Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion /

Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion / / ed. by Clifford Ando, Jörg Rüpke.

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The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
HerausgeberIn:
Ando, Clifford,
Rüpke, Jörg,
MitwirkendeR:
Begemann, Elisabeth,
Dohrmann, Natalie B.,
Eidinow, Esther,
El Shamsy, Ahmed,
Evans Grubbs, Judith,
Harris, Edward M.,
Hezser, Catherine,
Lanni, Adriaan,
Maier, Harry O.,
Raja, Rubina,
Van Andringa, William,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten , 65
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Physical Description:1 online resource (255 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Family, the Community and Murder: The Role of Pollution in Athenian Homicide Law
  • 2. Public and Private in Classical Athenian Legal Enforcement
  • 3. φανερὰν ποιήσει τὴν αὑτοῦ διάνοιαν τοῖς θεοῖς: Some Ancient Greek Theories of (Divine and Mortal) Mind
  • 4. Ista tua pulchra libertas: The Construction of a Private Cult of Liberty on the Palatine
  • 5. “M. Tullius … aedem Fortunae August (ae) solo et peq(unia) sua”
  • 6. Making the Private Public: Illegitimacy and Incest in Roman Law
  • 7. Public and Private in Emergent Christian Discourse
  • 8. Staging “private” religion in Roman “public” Palmyra. The role of the religious dining tickets (banqueting tesserae)
  • 9. Can “Law” Be Private? The Mixed Message of Rabbinic Oral Law
  • 10. Between Public and Private: The Significance of the Neutral Domain (Carmelit) in Late Antique Rabbinic Literature
  • 11. Shame, Sin, and Virtue: Islamic Notions of Privacy
  • Contributors
  • Index

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