Religions of late antiquity in practice

Princeton Readings in Religions

Introduction / Richard Valantasis

1. First Sahidic Life of Pachomius / James E. Goehring

2. Philostratus of Athens, Life of Apollonius of Tyana / Megan H. Williams

3. Porphyry, On the Life of Plotinus and the Order of His Books / Richard Valantasis

4. Evagrius Ponticus on Prayer and Anger / Columba Stewart

5. Pseudo-Athanasius, Discourse on Salvation to a Virgin / Teresa M. Shaw

6. Basil of Caesarea, The "Prooemium" of the Regulae jusius tractatae / Lawrence J. Altepeter

7. Sermons of Columbanus / Arthur G. Holder

8. Manichaean Asceticism / Jason David BeDuhn

9. Talmudic Texts and Jewish Social Life / Daniel Boyarin

10. Julian "the Apostate," Against the Galileans / Elizabeth Geraldine Burr

11. Thriving Native Cult in the Fifth Century and Its Demise under Coptic Monks / David Frankfurter

12. Cologne Mani Codex / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken

13. Tales of Holy Fools / Derek Krueger

14. Vision for the City: Nisibis in Ephrem's Hymns on Nicomedia / David Bundy

15. Acts of Thomas: Scene One / David G. Hunter

16. Anonymous Letter to a Woman Named Susanna / Maureen A. Tilley

17. Plea to a Local God for a Husband's Attentions / David Frankfurter

18. Bishop Avitus of Vienne to His Excellency Ansmundus / Maureen A. Tilley

19. Chrysostom's Catecheses: A Hermeneutic of Social Institutions / Arthur B. Shippee

20. John Chrysostom, Sermons on City Life / Blake Leyerle

21. Laws on Religion from the Theodosian and Justinianic Codes / Matthew C. Mirow and Kathleen A. Kelley

22. Acts of the Council of Aquileia (381 C.E.) / Kenneth B. Steinhauser

23. Canons of the Council in Trullo (692 C.E.) / James C. Skedros

24. Mithras Liturgy and Sepher Ha-Razim / Kimberly B. Stratton

25. Manichaean Ritual / Jason David BeDuhn

26. Seal of the Merkavah / Michael D. Swartz

27. Anonymous Spanish Correspondence; or the Letter of the "She-ass" / Virginia Burrus and Tracy Keefer

28. Amuletic Invocations of Christ for Health and Fortune / David Frankfurter

29. Hymns of Ambrose / Carl P. E. Springer

30. Hymns of Mary, the Mother of God, the Theotokos / Vasiliki Limberis

31. Manichaean Hymnody / Jason David BeDuhn

32. Isis Aretalogy from Kyme in Asia Minor, First Century B.C.E. / Gail Corrington Streete

33. Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity / Maureen A. Tilley

34. Martyrs of Lyons / Frederick W. Weidmann

35. Martyrdom of Habbib the Deacon / Robert Doran

36. 4 Maccabees / Clayton N. Jefford

37. Gregory Nazianzen, Homily on the Nativity of Christ / Nonna Verna Harrison

38. Texts on Iconoclasm: John of Damascus and the Council of Hiereia / David Vila

39. Asterius of Amasea Ekphrasis on the Holy Martyr Euphemia / Elizabeth A. Castelli

40. Christian Oracle Shrines / David Frankfurter

41. Popular Religious Practices in Fifth-Century Egypt / David Frankfurter

42. Zenith and Destruction of a Native Egyptian Oracle in 359 C.E. / David Frankfurter

43. Manichaean Theology / Jason David BeDuhn

44. Iamblichus, de Mysteriis, Book I, The de Mysteriis / Peter T. Struck.