Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
a filiation, much like a manuscript stemma, in which groups of monu- ments could be ordered as to their derivation and an archet ...
don 1996a). It had been deliberately hidden in antiquity, but unfortunately not in its proper mithraeum. Though Virunum is fairl ...
In a separate article, I have explored the doctrinal implications of the festival of the “mortality” and the coincidence, if suc ...
the bronze album,on the assumption that its blocks of names represent annual recruitment. MITHRAISM AND THE MITHRAEUM The princi ...
Here again, then, we have a radical difference from early Christian communities, in whose propagation physical structures played ...
no net increase in the Mithraic community in Virunum. Simply, a new album,the marble one, was started, when the old one, the bro ...
The great majority of members in Virunum were Roman citizens, whether freeborn or freed. Indeed, among the ninety-eight, there i ...
list, we may infer that he was not yet a Paterat the time of the original ded- ication, but he must have been elevated to that r ...
Five years later, Flavius Nectareus was co-opted, already a Pater,to suc- ceed Iulius Secundinus or Trebius Alfius, whichever on ...
FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS One would like to know whether family relationships played much of a role in the recruitment of the Virunum ...
nomen, was a freedman. We know that there was a third generation of male Lydacii, since one of Ingenuus’s dedications is for the ...
behaviour. The external case is more interesting. Were there occasions when the Mithraists’ ideal world conflicted either with t ...
Part III RISE? ...
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INTRODUCTION Unlike most books, Rodney Stark’s The Rise of Christianityappeared with two different subtitles. Taken together, th ...
of other factors. By contrast, Stark draws inferences from modern social sci- entific theories, particularly his own formal theo ...
My starting point, in this chapter, is the assumption that, if a success- ful Christian mission to the Jews continued until the ...
nine fragments found in Egypt suggests that the Gospel of John may have circulated widely there. C.H. Dodd states that “whatever ...
Messiah of Israel (e.g., van Unnik 1959; Robinson 1959–1960; Carson 1987). This position is based on a number of points, includi ...
even such individualists may have heard about or been attracted to Chris- tianity through other members of their own family or o ...
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