ers on the Road: Otherness, Identification and
Disguise in Rabbinic Travel Tales of Late Roman Palestine
Between the Bodily and the Holy
Ian Rutherford: Concord and Communitas:
Greek Elements in Philo’s Account of Jewish Pilgrimage – Laura Nasrallah: Imposing
Travelers. An Inscription from Galatia and
the Journeys of the Earliest Christians – Sarit
Kattan Gribetz: “Lead Me Forth in Peace”:
The Wayfarer’s Prayer and Rabbinic Rituals of
Travel in the Roman World – Georgia Frank:
Touching and Feeling in Late Antique Pilgrims’ Narratives
Next volume to be published:
Seeing the God: Image, Space,
Performance, and Vision in the Religion
of the Roman Empire
Edited by Marlis Arnhold, Harry O. Maier,
and Jörg Rüpke
2017
A new series from Mohr Siebeck:
Culture, Religion, and Politics
in the Greco-Roman World
(CRPGRW)
Edited by
Kendra Eshleman (Boston, MA)
Teresa Morgan (Oxford)
Laura Nasrallah (Harvard, MA)
Maren Niehoff (Jerusalem)
Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent)
Jesus’ Travels from Different Perspectives
Reinhard Feldmeier: The Wandering Jesus:
Luke’s “Travel Narrative” – Richard Kalmin:
Jesus’ Descent to the Underworld in the Babylonian Talmud and in Christian Literature of
the Roman East
Destination Rome
Daniel Schwartz: “Going up to Rome” in Jose­
phus’ Antiquities – Knut Backhaus: From
Disaster to Disclosure: The Shipwreck in the
Book of Acts in Light of Greco-Roman Ideology – Yonatan Moss: “From Syria all the Way
to Rome:” Ignatius of Antioch’s Pauline Journey to Christianity
2017. ISBN 978-3-16-155111-6
Mohr Siebeck
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info@mohr.de • www.mohr.de
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T
he series responds to an increasing awareness among scholars of the ancient Mediterranean world that phenomena of culture,
religion, and politics cannot be isolated, but
must instead be studied in relation to each other.
Moreover, since the work of the History of Religions School, it is clear that such phenomena
cross boundaries of languages, countries, and religions. To render a truly fruitful examination of
Greek literature in the Imperial period, the time
has come to acknowledge its deep entanglement
in Roman politics and to investigate parallels in
contemporaneous religious texts. Likewise, for
fresh insights to be gleaned, readings of early
Jewish or Christian texts ought to take into account relevant discourses in pagan literature,
philosophy and religion.
The new series, launched by an international
team of experts with a strong interdisciplinary
orientation, provides the necessary platform
for such pioneering research. It is one where
equal status will be granted to the different
religions and fields of discourse. Both Jewish
and Christian texts as well as those dealing with
Greek and Roman religion and philosophy will
share the same standing, with culture, politics,
and religion alike meeting on level ground. The
series also welcomes studies on other religions
and their connections in the Greco-Roman
world. Each volume in the series will strike its
own balance between these different factors.
Both monographs and collections of essays are
welcome.
Editors:
Professor Dr. Kendra Eshleman teaches Latin
and Greek at Boston College in Boston,
MA.
Professor Dr. Teresa Morgan teaches Greek and
Roman history from the 8th century BCE
to the 4th century CE at Oriel College in
Oxford.
Professor Dr. Laura Nasrallah teaches New
Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA.
Professor Dr. Maren Niehoff holds the Max
Cooper Chair of Jewish Thought at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Professor Dr. Peter Van Nuffelen is research
professor in Ancient History at Ghent University.
Manuscripts can be submitted to the editors and
the publisher.
ISSN: 2510-0785
Suggested citation: CRPGRW
First volume:
Journeys in the Roman East:
Imagined and Real
Edited by
Maren Niehoff
Table of Contents:
Maren Niehoff: Journeys on the Way to This
Volume
Real and Imagined Geography
Ewen Bowie: Eastern Mediterranean Travel:
The View from Aphrodisias and Hadrianoutherae – Janet Downie: The Romance of
Impe­rial Travel in Aelius Aristides’ Smyrna
Orations – Nicola Zwingmann: The Account
of a Journey in the Erôtes of [Pseudo-] Lucian
in the Context of Ancient Travel – Benjamin
Isaac: Virtual Journeys in the Roman Near
East: Maps and Geographical Texts – Amit
Gevaryahu: There and Back Again: A Journey
to Ashkelon and its Intertexts in Yerushalmi
Sanhedrin 4:6 (=Hagigah 2:2)
Reconstructing Encounters in Distant Places
Froma Zeitlin: Apodêmia: The Adventure of
Travel in the Greek Novel – Kendra Eshleman:
Eastern Travel in Apollonius and the Apocry­
phal Acts of Thomas – Maren Niehoff: Parodies of Educational Journeys in Josephus, Justin Martyr and Lucian – Jonathan Price: The
Historiographical Vehicle of Lucian’s Journey
in Verae Historiae – Catherine Hezser: Strang-