Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World
Title | Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Jörg Frey |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004158383 |
The book addresses critical issues of the formation and development of Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period. How could Jewish identity be defined? What about the status of women and the image of 'others'? And what about its ongoing influence in early Christianity?
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism
Title | The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Erich S. Gruen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2016-09-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110387190 |
This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.
Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World
Title | Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Lieu |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2006-02-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780199291427 |
'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. Contemporary discussions of identity provide the background to a careful study of early Christian texts from the first two centuries. Judith Lieu shows that there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive.
Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World
Title | Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Fine |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2005-06-08 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521844918 |
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Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World
Title | Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Lieu |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2004-05-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199262896 |
Judith Lieu's study explores how a sense of being a Christian was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. By exploring this theme she reveals what made early Christianity so distinctive and separate.
Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World
Title | Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Nathanael J. Andrade |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2013-07-25 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 1107012058 |
This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.
Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
Title | Religious Networks in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Collar |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2013-12-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107043441 |
Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.