Religious competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman world
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Assessing religious competition in the third century: methods and approaches. What did he say? The ideas of religious experts and the 99% / Daniel C. Ullucci -- Pythagoras the Theurgist: Porphyry and Iamblichus on the role of ritual in the philosophical life /...
| Summary: | Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Assessing religious competition in the third century: methods and approaches. What did he say? The ideas of religious experts and the 99% / Daniel C. Ullucci -- Pythagoras the Theurgist: Porphyry and Iamblichus on the role of ritual in the philosophical life / Heidi Marx-Wolf -- Narratives of decline and renewal in the writing of philosophical history / Arthur P. Urbano -- The trouble with religious tolerance in Roman antiquity / Steven J. Larson -- Sanctifying interpretation: the Christian interpreter as priest in Origen / Kevin M. McGinnis -- Cyprian and early Christian constructions of sacrifice / Andrew B. McGowan -- II. Ritual space and practice. Competitive giving in the third century CE: early rabbinic approaches to Greco-Roman civic benefaction / Gregg E. Gardner -- Oath and anti-oath: alternating forms of community building in the third century / Nathaniel P. DesRosiers -- Qualifying rabbinic ritual agents: cognitive science and the early rabbinic kitchen / Jordan D. Rosenblum and Daniel C. Ullucci -- The Temple persists: collective memories of the Jewish Temple in Christian narrative imagination / Lily C. Vuong -- Battling bishops, the Roman aristocracy, and the contestation of civic space in late antique Rome / Jacob A. Latham -- III. Modes of competition. Inscription as religious competition in third-century Syria / Karen B. Stern -- Spatial struggle: intercity relations and topography of intra-rabbinic-competition / Gil P. Klein -- The use of Jews in Julian's program: "dying for the law" in the Letter to Theodorus: a case study / Ari Finkelstein -- Heresiology as ethnography: theorising Christian difference / Todd S. Berzon -- The Damascian dichotomy: contention and concord in the history of late Platonism / Todd C. Krulak -- Gendering (the) competition: religious competition in the third century: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman world / Ross S. Kraemer -- List of abbreviations -- Collected bibliography -- List of contributors -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Bibliogr. S. [223] - 246 |
| ISBN: | 3525550685 |