Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Journeys on the Way to This Volume
Real and Imagined Geography
The View from Aphrodisias and Hadrianoutherae
The Romance of Imperial Travel in Aelius Aristides’s Smyrna Orations
The Account of a Journey in the
of [Pseudo-]Lucian in the Context of Ancient Travel
Virtual Journeys in the Roman Near East: Maps and Geographical Texts
There and Back Again: A Journey to Ashkelon and Its Intertexts in Yerushalmi
Reconstructing Encounters in Distant Places
The Adventure of Travel in the Greek Novel
Indian Travel and Cultural Self-Location in the
and the
Parodies of Educational Journeys in Josephus, Justin Martyr, and Lucian1
The Historiographical Vehicle of Lucian’s Journey in
Strangers on the Road: Otherness, Identification, and Disguise in Rabbinic Travel Tales of Late Roman Palestine
Between the Bodily and the Holy
Concord and
Greek Elements in Philo’s Account of Jewish Pilgrimage*
Imposing Travelers: An Inscription from Galatia and the Journeys of the Earliest Christians
“Lead Me Forth in Peace”: The Origins of the Wayfarer’s Prayer and Rabbinic Rituals of Travel in the Roman World
Touching and Feeling in Late Antique Christian Pilgrims’ Narratives
Jesus’s Travels from Different Perspectives
The Wandering Jesus: Luke’s Travel Narrative as Part of His Hermeneutical Strategy of “Double Codification”
Jesus’s Descent to the Underworld in the Babylonian Talmud and in Christian Literature of the Roman East
Destination Rome
“Going up to Rome” in Josephus’s
From Disaster to Disclosure: The Shipwreck in the Book of Acts in Light of Greco-Roman Ideology
“From Syria all the Way to Rome”: Ignatius of Antioch’s Pauline Journey to Christianity
List of Contributors
Index of Names
General Index