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| Author | : Pieter Willem van der Horst |
| Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9783161488511 |
A collection of essays, most of which were published previously. Partial contents:
| Author | : Jan Willem van Henten |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2012-11-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004242155 |
Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts focuses upon the nexus of early Christian Ethics and its contexts as a dynamic process. The ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman or early Christian traditions as well as with the social-historical context at large continuously transformed early Christian ethics. The volume proposes a dynamic model for studying culture and its various expressions in a society composed of several ethnic and religious groups. The contributions focus on specific transformations of ethics in key documents of early Christianity, or take a more comparative perspective pointing to similar developments and overlaps as well as particularities within early Christian writings, Hellenistic-Jewish writings, Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish inscriptions.
| Author | : Judith Lieu |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2006-02-16 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780199291427 |
'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. Contemporary discussions of identity provide the background to a careful study of early Christian texts from the first two centuries. Judith Lieu shows that there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive.
| Author | : Friedrich Avemarie |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2005-08-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134772270 |
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 | : Stanley E. Porter |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 631 |
| Release | : 2012-10-23 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004236392 |
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. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Greco-Roman Jewish culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Hellenistic Jewish texts.
| Author | : Hans-Josef Klauck |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 550 |
| Release | : 2003-05-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780567089434 |
This is a uniquely well-informed and comprehensive guide to the world of religion in the Graeco-Roman environment of early Christianity. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, the volume paints a carefully nuanced portrait of the Christians' religious context. Besides describing ordinary domestic and civic religion and popular belief (including astrology, divination and 'magic'), there is extended discussion of mystery cults, ruler and emperor cults, the religious dimensions of philosophy, and Gnosticism. A valuable textbook for advanced students, as well as an authoritative reference work for scholars.
| Author | : Mark Harding |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0802875157 |
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 | : Judith Lieu |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2004-05-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199262896 |
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 | : Judith Lieu |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1135081883 |
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 |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2013-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0812245334 |
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.
