TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vaage,Leif E.
ED  - Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity
AV  - BL96 .R45 2006
U1  - 270.1 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Waterloo, Ont.
PB  - Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Roman
KW  - Rome
KW  - Religion
N1  - 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
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