Supported by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Council of the Humanities
In writing about Sophronios of Jerusalem two ninth-century authors comment specifically on the patriarch’s literary style and correct beliefs. Both of those elements will be highlighted in this lecture. It will explore some of the unusual features of his rhetoric, which place him in the Asiatic, rather than the Attic, camp. It will also draw…
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Over the last few decades, early Islam has become increasingly ‘Late Antique’. In the fields of legal and religious history, recent research into early Islam has begun to draw new and exciting points of comparison and contrast between early Christian, Jewish (Rabbinic) and early Islamic law and legal practice. Deliberately taking early Islam as…
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the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Council of the Humanities the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies in celebration of their 35th Anniversary of Hellenic Studies at Princeton.Speaker
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Cosponsored by: Department of Art and Archaeology, Department of Classics, Department of History, Department of Religion, and Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund
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Cosponsored by: Department of Art and Archaeology, Department of Classics, Department of History, Department of Religion, and Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund