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Does Smoke Mean Fire? Illumination, Incense, and the Senses in Late Antique Synagogues 烟意味着火吗?古代晚期犹太教堂的照明、熏香和感官

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0008

K. Stern

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Hagiographic History: Reading and Writing Holiness in the Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus 圣徒传记的历史:阅读和书写匿名塞西森努斯教会历史中的神圣性

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0005

Sean Tandy

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Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism by Caroline T. Schroeder (review) 《古埃及修道主义晚期的儿童与家庭》卡罗琳·t·施罗德著(书评)

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0014

A. Papaconstantinou

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A Bad Romance: Late Ancient Fantasy, Violence, and Christian Hagiography 一段糟糕的罗曼史：古代晚期的幻想、暴力和基督教圣训

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0003

J. Barry

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Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity by Maria E. Doerfler (review) 耶弗他的女儿，萨拉的儿子：古代晚期儿童之死，作者：玛丽亚·E·多夫勒（评论）

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0015

Blake Leyerle

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Orfitus: The Rise and Fall of an Urban Prefect of Rome 奥菲图斯:罗马城市长官的兴衰

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0006

W. Lewis

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Justinian und die Armee des frühen Byzanz by Clemens Koehn (review) 克莱门斯·科恩的《查士丁尼与拜占庭早期的军队》（综述）

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0016

C. Michel

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Hamstrung Horses: Dating Constantine's Departure from the Court of Galerius 牵绊的马：追溯君士坦丁离开伽勒里乌斯宫廷

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0001

Adrastos Omissi

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No Voice of Reason: Socrates of Constantinople's Adaptation of Athanasius of Alexandria as a Source for his Ecclesiastical History 没有理性的声音：君士坦丁堡的苏格拉底将亚历山大的亚他那修作为其教会史的来源

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0004

K. Dahm

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Historicizing Ontologies: Qur'ānic Preternatural Creatures between Ancient Topoi and Emerging Traditions 本体论的历史化：古代托派与新兴传统之间的《古兰经》前文化生物

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Journal of Late Antiquity Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/jla.2023.0007

V. Grasso

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