Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

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Studies in Christianity and Judaism / Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme : 18 Studies in Christianity and Judaism / Étud ...

Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity Leif E. Vaage,editor Studies in Christianity and Juda ...

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, throu ...

Contents Acknowledgments•vii Preface•ix Abbreviations•xv PA RT I •RIVALRIES? 1 Ancient Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for ...

PART II •MISSION? 6 “The Field God Has Assigned”: Geography and Mission in Paul Terence L. Donaldson• 109 7 The Contra Apionemin ...

First of all, the editor wishes to thank all the contributors to this volume for their ready cooperation and sorely tested patie ...

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This book is about religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. The book is divided into three pa ...

its own characteristics, conditions, complications. All, however, share the same constitutive antinomy, which therefore may func ...

derived from more intimate knowledge of the fields of early Judaism and adjacent paganism. In the second and third chapters, Phi ...

immediate social survival as well as, sometimes, an enduring political pres- ence, if not eventual dominance. Of course, I also ...

Empire, insofar as he makes plain that such activity was notnecessary for at least one ancient and genuinely religious tradition ...

of ancient health care before the advent of Christianity. In the end, it seems to Muir that the Christians did nothing especiall ...

AJAH American Journal of Ancient History AJP American Journal of Philology ANF The Ante-Nicene Fathers ANRW Aufstieg und Niederg ...

JECS Journal of Early Christian Studies JEH Journal of Ecclesiastical History JMS Journal of Mithraic Studies JQR Jewish Quarter ...

Part I RIVALRIES? ...

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