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Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity [electronic resource] / Leif E. Vaage, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 18. | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 324 p. )ISBN:
  • 9780889205369
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.1 22
LOC classification:
  • BL96 .R45 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Ancient religious rivalries and the struggle for success: Christians, Jews, and others in the early Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage -- Declining polis? Religious rivalries in ancient civic context / Philip A. Harland -- Rivalry and defection / Stephen G. Wilson -- Is the pagan fair fairly dangerous? Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity / Reena Basser -- 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 / Jack N. Lightstone -- "The field God has assigned": geography and mission in Paul / Terence L. Donaldson -- Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy / Steve Mason -- On becoming a Mithraist: new evidence for the propagation of the mysteries / Roger Beck -- Rodney Stark and "the mission to the Jews" / Adele Reinhartz -- "Look how they love one another": early Christian and pagan care for the sick and other charity / Steven C. Muir -- Religious market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's pagan competition / Roger Beck -- Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage.
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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 / Leif E. Vaage -- Declining polis? Religious rivalries in ancient civic context / Philip A. Harland -- Rivalry and defection / Stephen G. Wilson -- Is the pagan fair fairly dangerous? Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity / Reena Basser -- 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 / Jack N. Lightstone -- "The field God has assigned": geography and mission in Paul / Terence L. Donaldson -- Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy / Steve Mason -- On becoming a Mithraist: new evidence for the propagation of the mysteries / Roger Beck -- Rodney Stark and "the mission to the Jews" / Adele Reinhartz -- "Look how they love one another": early Christian and pagan care for the sick and other charity / Steven C. Muir -- Religious market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's pagan competition / Roger Beck -- Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage.