Author : Hugh Lindsay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 052176050X
Full account of the practice, including the procedures and adoption's use as a mode of succession, especially in political circles.
Author : Hugh Lindsay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139482602
Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures in the Greek and Roman world. It considers the procedures for adoption followed by a separate analysis of testamentary cases, and the impact of adoption on nomenclature. The impact of adoption on inheritance arrangements is considered, including an account of how the families of freedmen were affected. Its use as a mode of succession at Rome is detailed, and this helps to understand the anxiety of childless Romans to procure a son through adoption, rather than simply to nominate heirs in their wills. The strategy also had political uses, and importantly it was used to rearrange natural succession in the imperial family. The book concludes with political adoptions, looking at the detailed case studies of Clodius and Octavian.
Author : Michael Peppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199877041
Winner of the 2013 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise Michael Peppard examines the social and political meaning of divine sonship in the Roman Empire. He begins by analyzing the conceptual framework within which the term ''son of God'' has traditionally been considered in biblical scholarship. Then, through engagement with recent scholarship in Roman history - including studies of family relationships, imperial ideology, and emperor worship - he offers new ways of interpreting the Christian theological metaphors of ''begotten''and ''adoptive'' sonship. Peppard focuses on social practices and political ideology, revealing that scholarship on divine sonship has been especially hampered by mistaken assumptions about adopted sons. He invites fresh readings of several early Christian texts, from the first Gospel to writings of the fourth century. By re-interpreting several ancient phenomena - particularly divine status, adoption, and baptism - he offers an imaginative refiguring of the Son of God in the Roman world.
Author : Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 052168711X
Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.
Author : Suzanne Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1134563191
An international collection of experts go beyond the usual cannon of literary texts, and assess a vast range of evidence - inscriptions, burial data, domestic architecture, sculpture and the law,
Author : Trevor J. Burke
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2006-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830826238
In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Trevor Burke argues that the scripture phrase "adopted as sons," while a key theological metaphor, has been misunderstood, misrepresented or neglected. He redresses the balance in this comprehensive study of the phrase. "This volume not only probes a neglected theme; it also edifies," says D. A. Carson.
Author : Robert Brian Lewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567663892
Robert Lewis examines Paul's use of the phrase “Spirit of Adoption” in Romans 8:12-17 against the background of its Roman Imperial context in order to shed light on interpretation of Paul's Letter to the Romans. Whereas other scholars have explored what Paul may have meant when he uses the term “adoption” Lewis instead explores the reasons behind Paul's coupling of it with the term “spirit”. Having examined theories for a possible Jewish antecedent for Paul's use of this phrase, and found them less than persuasive, Lewis unlocks the data within the term's Roman Imperial context that significantly clarifies what Paul means when he uses the phrase “Spirit of adoption". Lewis shows that when Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, adoption had become a feature of Imperial succession. Roman religion gave a great deal of prominence to the Roman family spirit - the genius. The Emperor's genius became identified as a deity in Roman religion and its veneration was widespread in Rome as well as the provinces. When Romans 8.12-17 is read against this background, a very different kind of exegetical picture emerges.
Author : Beryl Rawson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405187670
A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families. Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic history Includes contributions from established and rising international scholars Features illustrations of families, children, slaves, and ritual life, along with maps and diagrams of sites and dwellings Honorable Mention for 2011 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN :
This book presents the legislation that formed the basis of Roman law - The Laws of the Twelve Tables. These laws, formally promulgated in 449 BC, consolidated earlier traditions and established enduring rights and duties of Roman citizens. The Tables were created in response to agitation by the plebeian class, who had previously been excluded from the higher benefits of the Republic. Despite previously being unwritten and exclusively interpreted by upper-class priests, the Tables became highly regarded and formed the basis of Roman law for a thousand years. This comprehensive sequence of definitions of private rights and procedures, although highly specific and diverse, provided a foundation for the enduring legal system of the Roman Empire.
Author : Rose MacLean
Publisher :
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 110714292X
Argues that freed slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of Roman values under the Principate.
