Beyond Conflicts

Born 1977; 2005 PhD in Ancient History; 2007-12 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Naples Federico II, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the "Michele Pellegrino" Foundation (University of Turin); currently Professor of History of Ancient Christianity and History of Religions at the University of Naples Federico II.

• IntroductionLuca Arcari: Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Cent. CEPart One: Use, (Re-)Invention and (Re-)Definition of Discursive PracticesTobias 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: Reflections on a Category, Physical Features, Purpose and Use - Paola Buzi: Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic TraditionPart Two: Ideological Debates as Images of Cultural and Religious CohabitationsBernard 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 InteractionsSofía 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. AlexandriaPart Four: "Open" and "Closed" GroupsMarie-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. EgyptPart Five: The Construction of Authority in Philosophical and Religious SchoolsCarmine 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