Self, Self-Fashioning and Individuality in Late Antiquity

Maren R. Niehoff (Herausgegeben von) is the Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.Joshua Levinson (Herausgegeben von) is Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• Maren R. Niehoff: Fashioning this VolumeConstructing the SelfDavid Lambert: "Desire" Enacted in the Wilderness: Problems in the History of the Self and Bible Translation - Matthew Roller: Selfhood, Exemplarity, and Cicero's Four Personae: On Constructing Your Self after Your Model and Your Model after Your Self - Margaret Graver: Interiority and Freedom in Seneca's De Beneficiis: Acts of Kindness and the Perfected Will - Gretchen Reydams-Schils: How to "Become Like God" and Remain Oneself - Karen King: Becoming Fully Human: Contours and Expressions of the Self according to The Gospel of Mary - Yair Furstenberg: Rabbinic Responses to Greco-Roman Ethics of Self-Formation in Tractate Avot - Charles Stang: The Doubled Self and the Worship of the Gods - Joshua Levinson: The Divided Subject: Representing Modes of Consciousness in Rabbinic Midrash - Laura Nasrallah: The Worshipping Self, the Self in Light - Edward Watts: The Senses, the Self, and the Christian Roman Imperial Subject: Hagia Sophia as a Space of Directed InterioritySelf-FashioningCatharine Edwards: The Epistolographic Self: The Role of the Individual in Seneca's Letters - Eve-Marie Becker: Paul's Epistolary Self in and around Philippians - Ilaria Ramelli: Autobiographical Self-Fashioning in Origen - Maren R. Niehoff: A Hybrid Self: Rabbi Abbahu in Legal Debates in Caesarea - Irmgard Männlein-Robert: Move Your Self: Mobility and Migration of Greek Intellectuals to Rome - Reuven Kiperwasser: Narrating the Self: Stories about Rabbi Zeira's Encounters in the Land of IsraelSelf and Individual in SocietyClifford Ando: Self, Society, Individual, and Person in Roman Law - Jörg Rüpke: Urban Selves: Individualisation in the Cities of the Roman Empire - Sarit Kattan Gribetz: Constructions of the Self through Time: Gender, Text, Embodiment, Experience - Mira Balberg: The Subject Supposed to Forget: Rabbinic Formations of the Legal Self - Ishay Rosen-Zvi: Two Midrashic Selves: Between Origen and the Mekhilta - Alfons Fürst: Individuality and Self-Agency: The Self in Origen's Metaphysics of Freedom - Tobias Nicklas: Constructing Individual Selves within Social Hierarchies: The Letters of Copres and Synesios