Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire
Title | Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
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.
Apologetics in the Roman Empire
Title | Apologetics in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Mark J. Edwards |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 1999-06-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 019154437X |
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.
Christianity in Ancient Rome
Title | Christianity in Ancient Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Green |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2010-04-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567032507 |
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The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire
Title | The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
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.
Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World
Title | Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Yair Furstenberg |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 2016-06-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004321691 |
The studies in this volume examine the unique communal patterns among Jews and Christians within Roman civic culture and their diverse responses to shared challenges under Imperial rule.
Verus Israel
Title | Verus Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Marcel Simon |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | 554 |
Release | 1996-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1909821780 |
Marcel Simon's classic study examines Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire from the second Jewish War (132-5 CE) to the end of the Jewish Patriarchate in 425 CE. First published in French in 1948, the book overturns the then commonly held view that the Jewish and Christian communities gradually ceased to interact and that the Jews gave up proselytizing among the gentiles. On the contrary, Simon maintains that Judaism continued to make its influence felt on the world at large and to be influenced by it in turn. He analyses both the antagonisms and the attractions between the two faiths, and concludes with a discussion of the eventual disappearance of Judaism as a missionary religion. The rival community triumphed with the help of a Christian imperial authority and a doctrine well adapted to the Graeco-Roman mentality.
Jewish Culture and Society Under the Christian Roman Empire
Title | Jewish Culture and Society Under the Christian Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lee Kalmin |
Publisher | Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | 20 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | 9789042911819 |
This book investigates the complexity, diversity, uniqueness and enduring significance of Jewish life in the Christian Roman Empire, from 312 to 634 C.E. During this period there occurred an unprecedented Jewish cultural explosion, encompassing the compilation and/or composition of such texts as the Palestinian Talmud, the main aggadic midrashim, an extensive magical/mystical literature, the revived apocalypse, a vast corpus of piyyutim and the beginnings of a practically oriented halakhic literature. Furthermore, this was the era of the florition of Jewish art, for it was only in the fourth century that a specifically Jewish iconographic language came into common use in the synagogues and catacombs, the archeological remains of almost all of which date from this period. This volume moves toward a synthesizing and contextualizing view of the Jewish cultural production of late antiquity, examining the interaction of Jews, Christians and pagans and with the emergence of new religious forms generated by such interaction.