Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
exercise when we recall that Josephus is writing for Gentiles: he is trash- ing their own native traditions, and he expects to g ...
Incidentally, it is a mistake to see Josephus’s notice that the Phar- isees are lenient in punishment (A.J.13.294) as some kind ...
Judean laws do not depict gods in human form or as having human pas- sions, as do the traditions of other nations. InContra Apio ...
to imitate our harmony (homonoia) with one another, distribution of goods....The most marvellous thing is that it is without the ...
Genre of Contra Apionem We move now to considerations of genre. Genre is a notoriously slippery con- cept, but in the case of Co ...
curus (10.28.13)—but none of these texts has survived either. Cicero’s frag- mentaryHortensiusis known largely for its role in p ...
On the way to this generic definition, Jordan makes some particular observations that bear on Contra Apionem.He notes that the a ...
I am truly wealthy; instead of being ignorant and blind, I have become sound?” (1). Character A then implores him not to hoard j ...
believe and to emulate God’s goodness (10.4), just as Josephus had claimed that Judaism teaches participation in God’s virtue (A ...
It seems to me that no generic distinction can be drawn between these examples of philosophic protreptic and Josephus’s Contra A ...
Gentile readers not to remain “casual visitors,” as he says, but to come and live under Judean laws. Second, I have argued that ...
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INTRODUCTION Against the charge of proselytizing, no religion of antiquity can mount a more credible defence than Mithraism. It ...
the dynamic cults advertised themselves and proclaimed (I use the word advisedly) their gods. They were also the occasions of re ...
Whether it is a matter of actuality or of image, there is in this matter of anticipated and elicited crowd reaction no functiona ...
present this reproductive imperative as motivated by, or leading to, height- ened prestige and/or power for the group or as an a ...
phyry (Antr. nymph.6) to the effect that the mithraeum is a cavelike struc- ture because it is intended as a “model of the unive ...
some did, some didn’t. This is merely a truism about life in any religion with an ethical component. What matters is that the mo ...
What it was about the Mysteries of Mithras that attracted conformists in the middle and lower echelons of the empire’s key struc ...
burst of growth. I should first say something, then, about the stage at which Mithraism was a real novelty, when presumably thos ...
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