Todd Klutz examines the main issues in scholarship on the Testament of Solomon, for instance, the Testament's textual identity and its tradition history. By approaching them in the light of new thinking about 'magic' and the structure of texts, he sheds light on the motivations behind its final redaction and the sorts of discourses to which its composition may have been a response. Klutz also argues that the Colbert manuscript ('P') is unparalleled in value for providing clues to the Testament's literary sources and tradition history. Focusing special attention on the structure and dominant motifs of 'P', he identifies a previously unnoticed scheme of astrological motifs. Most notably, Klutz argues that the final stage of the text's editing included the composition of chapters 19-26, whose existence as part of the larger Testament is presupposed in an early (i.e. second or third c. CE) source found in the Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila, and whose primary aim is to undermine the contemporaneous reputation of Solomon as the origin of a powerful tradition of magico-religious health care.

Rewriting the Testament of Solomon: Tradition, Conflict and Identity in a Late Antique Pseudepigraphon (Library of Second Temple Studies)

History

Klutz, Todd

Ancient Civilizations

Continuum International Pub.

In presenting a selection of twenty-eight texts in translation with introductory essays, Vincent L. Wimbush and his co-authors have produced the first book on asceticism that does full justice to the varieties of ascetic behavior in the Greco-Roman world. The texts, representative of different religious cults, philosophical schools, and geographical locations, are organized by literary genre into five parts that give a fascinating overview of the ascetic tradition.

Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity)

Wimbush, Vincent

Twelve dimensions of human emotion and behavior revealed through the ancient gods, such as Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Artemis, Athena, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Demeter, Hestia, and Hermes.

The Olympians: Ancient Deities As Archetypes

Unlike most textbooks on heritage which discuss the creation of heritage as a cultural phenomenon or offer practical guides to heritage practices, Archaeology and Heritage takes a fresh approach by providing an introduction to themes in the field of heritage as it relates to the material legacy of our past. A survey of current approaches to theorizing archaeological practice presents some ideas about how we understand and relate to the remains, sites, structures and buildings that have come to our present from the past.The book is divided into seven chapters, each preceded by a short interlude which considers the types of literature and ways of talking about heritage which characterize that approach. For those not already acquainted with recent archaeological theory, the book provides a brief introduction to current trends. Each chapter is in turn divided into key points indicated by sub-headings, and these key points are reiterated at the end of each chapter and are followed by a list of suggested readings.

Archaeology and Heritage. An Introduction

Politics & Social Sciences

Carman, John

Archaeology

Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe (Studies in the Early History of Europe)

A collection of 21 specially commissioned papers which aims to provide an interdisciplinary study of the origins of Mercia, its culture and its relationship to the Church and other kingdoms, in the British Isles and on the Continent. With papers written by some of the most familiar names in Anglo-Saxon studies, this is a useful and authoritative collection. Contents include: The origins of Mercia ( Barbara Yorke ); Political Women in Mercia ( Pauline Stafford ); The Mercian church ( David Parsons ); Wales and Mercia ( T M Charles-Edwards ); Carolingian Contacts ( Janet L Nelson ); The archaeology of Mercia ( Martin Welch ); Mercia: Landscape and Environment ( Martin Welch ); The growth of market centres and towns ( Alan Vince ); Constructing iconographies ( Jane Hawkes ); Metalwork ( Leslie Webster ); military institutions ( Gareth Williams ); Mercia and Wessex ( Simon Keynes ). Includes an extensive bibliography.

Brown, Michelle P.

Farr, Carol

Europe

A collection of ten essays which address the problems of the origins and early development of Christianity. This book represents more that three decades of reasearch by Pearson, Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of Santa Barbara and Professor and Interim Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Emergence of the Christian Religion

Pearson, Birger A.

Americas

Privacy and Solitude: The Medieval Discovery of Personal Space

Most people in the middle ages shared communal living space and lived most of their lives publicly in the midst of other people. Slowly, however, the wealthy began to build parts of their houses that were private and where private activities, such as reading, could be enjoyed. This was a new development and differed from the solitude of the hermit and the silence of the monk. Diana Webb traces what this meant for men and women growing sense of individuality in this highly original book.

Webb, Diana

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