Lettered Christians

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004180982
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Lettered Christians by : Lincoln Blumell

Download or read book Lettered Christians written by Lincoln Blumell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri just over a century ago a number of important texts directly relating to ancient Christianity have come to light. While certain literary texts have received considerable attention in scholarship by comparison the documentary evidence relating to Christianity has received far less attention and remains rather obscure. To help redress this imbalance, and to lend some context to the Christian literary materials, this book examines the extant Christian epistolary remains from Oxyrhynchus between the third and seventh centuries CE. Drawing upon this unique corpus of evidence, which until this point has never been collectively nor systematically treated, this book breaks new ground as it employs the letters to consider various questions relating to Christianity in the Oxyrhynchite. Not only does this lucid study fill a void in scholarship, it also gives a number of insights that have larger implications on Christianity in late antiquity.

On This Rock

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725260387
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis On This Rock by : E. A. Judge

Download or read book On This Rock written by E. A. Judge and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The command of the risen Christ was to make students of all nations: “On this Rock I will build . . .” But the spread of the Pentecostal gospel disrupted the national values of eternal Rome, with her increasingly international citizenship. Loyalty to the Caesars, obligatory in the Roman world, could not break the Christians’ trust in their Christ. In despair the government gave in to the unimaginable: Galerius tolerated the Christian “alternative communities” and their divergent outlook on life. One must now tolerate living in two incommensurate communities at once. This is at the heart of Late Antiquity. The Rock remains, but masked in the antique ceremonial of “religion.” That late antique compromise has laid the foundation for the interaction of church and state in the modern West. Successor to Paul and the Conflict of Cultures (2019), this seventh collection of Judge’s historical essays explores the development of Christianity in Roman society from the New Testament era to the time of Constantine and beyond—always with a view to the modern situation.

Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152756679X
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Book Synopsis Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD by : Tarek M. Muhammad

Download or read book Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD written by Tarek M. Muhammad and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 15 papers which were presented by specialists from Europe and Egypt at two conferences held at Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 2014 and 2015. Eight of the articles deal with the history of Late Antique Egypt in its manifold aspects, from monasticism and Coptic manuscripts, to the organization of the Arab conquest. The other seven contributions provide new writings from that historical period published here for the first time, or give new readings of texts earlier known as inscriptions, papyri and ostraca, and offer a close-up look at the historical setting outlined in the first part of this book.

Ad Fontes

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004161821
Total Pages : 299 pages
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Book Synopsis Ad Fontes by : Thomas J. Kraus

Download or read book Ad Fontes written by Thomas J. Kraus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a general introduction Thomas J. Kraus points out the value of assessing original manuscripts for a profound knowledge of early Christianity. This is done with the help of seventeen of his essays previously published in diverse journals or books now translated into English, enlarged by the current status quo of research, and set in a logical sequence.

Egitto oggi

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Publisher : Casa editrice il Ponte
ISBN 13 : 9788889465011
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Egitto oggi by : Elisabetta Bartuli

Download or read book Egitto oggi written by Elisabetta Bartuli and published by Casa editrice il Ponte. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108470254
Total Pages : 209 pages
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Book Synopsis Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament by : Sabine R. Huebner

Download or read book Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament written by Sabine R. Huebner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the socio-economic background of people in the New Testament using papyrological evidence from Roman Egypt.

Jesus the Oracle

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1978711808
Total Pages : 179 pages
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Book Synopsis Jesus the Oracle by : Annelies Gisela Moeser

Download or read book Jesus the Oracle written by Annelies Gisela Moeser and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jesus the Oracle, Annelies Gisela Moeser reads Jesus’s journey from Capernaum to Jerusalem in Mark’s gospel through the cultural context of second/third century Roman Egypt. Moeser provides a rich description of the Egyptian practice of oracles, including processional oracles, to build a model with which to read Mark. This prism brings attention to descriptions of Jesus’s supernatural knowledge and wisdom, such as in the story of the Rich Man (Mk 10:17–22). In contrast to Clement of Alexandria’s homily on the Rich Man which counseled detachment from possessions, this reading from a non-elite perspective considers Jesus’s advice to be more radical. This model of processional oracles highlights the importance of access to the divine, including by non-elite crowds, by persons with disabilities (e.g., in comparing Bartimaeus [Mk 10:46–52] with Gemellus Horion of Karanis [a town in Egypt]), and by children. Traditional Egyptian religion upheld the existing sociopolitical regime. However, Jesus’s procession and proclamation of the basileia (reign) of G*d subverts the Roman world order and that of their local, elite allies.

The Early Christian World

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351678299
Total Pages : 2044 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis The Early Christian World by : Philip Esler

Download or read book The Early Christian World written by Philip Esler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 2044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 2000, The Early Christian World has come to be regarded by scholars, students and the general reader as one of the most informative and accessible works in English on the origins, development, character and major figures of early Christianity. In this new edition, the strengths of the first edition are retained. These include the book’s attractive architecture that initially takes a reader through the context and historical development of early Christianity; the essays in critical areas such as community formation, everyday experience, the intellectual and artistic heritage, and external and internal challenges; and the profiles on the most influential early Christian figures. The book also preserves its strong stress on the social reality of early Christianity and continues its distinctive use of hundreds of illustrations and maps to bring that world to life. Yet the years that have passed since the first edition was published have seen great advances made in our understanding of early Christianity in its world. This new edition fully reflects these developments and provides the reader with authoritative, lively and up-to-date access to the early Christian world. A quarter of the text is entirely new and the remaining essays have all been carefully revised and updated by their authors. Some of the new material relates to Christian culture (including book culture, canonical and non-canonical scriptures, saints and hagiography, and translation across cultures). But there are also new essays on: Jewish and Christian interaction in the early centuries; ritual; the New Testament in Roman Britain; Manichaeism; Pachomius the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. This new edition will serve its readers for many years to come.

Hadrian and the Christians

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110224712
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Hadrian and the Christians by : Marco Rizzi

Download or read book Hadrian and the Christians written by Marco Rizzi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Century occupies a central place in the development of ancient Christianity. The aim of the book is to examine how in the cultural, social, and religious efflorescence of the Second Century,to be witnessed inphenomena such as the Second Sophistic, Christianity found a peculiar way of integrating into the more general transformation of the Empire and how this allowed the emerging religion to establish and flourish in Graeco-Roman society. Hadrian’s reign was the starting point ofthat process and opened new possibilities of self-definition and external self-presentation to Christianity, as well asto other social and religious agencies. Differently from Judaism, however, Christianity fully seized the opportunity,thus gaining an increasing place in Graeco-Roman society, which ultimately led to the first Christian peace under the Severan emperors. The point at issue is examined from a multi-disciplinary perspective (including archaeology, cultural, religious, and political history) to challenge well-established, but no longer satisfactory, historical and hermeneutical paradigms. The contributors aim to examine institutional issues and sociocultural processes in their different aspects, as they were made possibleon Hadrian’s initiative andresulted inthemerge of early Christianityinto the Roman Empire.

The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567695964
Total Pages : 473 pages
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Book Synopsis The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity by : Alan Cadwallader

Download or read book The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity written by Alan Cadwallader and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a “state-of-question” introduction by Thomas Robinson, assessing the interrelation of the village and city with the rise of early Christianity. Alan Cadwallader then articulates a methodology for future New Testament studies on this topic, employing a series of case studies to illustrate the methodological issues raised. From there contributors explore three areas of village life in different geographical areas, by means of a series of studies, written by experts in each discipline. They discuss the ancient near east (Egypt and Israel), mainland and Isthmian Greece, Asia Minor, and the Italian Peninsula. This geographic focus sheds light upon the villages associated with the biblical cities (Israel; Corinth; Galatia; Ephesus; Philippi; Thessalonica; Rome), including potential insights into the rural nature of the churches located there. A final section of thematic studies explores central issues of local village life (indigenous and imperial cults, funerary culture, and agricultural and economic life).

Biblica:vol.52

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book Biblica:vol.52 written by and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801459168
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Book Synopsis The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity by : Éric Rebillard

Download or read book The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity written by Éric Rebillard and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary sources including legal codes, theological works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, Rebillard shows that there is little evidence to suggest that Christians occupied exclusive or isolated burial grounds in this early period. In fact, as late as the fourth and fifth centuries the Church did not impose on the faithful specific rituals for laying the dead to rest. In the preparation of Christians for burial, it was usually next of kin and not representatives of the Church who were responsible for what form of rite would be celebrated, and evidence from inscriptions and tombstones shows that for the most part Christians didn't separate themselves from non-Christians when burying their dead. According to Rebillard it would not be until the early Middle Ages that the Church gained control over burial practices and that "Christian cemeteries" became common. In this translation of Religion et Sépulture: L'église, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquité tardive, Rebillard fundamentally changes our understanding of early Christianity. The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity will force scholars of the period to rethink their assumptions about early Christians as separate from their pagan contemporaries in daily life and ritual practice.

Paul's Koinonia with the Philippians

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Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161534881
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Paul's Koinonia with the Philippians by : Julien M. Ogereau

Download or read book Paul's Koinonia with the Philippians written by Julien M. Ogereau and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Was Paul's relationship with the Philippians an economic partnership? Julien M. Ogereau explores the socio-economic dimension of Paul's koinonia with the Philippians from a Graeco-Roman perspective and argues that Paul maintained this partnership to provide financially for his mission."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588157
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (881 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt by : Jane Rowlandson

Download or read book Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt written by Jane Rowlandson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women. Texts (often personal letters) written on papyrus and other materials, objects of everyday use and funerary portraits have survived from the Graeco-Roman period of Egyptian history. But much of this unparalleled resource has been available only to specialists because of the difficulty of reading and interpreting it. Now eleven leading scholars in this field have collaborated to make available to students and other non-specialists a selection of over three hundred texts translated from Greek and Egyptian, as well as more than fifty illustrations, documenting the lives of women within this society, from queens to priestesses, property-owners to slave-girls, from birth through motherhood to death. Each item is accompanied by full explanatory notes and bibliographical references.

In the Company of Many Good Poets. Collected Papers of Franco Montanari

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110772329
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Many Good Poets. Collected Papers of Franco Montanari written by Franco Montanari and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of Franco Montanari's "Kleine Schriften" comprises some 66 papers on ancient scholarship, a topic which he decisively helped establishing as an extremely important field of study; they include general surveys of Alexandrian and Pergamene philology, major contributions to ancient Homeric scholarship (with a particular emphasis on Aristarchus), ancient scholarship on Hesiod and Aeschylus, as well as an important number of editions and notes on papyrological scholarly texts. Volume II consists of 42 contributions to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Euripides, the Athenaion Politeia, Lucian, Nonnus, philosophical papyri, the reception of antiquity and portraits of contemporary scholars.

Three Powers in Heaven

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300263325
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Three Powers in Heaven by : Emanuel Fiano

Download or read book Three Powers in Heaven written by Emanuel Fiano and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at how Christianity and Judaism became two distinct religions through the parting of their intellectual traditions How, when, and why did Christianity and Judaism diverge into separate religions? Emanuel Fiano reinterprets the parting of the ways between Jews and Christians as a split between two intellectual traditions, a split that emerged within the context of ancient debates about Jesus's relationship to God and the world. Fiano explores how Christianity moved away from Judaism through the development of new practices for religious inquiry. By demonstrating that the constitution of communal borders coincided with the elaboration of different methods for producing religious knowledge, the author shows that Christian theological controversies, often thought to teach us nothing beyond the history of dogma, can cast light on the broader religious landscape of late antiquity. Three Powers in Heaven thus marks not only a historical but also a methodological intervention in the study of the parting of the ways and in scholarship on ancient religion.

Women Officeholders in Early Christianity

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Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814659502
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (595 download)

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Book Synopsis Women Officeholders in Early Christianity by : Ute E. Eisen

Download or read book Women Officeholders in Early Christianity written by Ute E. Eisen and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Ute E. Eisen provides a scholarly investigation of the evidence that women held offices of authority in the first centuries of Christianity. Topics include apostles, prophets, theological teachers, presbyters, enrolled widows, deacons, bishops, and oikonomae. The book concludes with a chapter on "source-oriented perspectives for a history of Christian women in official positions."