Uses and Misuses of Ancient Mediterranean Sources

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the use and manipulation of ancient textual sources from different settings across the ancient Mediterranean as a key to understanding the dissemination of religious and mythological knowledge in different historical contexts. In a series of case studies focusing on texts and artifacts from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece, and Rome, and their ancient as well as modern reuse, this volume displays multiple approaches to and perspectives on strategies of incorporation of derivative materials in antiquity and beyond. Contributors: Ilaria Andolfi, Heike Behlmer, Francesca Boldrer, Laura Carlson Hasler, Michael Chen, Silvia Gabrieli, Szilvia Jáka-Sövegjártó, Gina Konstantopoulos, Chiara Meccariello, Tonio Mitto, So Miyagawa, Dustin Nash, Przemysaw Piwowarczyk, Jennifer Singletary, Georgios Vassiliades, Nereida Villagra, Mathias Winkler, David P. Wright, Marie Young, Carlos Gracia Zamacona

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studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore and at the University of Pisa, Italy; 2013 PhD in Classics; 2013-14 postdoctoral position at the Universities of Vienna, 2014-17 in Oxford; 2017-20 member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1136 "Education and Religion" at the Georg-August University of Göttingen; currently Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. PhD from Brown University; 2017-19 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Georg-August University of Göttingen in the Collaborative Research Centre 1136; Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Montana and Wofford College; 2017 Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible from the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University; 2018 Regional Scholar Award from the Society of Biblical Literature; currently Assistant Research Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.