The religious history of the Roman Empire : pagans, Jews, and Christians
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The religious history of the Roman Empire : pagans, Jews, and Christians
（Oxford readings in classical studies）
Oxford University Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This collection of papers, many of them either published here in English for the first time or previously available only in specialist libraries, deals with the religious history of the Roman Empire. Written by leading scholars, the essays have contributed to a revolutionary change in our understanding of the religious situation of the time, and illuminate both the world religions of Christianity and Judaism and the religious life of the pagan Empire in which these
developed and which deeply influenced their characters. No knowledge of ancient languages is presupposed, so the book is accessible to all who are interested in the history of this crucial period.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I. CHANGES IN RELIGIOUS LIFE: ROMAN AND CIVIC CULTS
- 1. Roman Religion and the Religion of Empire: Some Reflections on Method
- 2. The Roman Imperial Cult and the Question of Power
- 3. Magic in Roman Law: The Reconstruction of a Crime
- 4. New Combinations and New Statuses: The Indigenous Gods in the Pantheons of the Cities of Roman Gaul
- 5. Hypsistos: A Way of Exalting the Gods in Graeco-Roman Polytheism
- 6. On the Uses and Disadvantages of Divination: Oracles and their Literary Representations in the Time of the Second Sophistic
- II. ELECTIVE CULTS
- 7. Homogeneity and Diversity in the Religions of Rome
- 8. Oriental Mysteries and Cults: A Problem in the History of Religions
- 9. Ritual and Hierarchy in the Mysteries of Mithras
- 10. Community and Community: Reflections on Some Ambiguities Based on the Thiasoi of Roman Egypt
- III. COEXISTENCE OF RELIGIONS, OLD AND NEW
- 11. Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and 'Pagan' Guilds at Hierapolis
- 12. Josephus and Variety in First-Century Judaism
- 13. The Forging of Christian Identity and the Letter To Diognetus
- 14. Purification and its Discontents: Mani's Rejection of Baptism
- 15. Pagans, Polytheists and the Pendulum
- IV. LATE ANTIQUITY
- 16. Early Christianity and the Discourse of Female Desire
- 17. Enjoying the Saints in Late Antiquity
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