Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 706646 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Zellmann-Rohrer |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Zellmann-Rohrer |
| ASSINATURA | ZELLMANN-ROHRER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5200-8480 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A. Sartre-Fauriat & M. Sartre, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie. Tome XVI. Volume 3
Sphragizoēl
An inscribed object from late ancient Ephesos is re-interpreted as an amulet naming a previously unknown angel, Sphragizoēl. The combination of amulet and angel illustrates the coinage of functional angel names, in this case referencing sealing. Reversed writing produced by impressing the object may have served as an analogy for sealing enemies. The artefact would thus stand between textual amulets and curse tablets
Three Deluxe Horoscopes
Edition of three “deluxe” (or “elaborate”) horoscopes for births in the second and third centuries CE, one probably dated to the reign of Gallus. Each offers indirect reflections of astrological interpretation of the horoscopic data, including the classification of planets, zodiac signs, their parts, and of additional objects such as the cardinal points and paranatellonta. A checklist collects the other original horoscopes belonging to this type
Tobias Nowitzki
Stars and Systems
What moves the stars, and what do their movements mean for life on earth? As conventionally divided, even if the distinction of cognates was complicated already in antiquity, the answers to these questions belong respectively to astronomy and astrology. Graeco-Roman astrology generally dispensed with explanations of causes – perhaps because systems proposed by the likes of Aristotle, the topic of B. and C., were taken as given – to focus on descr…
The Coptic Martyrdom of Saint Chamoul. Together with the Edition of an Unpublished Fragment of a Homily (?) on the Birth of Christ
The Egyptian martyr St Chamoul (BHO vacat) is known chiefly through a Coptic Martyrdom in the hagiographical cycle of St Julius of Khebehs (Aqfahṣ). Three new fragments of the text of its sole witness, a papyrus codex of the 6th or 7th cent., are published here; more substantial remains (BL, Or MS Papyrus V) have long been known. After an introductory discussion of the codex and a synthesis of the available information on the martyr, a re-edition…
Greek Horoscope from the Reign of Augustus
Original horoscopes on papyrus. Supplement to S. Heilen's checklist of Greek horoscopes (2015); 11 documents are briefly described. - A new horoscope: the earliest personalized Greek natal horoscope on papyus? P. Duke. inv. 912 (unknown provenance, after 25 November 12 BCE). Text, translation and commentary
In the Bosoms of Abraham
First edition of a Christian epitaph in Greek of a woman, Timothea, brought by Henry J. Anderson to the United States in 1848 and now in the Brooklyn Museum. Analysis of the form and text of the monument allows its epigraphic context to be reconstructed, as part of a dispersed funerary assemblage of northern Nubia, including a distinctive textual formula wishing the deceased repose in the “bosoms of Abraham
Releasing Everything Bound in the Knot
Re-interpretation of a Coptic magical text on paper from Saqqara in light of parallels from earlier Egyptian as well as medieval Greek, Latin, and Syriac ritual texts: the central motif, which refers to wind, wave, and snakes, is applied to the cure of impotence, conceived as the releasing of ritual binding
A New Fragment for Peshitta Cod. 8 (Pusey-Gwilliam) and the Syriac Tradition of Mark
Publication of a Syriac parchment codex fragment kept in the papyrus collection of the National Library of Austria (P. Vind. Syr. 5), which belongs to a gospel manuscript once in the “Syrian” monastery of Wadi el-Natrun, the rest of which is now in London (British Library, Add. MS 17114). The potential contribution of the reconstituted codex, which was adduced as cod. 8 in the edition of Pusey and Gwilliam, to the criticism of the text of the Syr…
Further useful Psalms
An additional witness to the Byzantine tradition of application of Psalms for amuletic and other ritual purposes, conventionally termed “magical”, in a fifteenth-century codex on medicine and the occult sciences (Bologna, BU Ms. 3632), is edited and translated, and its place in the tradition is considered. Combined with another, indirect witness, references to analogous uses of the Psalms by Theodore Balsamon and Matthew Blastares, this evidence …
‘Goat Beautiful of Voice’
This zuta provides an edition of a new copy of a known piyyut by Abraham ibn Ezra, ‘Goat beautiful of voice’ ( יַעְלָה יְפַת קוֹל ), with translation, full collation, and commentary. This copy, now in the collection of the University of Michigan (P.Mich. inv. 531), offers some valuable new readings as well as evidence for the readership of Ibn Ezra in a provincial setting in medieval Egypt, as its provenance can be traced to the city of Medinet e…
Hippocratic Diagnosis, Solomonic Therapy, Roman Amulets
Two contrasting portraits of exorcism in the Roman period for patients with symptoms consistent with epilepsy, drawn by Josephus ( A.J. 8.45–47) and Lucian ( Philops. §16), illustrate a substantial albeit contested diffusion of that ancient technique from the Jewish tradition to a wider Mediterranean public. The process is reflected in a similarly complex traditional background and textual composition of a group of inscribed Greek amulets for epi…
Something borrowed, something new? Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of Palestine and Arabia
This article considers Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of the southern Levant, roughly corresponding to the Roman provinces of Judaea–Palaestina and Arabia, through three case studies entailing Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic as source languages. The texts are a bilingual Hebrew–Greek ossuary inscription from a burial cave in Jerusalem; a Greek mosaic inscription from the cathedral church of Madaba; and a bilingual Greek–O…
"A seal of Solomon son of Azariah, "son of the exilarch of all Israel
Publication of a seal of rock crystal in London (British Museum), with an inscription in Aramaic and Hebrew naming the bearer, one Solomon b. Azariah, as grandson (or perhaps son) of an exilarch. An identification of the bearer as Solomon, son of the Jewish exilarch Azariah b. Solomon (c. 975) and grandson of the exilarch Solomon b. Josiah (c. 951-3), is considered, as is the alternative possibility that the grandfather was the exilarch Solomon b…
More on the Tradition of Amulet Pattern-Booksin Post-Ancient Copies
Publication of a papyrus sheet from Egypt of the Byzantine or Islamic period, bearing a complex assemblage of ritual designs and Greek text. Through an analysis of this assemblage into its constituents, an interpretation is proposed for the context of its composition, namely continued interest in this later period in the earlier tradition of Greek amulets. Specifically, the compiler may have consulted formularies for, or direct copies of, multipl…
Lawsuits with Headless Foes
This study proposes a new interpretation of the texts of two late ancient or early Byzantine papyrus amulets that refer to conflict with “headless” entities ( PGM P 5a–b). Based on the identification of parallels in the Byzantine and later Greek tradition, a traditional incantation motif can be identified, targeting fever, which is analogized as a judicial crisis. An appendix publishes or republishes the relevant texts with translations. The comp…
The Woman Who Gave Her Breast For Hire. Notes on a Christian Wall-Painting from Tebtunis
This article gives a new reading and interpretation of a Coptic legend accompanying a wall-painting in a medieval church at Tebtunis, first published by C. C. Walters in this journal in 1989. Among depictions of the punishment of various sinners, the figure of a woman whose breasts are attacked by snakes can be connected with a belief in the sinfulness of wet-nursing, which is paralleled in Byzantine, Zoroastrian, and Mandaean contexts. Such scru…
An Inscribed Sherd in Aramaic Script from Barikot, Pakistan
This article discusses a sherd inscribed with a text in Aramaic script from Barikot in Pakistan. The site, known in classical sources on Alexander the Great, has been regularly investigated over the last 40 years. In recent excavation campaigns, new evidence of the earliest phases of the city (500–50 b.c.e.) has been discovered, including the sherd treated here, among other inscribed pottery in Greek and Brāhmī
A Syriac-Arabic Dream-Request and Its Jewish Tradition
The present article seeks to establish the text and interpretation of a fragment of an early modern Syriac text whose content belongs to the genre of what is conventionally termed magic.1 The fragment has survived in the binding of a later codex. The text, of which an edition with translation and commentary follows this introduction, is a guide for a procedure to summon up a mantic dream. The instructions are in Syriac (both language and script),…
A Pearl of Great Price? (P.Mich. inv. 4086)
Jean-Baptiste Yon & Julien Aliquot, Inscriptions grecques et latines du Musée national de Beyrouth
The National Museum of Lebanon at Beirut was inaugurated in 1942, but the formation of its collections dates back to the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. It closed during the war years of 1975-1991, and did not fully reopen until 1999 after extensive restorations. Both the inauguration, attended by “[t]outes les personnalités de Beyrouth et du Liban qui se préoccupent des choses de l’esprit”, and the reconstruction have been justifiably p…
Seth on Mount Sinai
Edition of an unpublished Coptic magical papyrus with formulae for prayers and an amulet for divine protection and assistance. The first of the prayers bears witness to the adaptation of Jewish post-biblical lore for Coptic magic, via the intermediary of Greek translation. The papyrus, probably to be dated to the fifth or sixth century CE, was found in excavations at Lisht
An Inscribed Sherd in Aramaic Script from Barikot, Pakistan
This article discusses a sherd inscribed with a text in Aramaic script from Barikot in Pakistan. The site, known in classical sources on Alexander the Great, has been regularly investigated over the last 40 years. In recent excavation campaigns, new evidence of the earliest phases of the city (500–50 b.c.e.) has been discovered, including the sherd treated here, among other inscribed pottery in Greek and Brāhmī
A Pearl of Great Price? (P.Mich. inv. 4086)
Jean-Baptiste Yon & Julien Aliquot, Inscriptions grecques et latines du Musée national de Beyrouth
The National Museum of Lebanon at Beirut was inaugurated in 1942, but the formation of its collections dates back to the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. It closed during the war years of 1975-1991, and did not fully reopen until 1999 after extensive restorations. Both the inauguration, attended by “[t]outes les personnalités de Beyrouth et du Liban qui se préoccupent des choses de l’esprit”, and the reconstruction have been justifiably p…
Seth on Mount Sinai
Edition of an unpublished Coptic magical papyrus with formulae for prayers and an amulet for divine protection and assistance. The first of the prayers bears witness to the adaptation of Jewish post-biblical lore for Coptic magic, via the intermediary of Greek translation. The papyrus, probably to be dated to the fifth or sixth century CE, was found in excavations at Lisht
The Woman Who Gave Her Breast For Hire. Notes on a Christian Wall-Painting from Tebtunis
This article gives a new reading and interpretation of a Coptic legend accompanying a wall-painting in a medieval church at Tebtunis, first published by C. C. Walters in this journal in 1989. Among depictions of the punishment of various sinners, the figure of a woman whose breasts are attacked by snakes can be connected with a belief in the sinfulness of wet-nursing, which is paralleled in Byzantine, Zoroastrian, and Mandaean contexts. Such scru…
An Inscribed Sherd in Aramaic Script from Barikot, Pakistan
This article discusses a sherd inscribed with a text in Aramaic script from Barikot in Pakistan. The site, known in classical sources on Alexander the Great, has been regularly investigated over the last 40 years. In recent excavation campaigns, new evidence of the earliest phases of the city (500–50 b.c.e.) has been discovered, including the sherd treated here, among other inscribed pottery in Greek and Brāhmī
A Syriac-Arabic Dream-Request and Its Jewish Tradition
The present article seeks to establish the text and interpretation of a fragment of an early modern Syriac text whose content belongs to the genre of what is conventionally termed magic.1 The fragment has survived in the binding of a later codex. The text, of which an edition with translation and commentary follows this introduction, is a guide for a procedure to summon up a mantic dream. The instructions are in Syriac (both language and script),…
More on the Tradition of Amulet Pattern-Booksin Post-Ancient Copies
Publication of a papyrus sheet from Egypt of the Byzantine or Islamic period, bearing a complex assemblage of ritual designs and Greek text. Through an analysis of this assemblage into its constituents, an interpretation is proposed for the context of its composition, namely continued interest in this later period in the earlier tradition of Greek amulets. Specifically, the compiler may have consulted formularies for, or direct copies of, multipl…
Lawsuits with Headless Foes
This study proposes a new interpretation of the texts of two late ancient or early Byzantine papyrus amulets that refer to conflict with “headless” entities ( PGM P 5a–b). Based on the identification of parallels in the Byzantine and later Greek tradition, a traditional incantation motif can be identified, targeting fever, which is analogized as a judicial crisis. An appendix publishes or republishes the relevant texts with translations. The comp…
‘Goat Beautiful of Voice’
This zuta provides an edition of a new copy of a known piyyut by Abraham ibn Ezra, ‘Goat beautiful of voice’ ( יַעְלָה יְפַת קוֹל ), with translation, full collation, and commentary. This copy, now in the collection of the University of Michigan (P.Mich. inv. 531), offers some valuable new readings as well as evidence for the readership of Ibn Ezra in a provincial setting in medieval Egypt, as its provenance can be traced to the city of Medinet e…
Hippocratic Diagnosis, Solomonic Therapy, Roman Amulets
Two contrasting portraits of exorcism in the Roman period for patients with symptoms consistent with epilepsy, drawn by Josephus ( A.J. 8.45–47) and Lucian ( Philops. §16), illustrate a substantial albeit contested diffusion of that ancient technique from the Jewish tradition to a wider Mediterranean public. The process is reflected in a similarly complex traditional background and textual composition of a group of inscribed Greek amulets for epi…
Something borrowed, something new? Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of Palestine and Arabia
This article considers Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of the southern Levant, roughly corresponding to the Roman provinces of Judaea–Palaestina and Arabia, through three case studies entailing Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic as source languages. The texts are a bilingual Hebrew–Greek ossuary inscription from a burial cave in Jerusalem; a Greek mosaic inscription from the cathedral church of Madaba; and a bilingual Greek–O…
"A seal of Solomon son of Azariah, "son of the exilarch of all Israel
Publication of a seal of rock crystal in London (British Museum), with an inscription in Aramaic and Hebrew naming the bearer, one Solomon b. Azariah, as grandson (or perhaps son) of an exilarch. An identification of the bearer as Solomon, son of the Jewish exilarch Azariah b. Solomon (c. 975) and grandson of the exilarch Solomon b. Josiah (c. 951-3), is considered, as is the alternative possibility that the grandfather was the exilarch Solomon b…
Releasing Everything Bound in the Knot
Re-interpretation of a Coptic magical text on paper from Saqqara in light of parallels from earlier Egyptian as well as medieval Greek, Latin, and Syriac ritual texts: the central motif, which refers to wind, wave, and snakes, is applied to the cure of impotence, conceived as the releasing of ritual binding
A New Fragment for Peshitta Cod. 8 (Pusey-Gwilliam) and the Syriac Tradition of Mark
Publication of a Syriac parchment codex fragment kept in the papyrus collection of the National Library of Austria (P. Vind. Syr. 5), which belongs to a gospel manuscript once in the “Syrian” monastery of Wadi el-Natrun, the rest of which is now in London (British Library, Add. MS 17114). The potential contribution of the reconstituted codex, which was adduced as cod. 8 in the edition of Pusey and Gwilliam, to the criticism of the text of the Syr…
Further useful Psalms
An additional witness to the Byzantine tradition of application of Psalms for amuletic and other ritual purposes, conventionally termed “magical”, in a fifteenth-century codex on medicine and the occult sciences (Bologna, BU Ms. 3632), is edited and translated, and its place in the tradition is considered. Combined with another, indirect witness, references to analogous uses of the Psalms by Theodore Balsamon and Matthew Blastares, this evidence …
The Coptic Martyrdom of Saint Chamoul. Together with the Edition of an Unpublished Fragment of a Homily (?) on the Birth of Christ
The Egyptian martyr St Chamoul (BHO vacat) is known chiefly through a Coptic Martyrdom in the hagiographical cycle of St Julius of Khebehs (Aqfahṣ). Three new fragments of the text of its sole witness, a papyrus codex of the 6th or 7th cent., are published here; more substantial remains (BL, Or MS Papyrus V) have long been known. After an introductory discussion of the codex and a synthesis of the available information on the martyr, a re-edition…
Greek Horoscope from the Reign of Augustus
Original horoscopes on papyrus. Supplement to S. Heilen's checklist of Greek horoscopes (2015); 11 documents are briefly described. - A new horoscope: the earliest personalized Greek natal horoscope on papyus? P. Duke. inv. 912 (unknown provenance, after 25 November 12 BCE). Text, translation and commentary
In the Bosoms of Abraham
First edition of a Christian epitaph in Greek of a woman, Timothea, brought by Henry J. Anderson to the United States in 1848 and now in the Brooklyn Museum. Analysis of the form and text of the monument allows its epigraphic context to be reconstructed, as part of a dispersed funerary assemblage of northern Nubia, including a distinctive textual formula wishing the deceased repose in the “bosoms of Abraham
Sphragizoēl
An inscribed object from late ancient Ephesos is re-interpreted as an amulet naming a previously unknown angel, Sphragizoēl. The combination of amulet and angel illustrates the coinage of functional angel names, in this case referencing sealing. Reversed writing produced by impressing the object may have served as an analogy for sealing enemies. The artefact would thus stand between textual amulets and curse tablets
Three Deluxe Horoscopes
Edition of three “deluxe” (or “elaborate”) horoscopes for births in the second and third centuries CE, one probably dated to the reign of Gallus. Each offers indirect reflections of astrological interpretation of the horoscopic data, including the classification of planets, zodiac signs, their parts, and of additional objects such as the cardinal points and paranatellonta. A checklist collects the other original horoscopes belonging to this type
Tobias Nowitzki
Stars and Systems
What moves the stars, and what do their movements mean for life on earth? As conventionally divided, even if the distinction of cognates was complicated already in antiquity, the answers to these questions belong respectively to astronomy and astrology. Graeco-Roman astrology generally dispensed with explanations of causes – perhaps because systems proposed by the likes of Aristotle, the topic of B. and C., were taken as given – to focus on descr…
A. Sartre-Fauriat & M. Sartre, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie. Tome XVI. Volume 3
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