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That inscriptions are not only texts but also material objects of specific materiality and presence is one of the recent central insights of ancient epigraphy. This understanding is applied here for the first time systematically, across different regions and over an entire epoch, by examining the change in the inscriptions culture in late antiquity with a view of the Italian peninsula.

This study in cultural history addresses the value of past relations in Gallo-Roman and Italian discourses on social status in late antiquity. The volume examines how senatorial figures referred back to ancestors and ancient times to better position themselves in relation to their peers. At a broader level, it describes the negotiative processes surrounding the establishment of rank.

Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I: Wisdom and Gods as the Foundation of Morality in Ancient World -- JAN DIETRICH: Wisdom in the Cultures of the Ancient World: A General Introduction and Comparison -- JAN ASSMANN: Tugenden und Pflichten nach altägyptischen Morallehren -- II: Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Texts -- YORAM COHEN: Why "Wisdom"? Copying, Studying, and Collecting Wisdom Literature in the Cuneiform World -- ALAN LENZI: "Counsels of Wisdom" as "White-Collar" Wisdom in First Millennium Ancient Mesopotamia -- HERBERT NIEHR: Weisheit in den Königsepen aus Ugarit -- III: Comparative Studies of Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Texts -- NOGA AYALI-DARSHAN: "Do not Open your Heart to Your Wife or Servant" (Khasheshonqy 13:17): A West-Asiatic Antecedent and its Relation to Later Wisdom Instructions -- DANIEL BODI: Two Animal Proverbs in Ahiqar and in Aesop on Human Relationships: Mercilessness and Sharing -- ENRIQUE JIMÉNEZ: An Almost Irresistible Target: Parodying the Theodicy in Babylonian Literature -- IV: Moral Teaching in the Book of Job -- EDWARD L. GREENSTEIN: Proverbs and Popular Sayings, Real or Invented, in the Book of Job -- DOMINICK S. HERNÁNDEZ: The Expression of Moral Judgments through Imagery in Job and Ancient Near Eastern Literature -- LUDGER SCHWIENHORST-SCHÖNBERGER: "Jetzt aber hat mein Auge dich geschaut" (Ijob 42,5): Gibt es im Ijobbuch eine Lösung des Problems auf der Ebene des Bewusstseins? -- V: Questions of Theodicy in the Ancient Near Eastern World -- ALEXANDRA VON LIEVEN: "Ich habe nicht befohlen, dass sie Unrecht tun": Das Theodizee-Problem im Alten Ägypten -- THOMAS KRÜGER: Morality and Religion in Three Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers -- T.M. OSHIMA: When the Godless Thrives and a Wolf Grows Fat: Explaining the Prosperity of the Impious in Ancient Mesopotamian Wisdom Texts.

What is the role of religious aspects in legitimizing or delegitimizing violence? The articles of this volume provide an important contribution to this crucial social and scholarly debate. Analysing a broad spectrum of case studies from antiquity, they focus on religious justifications or evaluations of recommended, performed, or forbidden acts of violence - regardless of the question of their historicity. Not only late antiquity and Christianity are considered, but also pre-Christian Greek and Roman civilizations, Judaism, literary myth, and atheism. The case studies cover the period from the fifth century BCE to the fifth century CE and a broad geographical scope extending from Gaul to Israel and Egypt. This volume offers new insights into a highly topical issue

This volume contains twelve contributions on the urban development of the Near East and North Africa in Late Antiquity. On the one hand the authors consider historical and cultural aspects of the region. A comprehensive section of illustrations of new archaeological material and its interpretation then form the second focus of this volume of papers.

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Einführung -- 2. Ökonomie historisch fundierter Kommunikation im weströmischen Kontext -- 3. Distinktion durch Geschichte bei Sidonius und seinem Kreis? -- 4. Vergangenes verhandeln im Umfeld des Ennodius -- 5. Ergebnisse -- Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis -- Indices

The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated to the Collaborative Research Center's main focus of research – that is, the materiality and presence of writing in non-typographic societies.