The Jews Among Pagans And Christians

Author : Judith Lieu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135081883
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire written by Judith Lieu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819562180
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Pagans, Jews, and Christians written by Arnaldo Momigliano and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1987-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the relationships between pagan Greece, imperial Rome, Judaism, and Christianity.

Author : Robin Lane Fox
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pagans and Christians written by Robin Lane Fox and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recreates the world from the second to the fourth century A.D., when the gods of Olympus lost their dominion, and Christianity, with the conversion of Constantine, triumphed in the Mediterranean world.

Author : A.D.(Doug) Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136617388
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity written by A.D.(Doug) Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book A.D. Lee charts the rise to dominance of Christianity in the Roman empire. Using translated texts he explains the fortunes of both Pagans and Christians from the upheavals of the 3rd Century to the increasingly tumultuous times of the 5th and 6th centuries. The book also examines important themes in Late Antiquity such as the growth of monasticism, the emerging power of bishops and the development of pilgrimage, and looks at the fate of other significant religious groups including the Jews, Zoroastrians and Manichaeans.

Author : Mordechai Aviam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580461719
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Galilee written by Mordechai Aviam and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume holds 21 chapters arranged in chronological order from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods, each of them based on the results of archaeological excavations or field surveys conducted by the author during the past 25 years. It is a summary of field work as well as summaries of studies carried out in Galilee during the last 100 years. Further, it is a study of the Galileans and their material culture during the 1000 years between the third century BCE and the seventh century CE, a long period of time in which the foundation for both the Jesus movement and Mishnaic Judaism were built. This book gives scholars of religion, history, and archaeology much new and concentrated information, much of which has never been previously published.Mordechai Aviam was for 11 years the District Archaeologist of the Western Galilee for the Israel Antiquities Authority. He is an adjunct professor in residence at the Center for Judaic Studies in the University of Rochester.

Author : Mark J. Edwards
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019154437X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apologetics in the Roman Empire written by Mark J. Edwards and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to tackle the origins and purpose of literary religious apologetic in the first centuries of the Christian era by discussing, on their own terms, texts composed by pagan and Jewish authors as well as Christians. Previous studies of apologetic have focused primarily on the Christian apologists of the second century. These, and other Christian authors, are represented also in this volume but, in addition, experts in the religious history of the pagan world, in Judaism, and in late antique philosophy examine very different literary traditions to see to what extent techniques and motifs were shared across the religious divide. Each contributor has investigated the probable audience, the literary milieu, and the specific social, political, and cultural circumstances which elicited each apologetic text. In many cases these questions lead on to the further issue of the relation between the readers addressed by the author and the actual readers, and the extent to which a defined literary genre of apologetic developed. These studies, ranging in time from the New Testament to the early fourth century, and including novel contributions by specialists in ancient history, Jewish history, ancient philosophy, the New Testament, and patristics, will put the study of ancient religious apologetic on to a new footing.

Author : Ross Shepard Kraemer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198023138
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Share of the Blessings written by Ross Shepard Kraemer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking volume, Ross Shepard Kraemer provides the first comprehensive look at women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. She vividly recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women, with many fascinating examples: Greek women's devotion to goddesses, rites of Roman matrons, Jewish women in rabbinic and diaspora communities, Christian women's struggles to exercise authority and autonomy, and women's roles as leaders in the full spectrum of Greco-Roman religions. In every case, Kraemer reveals the connections between the social constraints under which women lived, and their religious beliefs and practices. The relationship among female autonomy, sexuality, and religion emerges as a persistent theme. Analyzing the monastic Jewish Therapeutae and various Christian communities, Kraemer demonstrates the paradoxical liberation which women achieved by rejection of sexuality, the body, and the female. In the epilogue, Kraemer pursues the disturbing implications such findings have for contemporary women. Based on an astonishing variety of primary sources, Her Share of the Blessings is an insightful work that goes beyond the limitations of previous scholarship to provide a more accurate portrait of women in the Greco-Roman world.

Author : Rina Talgam
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosaics of Faith written by Rina Talgam and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical history of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Early Abbasidmosaics in the Holy Land from the second century B.C.E to eighth century C.E.

Author : David Rokeah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004065604
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews, Pagans, and Christians in Conflict written by David Rokeah and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. A. North
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199567355
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Religious History of the Roman Empire written by J. A. North and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously published papers by leading scholars, dealing with the religious history of the Roman Empire. It covers Christianity and Judaism as well as the paganism of the Empire which so deeply influenced these world religions.