Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
practice. It is also possible that they were Gentiles, who had previously formed an attachment to Judaism and were now wondering ...
Hermas is usually thought to come from Rome some time in the sec- ond century CE, but recently a good case has been made for an ...
And when they defected, they may well have dragged other Christians into difficulty by betraying them to the authorities. Hermas ...
the fugitives, like Cyprian himself, who went into hiding, had their prop- erty confiscated, but made no public denial (3, 4, 1 ...
earlier (Lane Fox 1986, 481–82)—accounts which are deeply suspect for their mirroring of the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ death—she ...
cerity; or perhaps Lucian is close to the truth and he was an egomaniac who obsessively sought the limelight. We cannot know wit ...
second century by Lucian: “Both groups were charged with atheism, sep- arateness and secrecy, misanthropy, social irresponsibili ...
A quite different example, only briefly related in our sources, is the shift of allegiance attributed to Flavius Clemens and his ...
ple, the Jews in 3 Maccabees and the Christians in Hebrews and Hermas, but in other instances this was not the case. Usually onl ...
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INTRODUCTION Fairs in the life of ancient Israel touched every facet of society. Many people were involved in the life of the fa ...
CHARACTERISTICS OF FAIRS Ya r i dis the common term employed in the Toseftaand the Talmuds for the fair.^1 According to Z. Safra ...
sponsor of the event) in order to attract merchants. All fairs during the later empire had to receive permission from the empero ...
Scholars of Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity generally represent the more traditional approach.^3 Even if they are outspoken ...
in the Babylonian Talmud, because it often either draws on Jewish Pales- tinian texts or simply interprets concepts non-literall ...
INTERPRETING THE EXEMPTIONS The contrast between the stricter Mishnaic approach and the material col- lected in the Toseftaand t ...
destroyed by the Romans and rebuilt by Hadrian as a pagan settlement. Church Fathers refer to Jewish slaves being sold there che ...
(1940, 63f) already refers to the pervasive Cynic protests against idolatry. Although the secondary literature refers to scatter ...
Bakhtin’s work shares much regarding the nature of the crowd, viz. fair, which is analogous to Canetti’s description. The carniv ...
RELAXED PROHIBITIONS Safrai claims consistently that R. Yohanan is one of the leaders in relaxing Jewish-pagan prohibitions. How ...
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