Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity /

Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry. The book is divided into three main sections. The first section debates the de...

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団体著者: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion
その他の著者: Vaage, Leif E.
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des Sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006.
シリーズ:Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 18.
オンライン・アクセス:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=155726
目次:
  • Ancient religious rivalries and the struggle for success: Christians, Jews, and others in the early Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage
  • Declining polis? Religious rivalries in ancient civic context / Philip A. Harland
  • Rivalry and defection / Stephen G. Wilson
  • Is the pagan fair fairly dangerous? Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity / Reena Basser
  • My rival, my fellow: conceptual and methodological prolegomena to mapping inter-religious relations in 2nd- and 3rd-century CE Levantine society using the evidence of early rabbinic texts / Jack N. Lightstone
  • "The field God has assigned": geography and mission in Paul / Terence L. Donaldson
  • Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy / Steve Mason
  • On becoming a Mithraist: new evidence for the propagation of the mysteries / Roger Beck
  • Rodney Stark and "the mission to the Jews" / Adele Reinhartz
  • "Look how they love one another": early Christian and pagan care for the sick and other charity / Steven C. Muir
  • Religious market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's pagan competition / Roger Beck
  • Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage.