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From temple to church : destruction and renewal of local cultic topography in late antiquity / edited by Johannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel & Ulrich Gotter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman world 0927-7633 ; v. 163.
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 163
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and other religions.
- Temples.
- Religion--History.
- Religion.
- History.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English and German.
- Contents:
- "From temple to church": analysing a late antique phenomenon of transformation / Stephen Emmel, Ulrich Gotter and Johannes Hahn
- Models and evidence in the study of religion in late Roman Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall
- Rechtgläubige-Pagane-Häretiker: Tempelzerstörungen in der Kirchengeschichtsschreibung und das Bild der christlichen Kaiser / Ulrich Gotter
- From temple to cell, from gods to demons: pagan temples in the monastic topography of fourth-century Egypt / David Brakke
- The Christianization of pagan temples in the Greek hagiographical texts / Helen Saradi
- Iconoclasm and Christianization in late antique Egypt: Christian treatments of space and image / David Frankfurter
- Shenoute of Atripe and the Christian destruction of temples in Egypt: rhetoric and reality / Stephen Emmel
- Die Zerstörung der Kulte von Philae: Geschichte und Legende am ersten Nilkatarakt / Johannes Hahn
- The conversion of the temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in context / Angelos Chaniotis
- Continuity and change in the cultic topography of late antique Palestine / Doron Bar
- Modalitäten der Zerstörung und Christianisierung pharaonischer Tempelanlagen / Peter Grossmann
- The conversion of the cult statues: the destruction of the Serapeum 392 A.D. and the transformation of Alexandria into the "Christ-loving" city / Johannes Hahn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9789004131415
- 9004131418
- OCLC:
- 213318465
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