Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity
Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity [electronic resource] /
Leif E. Vaage, editor.
- Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2006.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 324 p. )
- Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 18. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 279-304) and indexes.
Ancient religious rivalries and the struggle for success: Christians, Jews, and others in the early Roman Empire / Declining polis? Religious rivalries in ancient civic context / Rivalry and defection / Is the pagan fair fairly dangerous? Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity / My rival, my fellow: conceptual and methodological prolegomena to mapping inter-religious relations in 2nd- and 3rd-century CE Levantine society using the evidence of early rabbinic texts / field God has assigned": geography and mission in Paul / Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy / On becoming a Mithraist: new evidence for the propagation of the mysteries / Rodney Stark and "the mission to the Jews" / "Look how they love one another": early Christian and pagan care for the sick and other charity / Religious market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's pagan competition / Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage -- Philip A. Harland -- Stephen G. Wilson -- Reena Basser -- Jack N. Lightstone -- Terence L. Donaldson -- Steve Mason -- Roger Beck -- Adele Reinhartz -- Steven C. Muir -- Roger Beck -- Leif E. Vaage. "The
9780889205369
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity and other religions--Roman.
Rome--Religion.
BL96 / .R45 2006
270.1
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 279-304) and indexes.
Ancient religious rivalries and the struggle for success: Christians, Jews, and others in the early Roman Empire / Declining polis? Religious rivalries in ancient civic context / Rivalry and defection / Is the pagan fair fairly dangerous? Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity / My rival, my fellow: conceptual and methodological prolegomena to mapping inter-religious relations in 2nd- and 3rd-century CE Levantine society using the evidence of early rabbinic texts / field God has assigned": geography and mission in Paul / Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy / On becoming a Mithraist: new evidence for the propagation of the mysteries / Rodney Stark and "the mission to the Jews" / "Look how they love one another": early Christian and pagan care for the sick and other charity / Religious market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's pagan competition / Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage -- Philip A. Harland -- Stephen G. Wilson -- Reena Basser -- Jack N. Lightstone -- Terence L. Donaldson -- Steve Mason -- Roger Beck -- Adele Reinhartz -- Steven C. Muir -- Roger Beck -- Leif E. Vaage. "The
9780889205369
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity and other religions--Roman.
Rome--Religion.
BL96 / .R45 2006
270.1