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

the ‘ascension’ is nothing more than this appearance of the risen Christ to his assembled disciples.”). At most, to speak as Pau ...

same manner you observed (etheasasthe) him going into heaven” (Acts 1:9–11). Such eyewitness testimony was considered essential ...

inate any suggestion that Jesus’ ascension was a Roman imperial apothe- osis. In this case, the “hereticalcorruption of Scriptur ...

appearance marks the beginning of the end of the end of things, is explic- itly an imperial figure, having written on his garmen ...

lated: “In the home region of the apocalyptic seer [of Revelation] there were probably Persian inscriptions, perhaps partly of t ...

On the basis of this comparison, Aune concludes: “The author’s use [in Revelation] of the royal/imperial edict form is part of h ...

the context for such a reading. Moreover, insofar as the various writings of the Pauline Corpus all were read soon in the light ...

rial politics. Thus, the main difference between Colossians and Constantine would finally be a matter of degree, not of kind (cf ...

Christian apocalyptic literature for such technical usage. If there is any ‘technical’ use of parousiait appears in the terminol ...

whose possession (eis peripoiêsin sôtêrias) they have been divinely destined “through our kyriosJesus Christ” (cf. also 1 Thess. ...

stance, since the salvation in view is essentially the same. In the end, Koester’s claim is an empty one: a negative assertion, ...

ation. Reference to the Cross or its equivalent is hardly a leitmotif of the dif- ferent Pauline writings: mention is made of it ...

autonomous adjudication of intramural conflict “in complete independ- ence of ‘the world,’” which is to say, among the “holy” co ...

In addition, R.A. Horsley proposes that (i) the prohibition of food- offered-to-idols in 1 Corinthians 8–10, (ii) Paul’s refusal ...

to participate in projects of aid to total strangers. Paul’s broad generaliza- tions about support from Achaia and Macedonia are ...

the dominant social structures and ideological expectations of the Roman Empire. Rather, I suggest, earliest Christianity’s intr ...

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