Rosenblum / Vuong / DesRosiers Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-647-55068-8
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 257 Seiten

Reihe: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements.

The essays in this work examine issues related to authority, identity, or change in religious and philosophical traditions of the third century CE. This century is of particular interest because of the political and cultural developments and conflicts that occurred during this period, which in turn drastically changed the social and religious landscape of the Roman world. The specific focus of this volume edited by Jordan D. Rosenblum, Lily Vuong, and Nathaniel DesRosiers is to explore these major creative movements and to examine their strategies for developing and designating orthodoxies and orthopraxies.Contributors were encouraged to analyze or construct the intersections between parallel religious and philosophical communities of the third century, including points of contact either between or among Jews, Christians, pagans, and philosophers. As a result, the discussions of the material contained within this volume are both comparative in nature and interdisciplinary in approach, engaging participants who work in the fields of Religious Studies, Philosophy, History and Archaeology. The overall goal was to explore dialogues between individuals or groups that illuminate the mutual competition and influence that was extant among them, and to put forth a general methodological framework for the study of these ancient dialogues. These religious and philosophical dialogues are not only of great interest and import in their own right, but they also can help us to understand how later cultural and religious developments unfolded.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosenblum, Jordan D.

Vuong, Lily

Desrosiers, Nathaniel

Weitere Mitwirkende

DesRosiers, Nathaniel

Kraemer, Ross S.

Rosenblum, Jordan D.

Vuong, Lily

Urbano, Arthur P.

Ullucci, Daniel C.

Stern, Karen B.

McGowan, Andrew B.

McGinnis, Kevin M.

Marx-Wolf, Heidi

Latham, Jacob A.

Krulak, Todd C.

Klein, Gil P.

Finkelstein, Ari B.

Berzon, Todd S.

Gardner, Gregg E.

Larson, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title Page;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Body;10
6;Acknowledgements;10
7;Introduction;11
8;I: Assessing Religious Competition in the Third Century : Methods and Approaches;20
8.1;Daniel C. Ullucci: What Did He Say? The Ideas of Religious Experts and the 99 %;22
8.2;Heidi Marx-Wolf: Pythagoras the Theurgist. Porphyry and Iamblichus on the Role of Ritual in the Philosophical Life;33
8.3;Arthur P. Urbano: Narratives of Decline and Renewal in the Writing of Philosophical History;40
8.4;Steven J. Larson: The Trouble with Religious Tolerance in Roman Antiquity;51
8.5;Kevin M. McGinnis: Sanctifying Interpretation. The Christian Interpreter as Priest in Origen;61
8.6; Andrew B. McGowan: Rehashing the Leftovers of Idols. Cyprian and Early Christian Constructions of Sacrifice ;70
9;II: Ritual Space and Practice;80
9.1;Gregg E. Gardner: Competitive Giving in the Third Century CE. Early Rabbinic Approaches to Greco-Roman Civic Benefaction;82
9.2;Nathaniel P. DesRosiers: Oath and Anti-Oath. Alternating Forms of Community Building in the Third Century;94
9.3;Jordan D. Rosenblum and Daniel C. Ullucci: Qualifying Rabbinic Ritual Agents. Cognitive Science and the Early Rabbinic Kitchen;106
9.4;Lily C. Vuong: The Temple Persists. Collective Memories of the Jewish Temple in Christian Narrative Imagination;116
9.5;Jacob A. Latham: Battling Bishops, the Roman Aristocracy, and the Contestation of Civic Space in Late Antique Rome;127
10;III: Modes of Competition;140
10.1;Karen B. Stern: Inscription as Religious Competition in Third-Century Syria;142
10.2;Gil P. Klein: Spatial Struggle. Intercity Relations and the Topography of Intra-Rabbinic Competition;154
10.3;Ari Finkelstein: The Use of Jews in Julian’s Program. “Dying for the Law” in the Letter to Theodorus – A Case Study;169
10.4;Todd S. Berzon: Heresiology as Ethnography. Theorising Christian Difference;180
10.5;Todd C. Krulak: The Damascian Dichotomy. Contention and Concord in the History of Late Platonism ;193
10.6;Ross S. Kraemer: Gendering (the) Competition. Religious Competition in the Third Century : Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World;201
11;List of Abbreviations;221
12;Collected Bibliography;224
13;List of Contributors;248
14;Index ;253