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Priests and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians

Author : Beate Dignas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042929746
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Priests and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians written by Beate Dignas and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The emperor Julian pointed out that the duties of priesthood were better understood among 'the impious Galileans' (i.e. Christians) than among his pagan contemporaries. Like the emperor, the essays in this volume look in both directions. Its pages are populated by very diverse figures: Plutarch, Aelius Aristides, Alexander of Abonouteichos, Daniel the Stylite, Gregory of Nazianzus, Shenoute of Atripe, Mani, Muhammad, and a host of anonymous Greek and Roman priests, prophets, and diviners. The priests of second temple Judaism are considered too. Both in the Greco-Roman and the early Christian worlds the neat division between priests and prophets proves hard to sustain. But in terms of fame and influence a strong contrast emerges between Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian prophets; this is why it is only among Jews and Christians that 'false prophets' are feared. Two recurrent preoccupations are the relation of priests and prophets to secular power, and the priest/prophet not as reality but as idea, an imagined figure. Leading scholars of the religions of antiquity come together in this wide-ranging and innovative volume."--

Priest and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians

Author : Robert Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Priest and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians written by Robert Parker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion & Power

Author : Douglas R. Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508263X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Religion & Power written by Douglas R. Edwards and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Her Share of the Blessings

Author : Ross Shepard Kraemer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198023138
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 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.

Pagans, priests and prophets

Author : David St. Clair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Pagans, priests and prophets written by David St. Clair and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Justin Martyr and the Jews

Author : Rokeah
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004421424
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Justin Martyr and the Jews written by Rokeah and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin Martyr, a second-century Gentile Christian apologist, was active in the Christian-Jewish propaganda war to convert each other and the pagans. He radicalized the ideas of St. Paul on the divine Election, Abraham, the Pentateuch, and the Gentiles. Justin's background, sources, and thought, and his place in the inter-religious propaganda war, are discussed, as are the irreconcilable views of Jesus and Paul on the Pentateuch and the Gentiles. Justin Martyr and the Jews considers the place of Paul and Justin's teachings in today's Christian-Jewish dialogue about the roots of early Christian Antisemitism, showing that the presuppositions of Paul and Justin must be abandoned if Christians and Jews today are to reach true understanding. As part of the search for such understanding, recent scholarly literature has been concerned with pre- and post-Holocaust inter-religious relations, as well as with the roots of Christian Antisemitism. Some scholars have endeavoured to show that Pauline teachings were misunderstood, and thereby exonerate Paul from the responsibility for Christian persecutions of Jews through the ages. These scholars have also attempted to make Paul a bridge between Christians and Jews in their modern dialogue. The present writer argues that this interpretation of Pauline teaching, followed and even radicalized by Justin, is unfounded.

Response to the Other

Author : Robert P. Vande Kappelle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725285754
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Response to the Other written by Robert P. Vande Kappelle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings seek meaning and purpose. To do so, we tell stories about the past, which we call history, and stories about what will occur in the future, constructed from memory and imagination. History is not a subject we study, but one we live. History is our medium, as water is to fish. No period of antiquity is more informative and influential for Western civilization than the Greco-Roman, the period from the time of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Roman Empire, an age that saw the emergence of Judaism and Christianity--twin traditions shaped against the background of pagan dominance. The meeting between Jew and Greek, Christian and pagan, revolutionized the ancient world. It represented a crucial moment in the history of Western society, when politics, economics, culture, and religion took a new turn. In time, these separate streams mingled and merged, forming the single and ever-widening current that gave birth to modernity. Moving against the stream of religious exclusivism, this book does not seek to further the cause of one particular religious perspective, but rather to gain insight on how ancient pagans, Jews, and Christians interacted with one another. This study advances contemporary attempts at dialogue and cooperation, enabling people of differing agendas to focus their energy on finding solutions to problems plaguing our planet. Response to the Other has much to offer specialists and non-specialists alike. This work can be used as a study guide, the questions at the end of each chapter suitable for individual or group use.

Beacon Lights of History: The old pagan civilization. Jewish heroes and prophets

Author : John Lord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beacon Lights of History: The old pagan civilization. Jewish heroes and prophets written by John Lord and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pagans and Christians

Author : Robin Lane Fox
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( 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.

Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity

Author : Hans-Josef Klauck
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567089625
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity written by Hans-Josef Klauck and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many forms of magic and paganism were practiced at the time of Jesus. What were these practices, and how did the first Christians react to them?Hans-Josef Klauck, an expert in the cultic practices of the region, describes this world into which Christianity was born and relates to it the many experiences of the first Christians recorded in Acts. Peter, for example, encounters the Samaritan magician Simon; Paul meets the Jewish magician Bar-Jesus; the people in Lystra want to offer a sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas; a soothsaying slave girl is the occasion of conflict in Philippi; in Athens, Paul finds the city full of idols but also discovers an altar 'to an unknown god'; in Ephesus, some burn their books of magic formulae, while other provoke a riot in the name of Artemis.Professor Klauck provides a fascinating account of these phenomena and their significance for Christianity historically and today.Available November 2000.

Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161544507
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Jan N. Bremmer aims to bring together the worlds of early Christianity and those of ancient history and classical literature - worlds that still all too rarely interlock. Contextualising the life and literature of the early Christians in their Greco-Roman environment, he focusses on four areas. A first section looks at more general aspects of early Christianity: the name of the Christians, their religious and social capital, prophecy and the place of widows and upper-class women in the Christian movement. Second, the chronology and place of composition of the early apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and Pseudo-Clementines are newly determined by paying close attention to their doctrinal contents, but also, innovatively, to their onomastics and social vocabulary. The author also analyses the frequent use of magic in the Acts and explains the prominence of women by comparing the Acts to the Greek novel. Third, an investigation into the theme of the tours of hell suggests a new chronological order, shows that the Christian tours were indebted to both Greek and Jewish models, and illustrates that in the course of time the genre dropped a large part of its Jewish heritage. The fourth and final section concentrates on the most famous and intriguing report of an ancient martyrdom: the Passion of Perpetua. It pays special attention to the motivation and visions of Perpetua, which are analyzed not by taking recourse to modern theories such as psychoanalysis, but by looking to the world in which Perpetua lived, both Christian and pagan. It is only by seeing the early Christians in their ancient world that we might begin to understand them and their emerging communities. (Publisher's description).

Pagan Christian Connection Exposed

Author : Michael Rood
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1458797651
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Christian Connection Exposed written by Michael Rood and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can a Jewish Scholar and theologian teach a Christian about Christianity? Plenty! Michael Rood proves God's power w/ hold in your hand evidence. He explodes the long held Christian traditions of Christmas, Easter, and Lent. He uses the Bible to lead us back to irrefutable truths from the Word of God. Referred to as "A Rood Awakening."

Pagan Rome and the Early Christians

Author : Stephen Benko
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203854
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Rome and the Early Christians written by Stephen Benko and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986-07-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early Roman empire, Christians were seen by pagans as overthrowers of ancient gods and destroyers of the prevailing social order. Allegations that Christians recognized each other by secret marks, met at night and made love to one another indiscriminately, worshipped the head of an ass and the genitals of their high priests, and ate children were widely believed. In examining these charges and the Christian response to them, Benko has provided a persuasively argued and refreshing, if controversial, perspective on the confrontation of the pagan and early Christian worlds."[book cover].

The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire

Author : Judith Lieu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135081956
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 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 214 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.

Strange Religion

Author : Nijay K. Gupta
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493444921
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Strange Religion written by Nijay K. Gupta and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fresh and rigorously researched take on Christianity's founding."--Publishers Weekly The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions of the ancient world. Award-winning author, blogger, speaker, and New Testament teacher Nijay Gupta traces the emerging Christian faith in its Roman context in this accessible and engaging book. Christianity would have been seen as radical in the Roman world, but some found this new religion attractive and compelling. The first Christians dared to be different, pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable, transformed how people thought about religion, and started a movement that grew like wildfire. Brought to life with numerous images, this book shows how the example of the earliest Christians can offer today's believers encouragement and hope.

Power of the Priests

Author : Sabine Kubisch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311067632X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Power of the Priests written by Sabine Kubisch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people's life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting processes behind this are not substantially studied. Therefore, this volume does not aim to confirm the linkage of religion and politics in general but to investigate its functionalities in political processes. A focus is placed on the political role of religious personnel beyond their religious and cultic tasks and their influence in pre-modern societies from a cross-cultural perspective. Specialists from various disciplines present their research based on case studies. Thereby this interdisciplinary volume covers a wide geographical and chronological range from ancient Egypt in the Bronze Age until medieval England. These papers are organised according to core functions questioning the instrumentalisation of religious personnel.

The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity

Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191059137
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity written by Guy G. Stroumsa and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important characteristic of the Abrahamic movement, often remains outside the mainstream, hidden, as it were, since it generates heresy. The figures of the Gnostic, the Holy man, and the mystic are all sequels of the Israelite prophet. They reflect a mode of religiosity that is characterized by high intensity. It is centripetal and activist by nature and emphasizes sectarianism and polemics, esoteric knowledge, or gnosis and charisma. The other mode of religiosity, obviously much more common than the first one, is centrifugal and irenic. It favours an ecumenical attitude, contents itself with a widely shared faith, or pistis, and reflects, in Weberian parlance, the routinisation of the new religious movement. This is the mode of priests and bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. These two main modes of religion, high versus low intensity, exist simultaneously, and cross the boundaries of religious communities. They offer a tool permitting us to follow the transformations of religion in late antiquity in general, and in ancient Christianity in particular, without becoming prisoners of the traditional categories of Patristic literature. Through the dialectical relationship between these two modes of religiosity, one can follow the complex transformations of ancient Christianity in its broad religious context.