Classics

What we know as the Holy Land is not merely the biblical land. The contributions to this volume demonstrate how it - perhaps even more than through biblical texts - was created by extracanonical traditions of texts, rituals, and material culture.

In this critical edition, Jeremy R. Brown analyzes 105 manuscripts of Ethiopic Jonah, reconstructing five text types from the 14th to the 20th century. He demonstrates both the uniformity and the gradual revisions that shaped the transmission history of this biblical tradition.

Twenty-five essays - some newly published - by one of the leading voices in the study of early Greek theology. Ranging across Homer, Hesiod, and the lyric poets, Jenny Strauss Clay examines how the archaic Greeks thought about their gods, about the place of mortals in a world ordered by Zeus, and about the poet's authority to speak of either.

This study is the first to explore the striking intimacy of the early correspondence between Marcus Aurelius and his tutor Fronto (second century AD) as a literary production. Wytse Keulen presents Fronto's letter collection as a self-edited literary monument that brings his most important friendship to life with an emphasis on public appeal.