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The Jews of Oxyrhynchos address the strategos of the nome: An early fourth-century document

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Balamoshev C.
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
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2017
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issue 47
27-43
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In August 309 the Jews of Oxyrhynchos addressed the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome. If the interpretation is correct, the people who filed the document on behalf of the Jews appear to represent a koinon, which is a term also used for professional associations but here seemingly applied to the town’s Jewish community as a whole. A scholarly consensus has yet to be reached on whether the Jewish communities could be classified as collegia according to Roman law but various pieces of evidence adduced here indicate that this was possible. Another issue that is addressed here is the nature of the document and why it was addressed particularly to the strategos of the nome, who is known to have changed duties after Diocletian’s administrative reforms. Finally, this papyrus furnishes another important piece of information, as it records a further year-in-office of Dioskourides alias Ioulianos, a member of a prominent family of councillors and officials, whose origins can be traced back to Alexandria and who are known to us through (at least) three successive well-documented generations. The history of the family’s career (as evidenced by the hitherto published material) is offered in a nutshell in the form of an appendix.
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Koinon and koinônia: A Particular Case of Participation in John Philoponus

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Granata D.
Peitho. Examina Antiqua
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2018
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vol. 9
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issue 1
101-120
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The aim of this study is to discuss an original philosophical contribution made by Philoponus, who in In Cat. 18, 14–22 equates koinon in its most peculiar meaning with the concept of koinônia understood as a particu­lar case of Platonic methexis. First, the paper analyzes the passages where the Neoplatonic commentators of the Categories distinguish four distinct meanings of the Aristotelian concept of koinon. Subsequently, this article emphasizes the differences between Philoponus’ herme­neutical suggestions and those of the other commentators. Philopo­nus clarifies that while every koinon is methekton, Aristotle’s koinon is characterized by the fact that the participation is ex isou and kata meros. Thus, koinônia, according to Philoponus, is a particular case of methexis, where everyone participating in something participates in it equally and singly. The example cited by Philoponus to explain Aristotle’s koinon is that of men participating equally and singly in human nature. The study concludes with a discussion of the relationship among the concepts of koinon, koinônia and methexis.
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