Beyond Conflicts. Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Century CE

This book contains the proceedings of the International Conference "Beyond Conflicts. Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt, between the 1st and the 6th cent. CE", Naples September 17-19 2014, Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II, organized in the context of the FIRB - Future in Research Program 2012 directed by Luca Arcari on "The Construction of Space and Time in the Transmission of Collective Identities. Religious Polarizations and/or Cohabitations in Ancient World (1st-6th cent. CE)" (Project n. RBFR12R82W). Were there various ways of interaction between different groups and individuals in Graeco-Roman Egypt? This volume shows that Egypt emerges as a sort of exception in the study of ancient cultures and religions, providing scholars with the possibility of relying on a great number and variety of documents, and interactively explores the diversity of documentary material for the longue durée reconstruction of a very complex micro-system where different groups and individuals lived together. Index Introduction Luca Arcari: Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Cent. CE Part One: Use, (Re-)Invention and (Re-)Denition of Discursive Practices Tobias Nicklas: Jewish, Christian, Greek? The Apocalypse of Peter as a Witness of Early 2nd- Cent. Christianity in Alexandria – Philippe Matthey: The Once and Future King of Egypt: Egyptian »Messianism« and the Construction of the Alexander Romance – Antonio Sena: Demonology between Celsus and Origen: A Theoretical Model of Religious Cohabitation? – Daniele Tripaldi: »Basilides« and »the Egyptian Wisdom:« Some Remarks on a Peculiar Heresiological Notice (Ps.-Hipp. Haer. 7.20–27) – Thomas J. Kraus: Demosthenes and (Late) Ancient Miniature Books from Egypt: Reections on a Category, Physical Features, Purpose and Use – Paola Buzi: Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic Tradition Part Two: Ideological Debates as Images of Cultural and Religious Cohabitations Bernard Pouderon: »Jewish,« »Christian« and »Gnostic« Groups in Alexandria during the 2nd Cent.: Between Approval and Expulsion – Adele Monaci Castagno: Messengers from Heaven: Divine Men and God's Men in the Alexandrian Platonism (2nd–4th Cent.) – Mark J. Edwards: Late Antique Alexandria and the »Orient« – Ewa Wipszycka: How Insurmountable was the Chasm between Monophysites and Chalcedonians? – Philippe Blaudeau: « Vel si non tibi communicamus, tamen amamus te ». Remarques sur la description par Liberatus de Carthage des rapports entre Miaphysites et Chalcédoniens à Alexandrie (milieu Ve–milieu VIe s.) Part Three: Cults and Practices as Spaces for Encounters and Interactions Sofía Torallas Tovar: Love and Hate? Again on Dionysos in the Eyes of the Alexandrian Jews – Francesco Massa: Devotees of Serapis and Christ? A Literary Representation of Religious Cohabitations in the 4th Century – Mariangela Monaca: Between Cyril and Isis: Some Remarks on the Iatromantic Cults in 5th-Cent. Alexandria Part Four: »Open« and »Closed« Groups Marie-Françoise Baslez: Open-air Festivals and Cultural Cohabitation in Late Hellenistic Alexandria – Livia Capponi: The Common Roots of Egyptians and Jews: Life and Meaning of an Ancient Stereotype – Hugo Lundhaug: The Nag Hammadi Codices in the Complex World of 4th- and 5th-Cent. Egypt Part Five: The Construction of Authority in Philosophical and Religious Schools Carmine Pisano: Moses »Prophet« of God in the Works of Philo, or How to Use Otherness to Construct Selfness – Giulia Sfameni Gasparro: Alexandria in the Mirror of Origen's didaskaleion: Between the Great Church, Heretics and Philosophers – Marco Rizzi: Cultural and Religious Exchanges in Alexandria: The Transformation of Philosopy and Exegesis in the 3rd Cent. in the Mirror of Origen.