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Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 55–2012. Edited by Johannes Hahn and others. Pp. 188 + 8 black-and-white and colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff, 2014. €74. 978 3 402 10705 8; 0075 2541

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Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 55–2012. Edited by Johannes Hahn and others. Pp. 188 + 8 black-and-white and colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff, 2014. €74. 978 3 402 10705 8; 0075 2541

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2016

M. J. Edwards*
Affiliation:
Christ Church, Oxford
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As these essays show, the dissociation of Christianity from its pagan milieu was effected sometimes by the rejection, sometimes by the transformation of existing models. Johannes Hahn (‘Tausend Schrecken des Gesetze’) concludes that Coptic zealots of the fourth century were not instruments of imperial or ecclesiastical policy. Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic (‘Poésie et mythe dans le Contra Academicos’) finds the equivalent of a Platonic myth in Augustine's account of the primitive Academy, which (like his quotations of poetry) is designed to guide the reader from love of beauty to love of wisdom. Daniel Röthlisberger (‘Die capitis velatio’) observes that, in requiring men to pray with heads uncovered, Paul denies them the social status that was conferred on the pagan celebrant by his veil. All the examples of the formula pro voto suo collected by Ulrike Emig (‘Pro voto suo’) come from Christian sites. According to Elizabeth Panell (‘Entwicklung der Ikonographie’), the pagan iconography of marriage was first adopted by Christian artists in their depictions of the saints. Gerhard Steigerwald (‘Die edelsteingeschmückten Städte Jerusalem’) deciphers a mosaic in which the Jerusalem of this world is adorned with the sapphires that apocalyptic bestows on the heavenly city. Peter Grossman (‘Zur Entstehung des ḫūrus’) identifies the seventh century as the era in which a room was first set apart for the use of the clergy in the basilica. Rainer Warland (‘Byzanc und der Alemannia’) discovers a peculiar appropriation of pagan heroic imagery in a Gothic disc of similar date.