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Author : Pieter Willem van der Horst
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 3161488512
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Author : Molly Whittaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521242517
The aim of this book is to give access to sources which illustrate Graeco-Roman views on Jews and Christians from 200 BC to AD 200. Passages range from longer extracts written by historians to short incidental references by disparate authors which throw light on attitudes towards beliefs and social customs. The pagan religious background, especially the Mystery religions, is also described and illustrated by selected passages, so that the reader may have some idea of the general religious climate during this period. Every quotation is prefixed by a brief biography of the author and all passages have been translated into English, with explanatory comment when necessary. Connecting essays act as summaries and focus the attention on essential issues. These, together with a chronological chart and maps should enable a student coming fresh to the subject, without previous specialized knowledge, to see the period in historical perspective.
Author : Judith Lieu,Professor of New Testament Studies Judith M Lieu
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Jan Willem van Henten,Joseph Verheyden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004242159
In Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts experts from various fields analyze the process of transformation of early Christian ethics because of the ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman and Christian traditions.
Author : Friedrich Avemarie,Jan Willem van Henten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134772278
This volume explores the fascinating phenomenon of noble death through pagan, Jewish and Christian sources. Today's society is uncomfortable with death, and willingly submitting to a violent and ostentatious death in public is seen as particularly shocking and unusual. Yet classical sources give a different view, with public self-sacrifice often being applauded. The Romans admired a heroic end in the battlefield or the arena, suicide in the tradition of Socrates was something laudable, and Christians and Jews alike faithfully commemorated their heroes who died during religious persecutions. The cross-cultural approach and wide chronological range of this study make it valuable for students and scholars of ancient history, religion and literature.
Author : Judith Lieu,John North,Tessa Rajak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Natalie B. Dohrmann,Annette Yoshiko Reed
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Martin Goodman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191518362
This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world. The authors make extensive use not only of types of evidence familiar to classicists, such as inscriptions and the writing of Josephus, but also Jewish religious literature, including rabbinic texts. The various studies demonstrate that, although Jews lived to some extent apart from others and with distinctive customs, in many ways this showed the cultural presuppositions and preoccupations of their gentile contemporaries. The book aims to encourage wider use of the Jewish evidence by classicists and will be important for all students of the classical world.
Author : Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004234765
In Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through reference to Hellenistic Judaism and its literary forms.
Author : Molly Whittaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521285569
The aim of this book is to give access to sources which illustrate Graeco-Roman views on Jews and Christians from 200 BC to AD 200. Passages range from longer extracts written by historians to short incidental references by disparate authors which throw light on attitudes towards beliefs and social customs. The pagan religious background, especially the Mystery religions, is also described and illustrated by selected passages, so that the reader may have some idea of the general religious climate during this period. Every quotation is prefixed by a brief biography of the author and all passages have been translated into English, with explanatory comment when necessary. Connecting essays act as summaries and focus the attention on essential issues. These, together with a chronological chart and maps should enable a student coming fresh to the subject, without previous specialized knowledge, to see the period in historical perspective.
Author : Mark Harding,Alanna Nobbs
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802875150
Into All the World--the third volume from editors Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs on the content and social setting of the New Testament--brings together a team of eminent Australian scholars in ancient history, New Testament, and the early church to take the story of Christianity into the Jewish and Greco- Roman world of the first century. In thirteen chapters, the contributors discuss all the post-Pauline New Testament writings, devoting attention to both their content and their context. They examine the impact of the growth of the church on both Jews and Gentiles, exploring issues such as the diaspora, minorities, the Book of Acts, and the Fourth Gospel. The book then proceeds to a discussion of the impact of Christianity on the Roman state, including consideration of the book of Revelation and the imperial cult. A final chapter investigates how the church was perceived by Clement of Rome at the end of the first century.
Author : Peter J. Tomson,Joshua J. Schwartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004278479
The papers in this volume are organized around the ambition to reboot the writing of history about Jews and Christians in the first two centuries CE. There are three focal points: (1) the varieties of Jewish and Christian expression in late Second Temple times, (2) the socio-economic, military, and ideological processes during the period of the revolts, and (3) the post-revolt Jewish and Christian identities that emerged. As such, the volume is part of a larger project that is to result in a source book and a history of Jews and Christians in the first and second centuries.
Author : Jack Lightstone
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231502761
Jack Lightstone's Commerce of the Sacred remains an original and influential contribution to Judaic studies. Lightstone offers critical perspectives on the practices and beliefs of Greco-Roman Jews who lived outside of Palestine and beyond rabbinic control or influence. He investigates their influence on early Christians and examines how the two communities defined themselves in relation to each another. He challenges the view of Judaism as a single set of practices and beliefs and argues that Jews of the Greco-Roman Diaspora did not retain a shared, biblical 'perception of the world' centered on the Jerusalem temple. Rather, they believed multiple points of contact between God and man could be made through particular rites: prayer in the presence of the sacred scrolls, pleas for help at the tombs of dead saints and martyrs, and the interventions of holy men with alleged supernatural powers, to name a few. Many early Christians also participated in this Judaic 'commerce of the sacred', blurring the social and religious boundaries that distinguished Jews and Christians. Lightstone innovatively combines approaches from the history of religions and social anthropology to provide a different picture of Judaism during this period. Featuring a new foreword and an updated bibliography, Commerce of the Sacred resituates the Jews in the Greco-Roman world.
Author : Karl P. Donfried,Peter Richardson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0802842658
Rome, as the center of the first-century world, was home to numerous ethnic groups, among which were both Jews and Christians. The dealings of the Roman government with these two groups, and their dealings with each other, are the focus of this book.t
Author : Steven Fine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134673513
Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue in the Greco-Roman period. It presents new perspectives regarding the development of the synagogue and its significance of this institution for understanding religion and society under the Roman Empire.