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Contents From the Editor 1, 183 A Late Antique Silver Reliquary in Toronto 3 Galit Noga-Banai and Linda Safran Text, Image and the “Visionary Body” in Early Byzantine Hagiography: Incubation and the Rise of the Christian Image Cult 31 Matthew J. Dal Santo Archangels, Magical Amulets, and the Defense of Late Antique Miletus 55 Rangar H. Cline “With a Pure Heart and a Truthful Tongue”: The Recovery of the Text of the Manichaean Daily Prayers 79 Iain Gardner Bishops and their Position of Power in the Late Third Century CE: The Cases of Gregory Thaumaturgus and Paul of Samosata 100 Daniëlle Slootjes The Sun without Rays and the Eclipse of 272 116 Luigi Pedroni Law and Legal Documents in the Sermons of Peter Chrysologus 124 Nathan J. Ristuccia Late Antique Note Lucilla and the Bone: Remarks on an Early Testimony to the Cult of Relics 157 Robert Wiśniewski Conference Review Regionalization and the Integration of the Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, Heidelberg and Frankfurt, 3–6 June 2010 162 Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner Making a Gothic History: Does the Getica of Jordanes Preserve Genuinely Gothic Traditions? 185 J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz Early Merovingian Bavaria: A Late Antique Italian Perspective 217 Carl I. Hammer JLA 4.2 3rd proof text.indd 387 JLA 4.2 3rd proof text.indd 387 12/7/2011 2:31:35 PM 12/7/2011 2:31:35 PM Kingdoms or Dynasties? Arabs, History, and Identity before Islam 245 Greg Fisher The Parable of the Seated Augustus: At the Intersection of Imperial History, Rabbinic Midrash, and Roman Art 268 Alan Appelbaum Ammianus, Jovian, and the Syriac Julian Romance 280 Jan Willem Drijvers Multiple Voices in Chronicle Sources: The Reign of Leo I (457–474) in Book Fourteen of Malalas 298 Philip Wood Between Mysteries and Factions: Initiation Rituals, Student Groups, and Violence in the Schools of Late Antique Athens 315 Dallas DeForest “Invisible Things on Visible Forms”: Pedagogy and Anagogy in Porphyry’s Περι´ ἁγαλματ́ων 343 Todd C. Krulak Book Reviews 174, 365 Volume Table of Contents 387 JLA 4.2 3rd proof text.indd 388 JLA 4.2 3rd proof text.indd 388 12/7/2011 2:31:35 PM 12/7/2011 2:31:35 PM ...