The Roman Collegia

My review of
Jonathan S. Perry, The Roman Collegia. The Modern Evolution of an Ancient Concept. Mnemosyne Supplement 277. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xii, 247. ISBN 978-90-04-15080-5. $129.00.
is now available at BrynMawrReview.

The Roman Collegia

My review of J. S. Perry,
The Roman Collegia. The Modern Evolution of an Ancient Concept (Mnemosyne Supplementa cclxvii; Leiden: Brill, 2006),
was sent to BrynMawr Classical Review today. It should be out in a couple of months.

Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora:

Having a look over at Philip Harland's website, I discovered he has a new article out, and as usual I find his works interesting:Philip Harland, 'Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora:A Jewish Family and 'Pagan' Guilds at Hierapolis,' orig. printed in Journal of Jewish Studies 57 (2006) 222-244. I hope I get time in the nearby Christmas holidays to read it,- and several others...

Roman Law and Collegia

My interest for the collegia never fade away, hence the reference to this article:
Ilias N. ARNAOUTOGLOU, Roman Law and Collegia in Asia Minor, printed in Revue Internationale des droits de l’Antiquité XLIX (2002)(An earlier version of this article was presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of Legal Historians in Komotini, 20-21 October 2000 and was published in Greek as He
romaike nomothesia peri somateion kai he epharmoge tes sten Mikra Asia, Epeteris Kentrou Ereunes Historias Hellenikou Dikaiou 35 (2001) 317-332).
The focus of the aricle is given in the first paragraph:In the 1996 volume under the title Voluntary associations in the
Graeco-Roman world, Wendy Cotter devoted a chapter on the Roman
legislation on clubs and the control exercised by the Roman
administration.1 The author claims that the documentation on collegia
is poor, as far as the western and the eastern provinces are
concerned. She wonders whether associations in the eastern part
were dissolved or became part of Roman collegia or were altered to
avoid dissolution. Cotter seems to base her research on the material
collected by Waltzing (1895-1900) and his interpretation.2 Both
seem today out of date…

Philip Harland's blog

Philip Harland's blog on Relgions of the Ancient Mediterranean has moved to this location: http://www.philipharland.com/Blog/. This blog contains a lot of interesting things relavant also for student of Philo and the Jewish Diasspora world and life.
Among his most recent posts I might point especially to
Fish in Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian mosaics,
His last posting is on
Regional rivalries and humour in the Greco-Roman world.

Vereine, Synagogen und Gemeinden

Mohr - Siebeck announces in a recent posting a new volume on the Greco-Roman clubs and associations. It is interesting to see how this phenomena of the Greco-Roman social world has gained interest in the last 20 years or so. After a flourishing period at the begining of the twentieth century, it has received new attention, not at least in relation to the communities reflected in the New Testament. The present volume is an addition to these publications: Vereine, Synagogen und Gemeinden im kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasien.
Hrsg. v. Andreas Gutsfeld u. Dietrich-Alex Koch
(Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 25).Ca. 200 Seiten.
ISBN 3-16-148620-X fadengeheftete Broschur € 44.00 2005.
Contents:
T. Schmeller: Zum exegetischen Interesse an antiken Vereinen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
A.J.B. Sirks: Die Vereine in der kaiserlichen Gesetzgebung
V. Hirschmann: Heidelberg Macht durch Integration? Aspekte einer gesellschaftlichen Wechselwirkung zwischen Verein und Stadt am Beispiel der Mysten und Techniten des Dionysos von Smyrna
D. Brabant: Persönliche Gotteserfahrung und religiöse Gruppe die Therapeutai des Asklepios in Pergamon
S. Sommer: Religion und Vereinigungsunruhen in der Kaiserzeit D. Schinkel: "Und sie wußten nicht, warum sie zusammengekommen waren" Gruppen und Gruppeninteressen in der Demetriosepisode (Apg 19, 2340)
J.M.G. Barclay: Money and Meetings: Group Formation among Diaspora Jews and Early Christians
D.-A. Koch/D. Schinkel: Die Frage nach den Vereinen in der Geistes- und Theologiegeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des zeitgenössischen Vereinswesens und der "Wende" in der protestantischen Theologie nach 1918
R.S. Ascough: Voluntary Associations and the Formation of Pauline Christian Communities: Overcoming the Objections

Online articles on ancient associations

Philip Harland has a posting on his blog on Some online articles on associations in the ancient Mediterranean that might be interesting to someone.