Andreas Bendlin is Associate Professor of Classics at the Departments of Historical Studies and of Classics at the University of Toronto. He is working on ancient Mediterranean migration, Roman associations, and Graeco-Roman cultural history more generally, but the main focus of his research is religion in the Roman Mediterranean, from the city of Rome and Italy to the Imperial Greek East, and from the archaic period to Roman religion\u2019s Nachleben<\/em> in the modern world. Current research includes a large-scale project on demography, migration, and urbanism, and their impact on religious pluralism in the city of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n I am currently working on a translation with essays of Marcus Tullius Cicero\u2019s De Legibus<\/em> (\u201cOn Laws\u201d), a philosophical dialogue from the late 50s BCE, in which the author proposes a set of laws and adds his own lemmatized commentary on each lex<\/em>, meat to explicate his \u201claw-code\u201d and legitimize the author as a law-giver. I am interested in the grammatical, legal, philosophical, or theological commentary (and glossary) tradition that informs both Cicero\u2019s endeavour and the Greek and Roman commentaries of his predecessors and contemporaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWer braucht\u201a Heilige Schriften\u2019? Die Textbezogenheit der Religionsgeschichte und das \u201aReden \u00fcber die G\u00f6tter\u2019 in der griechisch-r\u00f6mischen Antike,\u201d in: C. Bultmann & al<\/em>. (eds), Heilige Schriften: Ursprung, Geltung und Gebrauch<\/em> (M\u00fcnster, 2005), 205\u201328. 251\u201354.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ed., with J. R\u00fcpke, R\u00f6mische Religion im historischen Wandel: Diskursentwicklung von Plautus bis Ovid <\/em>(Stuttgart, 2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cReligion, Violence and the Diasporic Experience: The Jewish Diaspora in Flavian Rome and Puteoli,\u201d in: J.H.F. Dijkstra & C.R. Raschle (eds.), Religious Violence in the Ancient World<\/em> (Cambridge & New York, 2020), 133\u201376.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018Sodalician Associations\u2019? Dig<\/em>. 47.22.1 pr<\/em>. and Imperial Government,\u201d in: W. E. Arnal et al.<\/em> (eds.), Scribal Practices and Social Structures among Jesus Adherents: Essays in Honour of John S. Kloppenborg <\/em>(Leuven, 2016), Vol. 2, 435\u201364.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAssociations, Funerals, Sociality, and Roman Law: The Collegium <\/em>of Diana and Antinous in Lanuvium (CIL<\/em> 14.2112) Reconsidered, in: M. \u00d6hler (ed.), Aposteldekret und antikes Vereinswesen: Gemeinschaft und ihre Ordnung<\/em> (T\u00fcbingen, 2011), 207\u201396.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOn the Uses and Disadvantages of Divination: Oracles and their Literary Representations in the Time of the Second Sophistic,\u201d in: J. A. North, S. R. F. Price (eds), The Religious History of the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians<\/em> (Oxford & New York, 2011), 175\u2013250. <\/p>\n\n\n\nResearch related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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