The Cambridge History Of Religions In The Ancient World Volume 2 From The Hellenistic Age To Late Antiquity

Author : William Adler,Michele Renee Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108703127

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The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World: Volume 2, From the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity by William Adler,Michele Renee Salzman Pdf

The Cambridge History of Religion in the Classical World provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The nineteen essays in this volume begin with the Hellenistic age and extend to the late Roman period. Its contributors, all acknowledged experts in their fields, analyze a wide spectrum of textual and material evidence. An essay by the General Editor sets out the central questions, themes and historical trends considered in Volumes I and II. An essay by William Adler introduces the chapters of Volume II. The regional and historical orientations of the essays will enable readers to see how a religious tradition or movement assumed a distinctive local identity, and consider its development within a broader regional and Mediterranean context. Supplemented with maps, illustrations, and detailed indexes, the volume is an excellent reference tool for scholars of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world.

Author : Michele Renee Salzman,Marvin A. Sweeney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108703135

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The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World: Volume 1, From the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Age by Michele Renee Salzman,Marvin A. Sweeney Pdf

The Cambridge History of Religion in the Classical World provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The fourteen essays in Volume I begin in the third millennium BCE with the Sumerians and extend to the fourth century BCE through the fall of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and the demise of Alexander the Great. Its contributors, all acknowledged experts in their fields, analyze a wide spectrum of textual and material evidence. An introductory essay by the General Editor sets out the central questions, themes, and historical trends considered in Volumes I and II. Marvin A. Sweeney provides an introduction to the chapters of Volume I. The regional and historical orientations of the essays will enable readers to see how a religious tradition or movement assumed a distinctive local identity, even as they view its development within a comparative framework. Supplemented with maps, illustrations, and detailed indexes, the volume is an excellent reference tool for scholars of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world.

Author : Michael Bland Simmons
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Late Antiqui
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190202392

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Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity by Michael Bland Simmons Pdf

This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces, not always theological, that helped convert the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, was the last and greatest anti-Christian writer to vehemently attack the Church before the Constantinian revolution. His contribution to the pagan-Christian debate on universalism can thus shed light on the failure of paganism and the triumph of Christianity in late antiquity. In a broader historical and cultural context this study will address some of the issues central to the debate on universalism, in which Porphyry was passionately involved and which was becoming increasingly significant during the unprecedented series of economic, cultural, political, and military crises of the third century. As the author will argue, Porphyry may have failed to find one way of salvation for all humanity, he nonetheless arrived a hierarchical soteriology, something natural for a Neoplatonist, which resulted in an integrative religious and philosophical system. His system is examined in the context of other developing ideologies of universalism, during a period of unprecedented imperial crises, which were used by the emperors as an agent of political and religious unification. Christianity finally triumphed over its competitors owing to its being perceived to be the only universal salvation cult that was capable of bringing about this unification. In short, it won due to its unique universalist soteriology. By examining a rival to Christianity's concept of universal salvation, this book will be valuable to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, patristics, church history, and late antiquity.

Author : Michele Renee Salzman,Marvin Alan Sweeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 0521858305

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The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World by Michele Renee Salzman,Marvin Alan Sweeney Pdf

Author : James Carleton Paget,Judith Lieu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107165229

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Christianity in the Second Century by James Carleton Paget,Judith Lieu Pdf

Christianity in the Second Century seeks to show how academic study on this critical period of Christian development has undergone change over the last thirty years. It focuses on contributions from early Christian and ancient Jewish studies, and ancient history, all of which have contributed to a changing scholarly landscape.

Author : Simcha Gross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009280525

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Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity by Simcha Gross Pdf

Offers a radically new account of Babylonian Jewish and rabbinic engagement and negotiation with Sasanian rule.

Author : Jennifer Baird
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472523655

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Dura-Europos by Jennifer Baird Pdf

Dura-Europos is one of Syria's most important archaeological sites. Situated on the edge of the Euphrates river, it was the subject of extensive excavations in the 1920s and 30s by teams from Yale University and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Controlled variously by Seleucid, Parthian, and Roman powers, the site was one of impressive religious and linguistic diversity: it was home to at least nineteen sanctuaries, amongst them a Synagogue and a Christian building, and many languages, including Greek, Latin, Persian, Palmyrene, and Hebrew which were excavated on inscriptions, parchments, and graffiti. Based on the author's work excavating at the site with the Mission Franco-Syrienne d'Europos-Doura and extensive archival research, this book provides an overview of the site and its history, and traces the story of its investigation from archaeological discovery to contemporary destruction.

Author : Michele Renee Salzman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 0521858305

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The Cambridge history of religions in the ancient world by Michele Renee Salzman Pdf

The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World provides a comprehensive examination of the history of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The essays in these volumes have a broad reach, covering the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, and extending from the Bronze Age into the late Roman period. Its contributors, acknowledged experts in their fields, incorporate a wide spectrum of textual and material evidence into their analyses of their fields. The regional and historical orientations of the essays will enable readers to see how a religious tradition or movement assumed a distinctive local identity, as well as to understand how each tradition developed within its broader regional context. Supplemented with maps, illustrations and detailed indexes, these volumes will be an excellent reference tool for scholars and students.

Author : Hans Derks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004513761

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The Market and the Oikos, Vol. II by Hans Derks Pdf

The Market and the Oikos analyses from a global perspective the relationships between markets and households, families and states (Vol. I) to towns versus country sides, the focus of this second volume, proceeding from early history to contemporary China.

Author : Daniel King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317482116

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The Syriac World by Daniel King Pdf

This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the worldwide diaspora of Syriac-speaking communities. The five sections examine the religion; the material, visual, and literary cultures; the history and social structures of this diverse community; and Syriac interactions with their neighbours ancient and modern. There are also detailed appendices detailing the patriarchs of the different Syriac denominations, and another appendix listing useful online resources for students. The Syriac World offers the first complete survey of Syriac culture and fills a significant gap in modern scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Syriac and Middle Eastern culture from antiquity to the modern era. Chapter 26 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Jens Schröter,Benjamin A. Edsall,Joseph Verheyden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110742244

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Jews and Christians – Parting Ways in the First Two Centuries CE? by Jens Schröter,Benjamin A. Edsall,Joseph Verheyden Pdf

The present volume is based on a conference held in October 2019 at the Faculty of Theology of Humboldt University Berlin as part of a common project of the Australian Catholic University, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Humboldt University Berlin. The aim is to discuss the relationships of “Jews” and “Christians” in the first two centuries CE against the background of recent debates which have called into question the image of “parting ways” for a description of the relationships of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. One objection raised against this metaphor is that it accentuates differences at the expense of commonalities. Another critique is that this image looks from a later perspective at historical developments which can hardly be grasped with such a metaphor. It is more likely that distinctions between Jews, Christians, Jewish Christians, Christian Jews etc. are more blurred than the image of “parting ways” allows. In light of these considerations the contributions in this volume discuss the cogency of the “parting of the ways”-model with a look at prominent early Christian writers and places and suggest more appropriate metaphors to describe the relationships of Jews and Christians in the early period.

Author : Maureen Carroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192524331

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Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World by Maureen Carroll Pdf

Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children in Roman culture, there has been relatively little research to date on the role and significance of the youngest children within the family and in society. This volume singles out this youngest age group, the under one-year-olds, in the first comprehensive study of infancy and earliest childhood to encompass the Roman Empire as a whole: integrating social and cultural history with archaeological evidence, funerary remains, material culture, and the iconography of infancy, it explores how the very particular historical circumstances into which Roman children were born affected their lives as well as prevailing attitudes towards them. Examination of these varied strands of evidence, drawn from throughout the Roman world from the fourth century BC to the third century AD, allows the rhetoric about earliest childhood in Roman texts to be more broadly contextualized and reveals the socio-cultural developments that took place in parent-child relationships over this period. Presenting a fresh perspective on archaeological and historical debates, the volume refutes the notion that high infant mortality conditioned Roman parents not to engage in the early life of their children or to view them, or their deaths, with indifference, and concludes that even within the first weeks and months of life Roman children were invested with social and gendered identities and were perceived as having both personhood and value within society.

Author : Barry S. Crawford,Merrill P. Miller
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884142034

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Redescribing the Gospel of Mark by Barry S. Crawford,Merrill P. Miller Pdf

A collaborative project with a variety of critical essays This final volume of studies by members of the Society of Biblical Literature’s consultation, and later seminar, on Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins focuses on Mark. As with previous volumes, the provocative proposals on Christian origins offered by Burton L. Mack are tested by applying Jonathan Z. Smith's distinctive social theorizing and comparative method. Essays examine Mark as an author’s writing in a book culture, a writing that responded to situations arising out of the first Roman-Judean war after the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE. Contributors William E. Arnal, Barry S. Crawford, Burton L. Mack, Christopher R. Matthews, Merrill P. Miller, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Robyn Faith Walsh explore the southern Levant as a plausible provenance of the Gospel of Mark and provide a detailed analysis of the construction of Mark as a narrative composed without access to prior narrative sources about Jesus. A concluding retrospective follows the work of the seminar, its developing discourse and debates, and the continuing work of successor groups in the field. Features A thorough examination of the relation between structure and event in social and anthropological theory that provides conceptual tools for representing the project of the author of Mark An exploration of the southern Levant as a plausible provenance of the Gospel, a permanent site of successive imperial regimes and culturally related peoples A detailed analysis of the construction of Mark as a narrative composed without access to prior narrative sources about Jesus

Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110530674

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2013 by Massimo Mastrogregori Pdf

Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.

Author : Marvin Alan Sweeney,Michele Renee Salzman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 1139600508

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The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World by Marvin Alan Sweeney,Michele Renee Salzman Pdf