Author : Marcel Simon
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
A collection of articles published previously. See vol. 2, pp. 837-846, "Antisémitisme et philosémitisme dans le monde romain", which first appeared in "Annales du C.E.S.E.R.E." 2 (1979).
Author : Jürgen Zangenberg
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9783161490446
What is a Galilean? What were the criteria of defining a person as a Galilean - archaeologically or with respect to literary sources such as Josephus or the rabbis? What role did religion play in the process of identity formation? Twenty-two articles based on papers read at conferences at Cambridge, Wuppertal and Yale by experts from 7 countries shed light on a complex region, the pivotal geographic and cultural context of both earliest Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. In these papers, ancient Galilee emerges as a dynamic region of continuous change, in which religion, 'ethnicity', and 'identity' were not static monoliths but had to be negotiated in the context of a multiform environment subject to different influences.
Author : Marcel Simon
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Bible
ISBN :
A collection of articles published previously. See vol. 2, pp. 837-846, "Antisémitisme et philosémitisme dans le monde romain", which first appeared in "Annales du C.E.S.E.R.E." 2 (1979).
Author : Arie W. Zwiep
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161484520
In this volume Arie Zwiep examines the character and purpose of the Judas-Matthias pericope in Acts 1:15-26 in the wider context of Jewish, Graeco-Roman and early Christian traditions on the death of the wicked in terms of divine retribution. Through a comprehensive analysis of form and function of the pericope in its historical and literary context, this study seeks to discern the distinctly Lukan perspective in the light of first-century reflection on the figure of Judas Iscariot, the role of the Twelve in the earliest Christian communities, and current eschatological expectations that have coloured Luke's narrative presentation. Special consideration is given to the concurrent versions of Judas' death in Matthew 27:3-10 and the writings of Papias.
Author : Lutz Doering
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9783161522369
The author provides the most extensive analysis available of ancient Jewish letter writing from the Persian period until the early rabbinic literature. In addition, he demonstrates the significance of Jewish letters for the development of early Christian letter writing.
Author : Anna Collar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107729718
The first three centuries AD saw the spread of new religious ideas through the Roman Empire, crossing a vast and diverse geographical, social and cultural space. In this innovative study, Anna Collar explores both how this happened and why. Drawing on research in the sociology and anthropology of religion, physics and computer science, Collar explores the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to explore why some religious movements succeed, while others, seemingly equally successful at a certain time, ultimately fail. Using extensive epigraphic data, Collar provides new interpretations of the diffusion of ideas across the social networks of the Jewish Diaspora and the cults of Jupiter Dolichenus and Theos Hypsistos, and in turn offers important reappraisals of the spread of religious innovations in the Roman Empire. This study will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of ancient history, archaeology, ancient religion and network theory.
Author : Maijastina Kahlos
Publisher :
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 019006725X
Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the Christianization of the late Roman Empire. The focus is on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups ('pagans' and 'heretics'). The book shows that the narrative is more nuanced than the simple Christian triumph over the classical world.
Author : Oskar Skarsaune
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830828443
Oskar Skarsaune gives us a new look into the development of the early church and its practice by showing us the evidence of interaction between the early Christians and rabbinic Judaism. He offers numerous fascinating episodes and glimpses into this untold story.
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134768214
Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.
Author : A. J. M. Wedderburn
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Baptism
ISBN : 9783161451928
