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Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare (2024)
Book
Roy, K., & Charney, M. W. (Eds.). (2024). Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429437915

This handbook examines key aspects of the development of the global history of warfare and the changing patterns of warfare over time. Although scholarship has long eschewed a chronological narrative of the evolution of warfare that privileges the We... Read More about Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare.

Introduction: The Evolution of Warfare: Global Perspectives (2024)
Book Chapter
Roy, K., & Charney, M. W. (2024). Introduction: The Evolution of Warfare: Global Perspectives. In K. Roy, & M. W. Charney (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429437915-1

Warfare as organised violence can be traced back to the New Stone Age. In the words of historian Azar Gat, ‘For once humans had evolved agriculture, they set in train a continuous chain of developments that have taken them further and further away fr... Read More about Introduction: The Evolution of Warfare: Global Perspectives.

Zoroastrian Conversations: Prof. Vevaina welcomes Mariano Errichiello (2024)
Digital Artefact
Errichiello, M. (2024). Zoroastrian Conversations: Prof. Vevaina welcomes Mariano Errichiello. [YouTube]

Zoroastrian Conversations’ is envisioned to be a Charlie Rose-style interview show that would feature Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (Bahari Associate Professor of Sasanian Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford) interviewing... Read More about Zoroastrian Conversations: Prof. Vevaina welcomes Mariano Errichiello.

The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (2024)
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Hezser, C. (Ed.). (2024). The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974

This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (third to seventh century C.E.), providing cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological app... Read More about The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity.

Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (1-11). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-1

By focusing on Jews and Judaism in late antiquity, this Handbook fills a gap left by other volumes that deal with early Byzantine Christianity only. Jews interacted and competed with pagans and Christians and experienced a number of significant devel... Read More about Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity.

Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (171-184). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-14

Late antique rabbis presented themselves as a particularly Jewish type of ancient intellectuals, also represented by Graeco-Roman philosophers, rhetoricians, sophists, and church fathers. Like other scholars, they studied, preserved, developed, and a... Read More about Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual.

Attitudes Torward the Body (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Attitudes Torward the Body. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (216-228). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-17

Jewish attitudes toward the human body differed significantly from Christian attitudes in late antiquity. In contrast to the Christian emphasis on the soul and its survival after death, rabbis insisted that body and soul constituted an inseparable un... Read More about Attitudes Torward the Body.

Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (263-274). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-21

Late antiquity saw the creation of large compilations of centuries of traditional knowledge in Jewish as well as in Roman and Byzantine Christian society. The compilations were meant to preserve knowledge that had gained specific significance in the... Read More about Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies.