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The work of Pierre Herbart was influenced by that of Gide, a close friend thirty-four years his elder. Thematic similarities and the necessity of centering their writing on the Self are both aspects that link the two. If Herbart's autobiographical model largely remains that of Gide — blending as it does fiction, myth and the account of real events — it differs by its profound narrative sobriety. This aesthetic corresponds to a simplification of the autobiographical posture : Herbart privileges the act of telling, of evoking time past, over that of analyzing or justifying oneself. His work has often suffered, however, from the comparison to that of Gide, with which it has come to be associated. Herbart's work, which often goes against the grain of literary trends and reader's expectations, defies easy classification.
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Tacitus is the only witness to the persecution of the “Christians” in Rome following the famous fire of 64 CE that severely burned the capital city ; a catastrophe for which Nero would have been considered responsible had the followers of that “most mischievous superstition” of Judean origins not been identified as the culprits. If, on the one hand, it is easy to understand the urgency for the imperial power to find scapegoats, on the other hand, it is not so easy to imagine the reasons why the members of a Judean sectarian, marginal group were eventually chosen. A new look at a series of key passages from the writings of Josephus and contemporary apocalyptic texts allow us to have a better understanding of the expectations at work among the members of Judean radical groups, as well as the perception that Romans could have had of those who, in their opinion, were simply agitators and bandits.
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This article proposes a philological and historic analysis of the Talmudic name Ben Pantera. It is suggested that this ancient expression has to be understood as corresponding to a period in which the Jews wished to think of Christianity, choosing the person of Jesus as an emblematic figure of this reality. The expression Ben Pantera expresses mockery and even scorn towards Jesus. It must be placed back in a period in which, on account of the doctrinal controversies between Jews and Christians, the two religions had consummated a Parting of the Ways and acknowledged each other as rivals. Thus, Ben Pantera appears to be the oldest mention of Jesus in the Talmudic literature.
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