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Oxford University Press, 2021
Oxford University Press, 2020
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 191; Leiden: Brill, 2019
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 75; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018
Edited by Michael Blömer and Benedikt Eckhardt (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 72; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018)
Edited by Hans Beck, Benedikt Eckhardt, Christoph Michels and Sonja Richter (Philippika 116; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017)
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a f... more At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Edited by Benedikt Eckhardt and Katharina Martin (Philippika 102; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016)
Papers by Benedikt Eckhardt
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 218 (2021): 326-328
There is a better way of reading the last two lines of AE 1981, 732. Are you as shocked as I am?
The Middle East as Middle Ground? Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Middle East Revisited (ed. Julia Hoffmann-Salz; Vienna: Holzhausen, 2021), 179-197
I was given this “teaser” to upload – but I’m afraid it only goes downhill after the first three ... more I was given this “teaser” to upload – but I’m afraid it only goes downhill after the first three pages
The Middle Maccabees. Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom (eds. Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin; Atlanta: SBL, 2021), 349-362
1 Maccabees is a completely reliable historical account inspired by god. So glad we sorted that out!
Synagogues in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Archaeological Finds, New Methods, New Theories (eds. Lutz Doering and Andrew Krause; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), 313-337
I agree that this is getting a bit old. Last one, I – hope …
Reinheit und Autorität in den Kulturen des antiken Mittelmeerraumes (eds. Benedikt Eckhardt, Clemens Leonhard and Klaus Zimmermann; Baden-Baden: Ergon, 2020), 83-98
The king tries to enter the temple – what happens next will shock you
Vigiliae Christianae 74 (2020): 471-486
Too bad that Thucydides is not preserved in only one manuscript – then I could rewrite him, too!
Journal of Ancient Judaism 11 (2020): 11-25
To overpromise, transitive + intransitive: to promise more than is possible or realistic
Oxford University Press, 2021
Oxford University Press, 2020
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 191; Leiden: Brill, 2019
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 75; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018
Edited by Michael Blömer and Benedikt Eckhardt (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 72; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018)
Edited by Hans Beck, Benedikt Eckhardt, Christoph Michels and Sonja Richter (Philippika 116; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017)
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a f... more At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Edited by Benedikt Eckhardt and Katharina Martin (Philippika 102; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016)
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 218 (2021): 326-328
There is a better way of reading the last two lines of AE 1981, 732. Are you as shocked as I am?
The Middle East as Middle Ground? Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Middle East Revisited (ed. Julia Hoffmann-Salz; Vienna: Holzhausen, 2021), 179-197
I was given this “teaser” to upload – but I’m afraid it only goes downhill after the first three ... more I was given this “teaser” to upload – but I’m afraid it only goes downhill after the first three pages
The Middle Maccabees. Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom (eds. Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin; Atlanta: SBL, 2021), 349-362
1 Maccabees is a completely reliable historical account inspired by god. So glad we sorted that out!
Synagogues in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Archaeological Finds, New Methods, New Theories (eds. Lutz Doering and Andrew Krause; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), 313-337
I agree that this is getting a bit old. Last one, I – hope …
Reinheit und Autorität in den Kulturen des antiken Mittelmeerraumes (eds. Benedikt Eckhardt, Clemens Leonhard and Klaus Zimmermann; Baden-Baden: Ergon, 2020), 83-98
The king tries to enter the temple – what happens next will shock you
Vigiliae Christianae 74 (2020): 471-486
Too bad that Thucydides is not preserved in only one manuscript – then I could rewrite him, too!
Journal of Ancient Judaism 11 (2020): 11-25
To overpromise, transitive + intransitive: to promise more than is possible or realistic
Law in the Roman Provinces (eds. Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 417-435
Provincial agency everywhere, even in the Barbarian West!
In: K. Czajkowski and B. Eckhardt (eds.) Law in the Roman Provinces. Oxford: OUP, pp. 1-15., 2020
Of course I can write a long article comparing apples and oranges.
Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities (ed. Benedikt Eckhardt; Leiden: Brill, 2019), 13-36
Not everything is like everything else in every respect.
Ancient Society 49 (2019): 1-39
I said some, not all. Pdf available.
Past & Present 241 (2018): 3-31
T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls (eds. George J. Brook & Charlotte Hempel; London: T&T Clark, 2018), 86-96
Qumran and associations (again!?).
Theologische Literaturzeitung 143 (2018): 983-998
A discussion of recent research, already outdated, as one would expect.
Mnemosyne 71 (2018): 298-314
No-one.
Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) (eds. Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N. I. Kuin, Muriel Moser and David Weidgenannt; Leiden: Sidestone, 2017), 71-81
https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Von Magna Graecia nach Asia Minor. Festschrift für Linda-Marie Günther zum 65. Geburtstag (eds. Hans Beck, Benedikt Eckhardt, Christoph Michels and Sonja Richter; Philippika 116; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017), 197-209
Dead Sea Discoveries 24/3 (2017): 407-423
It is complicated
Klio 96/2 (2014): 732-737
Theologische Revue 110/1 (2014): 67-69
Since late antiquity, the pervasiveness of Roman law in the Imperium Romanum has usually been tak... more Since late antiquity, the pervasiveness of Roman law in the Imperium Romanum has usually been taken for granted. From this perspective, law united the empire as a coherent sphere of civilization, an image preferred by Roman emperors and modern scholars alike. While the continued existence of local law was at times acknowledged, the dominance of Roman concepts, especially after 212 CE, appeared to be beyond question. Recent research has significantly muddied the waters by paying attention to the many local variants of law and legal practice under Rome. However, a new narrative has not yet emerged, not least because the diverse data scattered throughout the empire seems to make a synthetic treatment of the subject a nigh on impossible task.
Funded by the Thyssen Foundation, this international conference brings together a large number of experts to discuss how law, Roman or otherwise, was transmitted, used, neglected and transformed in the Roman provinces from the late Republic until the late third century CE. The panels are divided by region, but united by four main questions: Which societal fields are subject to law? Is there evidence for a gradual increase in the importance of Roman law (or of a sudden one after the Constitutio Antoniniana)? Whence does knowledge of law derive? And who are the carriers of ideas and innovations related to the legal realm?
In the EABS Conference of 2019 the Impact of Hellenistic Empires Research Unit and the Judaeans i... more In the EABS Conference of 2019 the Impact of Hellenistic Empires Research Unit and the Judaeans in the Persian Empire Research Unit will hold a joint session on the theme of ‘Empire and Historiography’. We invite papers examining the ideology of and discourse on Empire in any form of historiography documented in Judaea and in neighbouring societies, in a broad range of periods (Persian, Hellenistic, and Early Roman Empire), and/or how the fact of empire impacts historiography. The relevant literature in Judaea includes biblical literature of Persian times (e.g., Deuteronomic history; Chronicles; Prophetic books); works from Hellenistic times (1 Macc; 2 Macc; Daniel); apocrypha; apocalyptic literature, Qumran; Flavius Josephus, and more. Literatures from neighbouring societies may include works composed in ancient Greek, Akkadian, and Demotic. All topics related to ‘Empire and Historiography’, such as the reflection of empire in a specific work, or how the fact of empire impacts this discourse, are welcome.