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Author : Yair Furstenberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004321694
The studies in this volume examine the unique communal patterns among Jews and Christians within Roman civic culture and their diverse responses to shared challenges under Imperial rule.
Author : Jörg Frey,Daniel R. Schwartz,Stephanie Gripentrog
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158382
The book addresses critical issues of the formation and development of Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period. How could Jewish identity be defined? What about the status of women and the image of 'others'? And what about its ongoing influence in early Christianity?
Author : Judith Lieu,Professor of New Testament Studies Judith M Lieu
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199262892
Judith Lieu's study explores how a sense of being a Christian was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. By exploring this theme she reveals what made early Christianity so distinctive and separate.
Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004153097
These collected studies, previously published in diverse places between 1990 and 2006, discuss important and controversial issues in the study of the development of Judaism in the Roman world from the first century C.E. to the fifth.
Author : Judith Lieu,John North,Tessa Rajak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135081881
In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the world-wide power of the pagan Romans and later on the emergence of Christianity as an Empire-wide religion. How they coped with these dramatic changes and how they influenced the new forms of religious life that emerged in this period provide the main themes of The Jews Among Pagans and Christians. Essays by the leading scholars in the field together with the introduction by the editors, offer new approaches to understanding the role of Judaism and the pattern of religious interaction characteristic of the period.
Author : Marcel Simon
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909821781
Marcel Simon's classic study examines Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire from the second Jewish War (132-5 CE) to the end of the Jewish Patriarchate in 425 CE. First published in French in 1948, the book overturns the then commonly held view that the Jewish and Christian communities gradually ceased to interact and that the Jews gave up proselytizing among the gentiles. On the contrary, Simon maintains that Judaism continued to make its influence felt on the world at large and to be influenced by it in turn. He analyses both the antagonisms and the attractions between the two faiths, and concludes with a discussion of the eventual disappearance of Judaism as a missionary religion. The rival community triumphed with the help of a Christian imperial authority and a doctrine well adapted to the Graeco-Roman mentality.
Author : Hagith Sivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107090170
The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. Explores the lives of minors both inside and outside the home.
Author : Jack N. Lightstone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532659034
In the Seat of Moses offers readers a unique, frank, and penetrating analysis of the rise of rabbinic Judaism in the late Roman period. Over time and through masterly rhetorical strategy, rabbinic writings in post-temple Judaism come to occupy an authoritarian place within a pluralistic tradition. Slowly, the rabbis occupy the seat of Moses, and Lightstone introduces readers to this process, to the most significant texts, to the rhetorical styles and appeals to authority, and even to how authority came to be authority. As a seasoned and honest scholar, Lightstone achieves his goal of introducing novice readers to the often obscure world of rabbinic literary conventions with astounding success. This book is an excellent contribution to the Westar Studies series focused on religious literacy.
Author : Jack N. Lightstone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666762471
Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and many European lands transformed. Worship of “the gods” largely gave way to the worship of YHWH, the God of Israel, under Christianity and Islam, both developments of contemporary Judaism, after Rome destroyed Judaism’s central shrine, the Jerusalem Temple, in 70 CE. But concomitant changes occurred within contemporary Judaism. The events of 70 wiped away well-established Judaic institutions in the Land of Israel, and over time the authority of a cadre of new “masters” of Judaic law, life, and practice, the “rabbis,” took hold. What was the core, professional-like profile of members of this emerging cadre in the late second and early third centuries, when this group first attained a level of stable institutionalization (even if not yet well-established authority)? What views did they promote about the authoritative basis of their profile? What in their surrounding and antecedent sociocultural contexts lent prima facie legitimacy and currency to that profile? Geared to a nonspecialist readership, What Were the Early Rabbis? addresses these questions and consequently sheds light on eventual shifts in power that came to underpin Judaic communal life, while Christianity and Islam “Judaized” non-Jews under their expansive hegemonies.
Author : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494908
A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.
Author : Natalie B. Dohrmann,Annette Yoshiko Reed
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812245332
This volume revisits issues of empire from the perspective of Jews, Christians, and other Romans in the third to sixth centuries. Through case studies, the contributors bring Jewish perspectives to bear on longstanding debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity.
Author : Jason M. Zurawski,Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110546972
Despite the impressive strides made in the past century in the understanding of Second Temple Jewish history and the strong scholarly interest in paideia within ancient Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antique Christian cultures, the nature of Jewish paideia during the period has, until recently, received surprisingly little attention. The essays collected here were first offered for discussion at the Fifth Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, held in Naples, Italy, from June 30 – July 4, 2015, the purpose of which was to gain greater insight into the diversity of views of Jewish education during the period, both in Judea and Diaspora communities, by viewing them in light of their contemporary Greco-Roman backgrounds and Ancient Near Eastern influences. Together, they represent the broad array of approaches and specialties required to comprehend this complex and multi-faceted subject, and they demonstrate the fundamental importance of the topic for a fuller understanding of the period. The volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of the history and culture of the Jewish people during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, ancient education, and Greek and Roman history.
Author : William S. Campbell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567709950
William S. Campbell provides a comprehensive commentary on Paul's most challenging letter. In conversation with reception history and previous scholarship, he emphasizes the contextuality of Romans as a letter to Rome, using social identity theory combined with historical, literary and theological perspectives to arrive at a coherent reading of the entire letter. Because Paul has never visited Rome and is not the founder of the Christ-movement there, Campbell argues that his guidance and teaching are formulated more cautiously than in his other letters. Yet the long list of people who had previous links with him and his mission to the 'gentiles' demonstrates that Paul is well-informed about the situation in Rome and addresses issues that have arisen. With Christ the Messianic Time is beginning, but there was some lack of clarity in Rome about the implications of this for Jews and gentiles. Rather than ethne in Christ replacing Israel, as some in Rome possibly concluded, Campbell stresses that Paul affirms the irrevocable calling of Israel, and that simultaneously the identity of ethne in Christ is also called alongside the people Israel; thus, the integrity of the identity of both is affirmed as indispensable for God's purpose now revealed in Christ. Campbell fully demonstrates how Paul in Romans achieves this by the social and theological intertwining of the message of the gospel.
Author : Joshua Paul Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004684720
In this volume Joshua Paul Smith challenges the long-held assumption that Luke and Acts were written by a gentile, arguing instead that the author of these texts was educated and enculturated within a Second-Temple Jewish context. Advancing from a consciously interdisciplinary perspective, Smith considers the question of Lukan authorship from multiple fronts, including reception history and social memory theory, literary criticism, and the emerging discipline of cognitive sociolinguistics. The result is an alternative portrait of Luke the Evangelist, one who sees the mission to the gentiles not as a supersession of Jewish law and tradition, but rather as a fulfillment and expansion of Israel’s own salvation history.
Author : Jeremy L. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009366373
Acts of the Apostles presents Roman officials and militarized police criminalizing, prosecuting, and incarcerating a movement of Jesus followers. This book brings Acts into conversation with ancient and modern understandings of crime by tending to laws and by exploring how different writers portray the criminalized.