesiastical building complex (including the church, bishop's house, and annexes) as well as synods, monasticism and the so-called public space and interprets »spaces« as forms of ecclesiastical staging and representation.

Antioch on the Orontes is of great importance for the formation of Hellenistic Judaism in the Diaspora and the emergence of Christianity. This volume shows the factors that influenced the shape and development of both religious communities from different specialist perspectives and emphasizes the religious-historical significance of Antioch.

Justin J. White proposes to reconceptualize the relationship between image and text in ancient Israel. Characterizing both as mixed forms of media, White argues that texts evoked images as a core component of their rhetoric.