The crucible of religion in late antiquity : selected essays / Guy G. Stroumsa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stroumsa, Guy G., author.

Series:

Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 124.

Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 124

Standardized Title:

Essays Selections.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Religion and culture--Rome.

Religion and culture.

Religion.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

x, 305 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2021]

Summary:

"The religious revolution of late antiquity and its intertwined religious history are reflected in a broad array of new forms of religious belief and practice, of which Christianity is only the most perceptible one. It is represented in the passage from polytheistic systems to monotheistic and dualist ones, as well as in the move from rituals centred upon sacrifices in temples to rituals established upon scriptures, in churches, synagogues, or mosques. This double dynamism of beliefs and rituals sheds light on the transformations of religious ethos. Guy G. Stroumsa's two-part volume reflects this double argument. The essays all focus on central aspects, such as in Part I on mental aspects of religion in the Roman Empire, as expressed in early Christian texts and traditions, and in Part II on religious communication across the empire's cultures and communities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Christ's Laughter: Visions, Docetism, Martyrdom

1. Myth into Metaphor: The Case of Prometheus

2. The Early Christian Fish Symbol Reconsidered

3. The Jewish and Christian Afterlives of Orphism

4. To See or not to See: On the Early History of the Visio Beatified

5. Mystere juif et mystere chretien: le mot et la chose

6. In illo loco: Paradise Lost in Early Christianity

7. Christ's Laughter: Docetic Origins Reconsidered

8. The Greek and Jewish Origins of Docetism (with Ronnie Goldstein)

9. Sacrifice and Martyrdom in the Roman Empire

10. Les martyrs chretiens et l'inversion des emotions

pt. II A New Axial Age? Sacrifice, Intolerance, Manichaeism

11. The End of Sacrifice Revisited

12. Les sages semitises

13. Cultural Memory in Early Christianity: Clement of Alexandria on the History of Religions

14. Moses the Lawgiver: The Idea of Civil Religion in Patristic Thought

15. Axial Religion in the Late Antique Scriptural Galaxy

16. Christian Intolerance and its Roots

17. Titus of Bostra and Alexander of Lycopolis Against Manichaean Dualism

18. The Words and the Works: Augustine and Faustus

19. Anti-Manichaean Polemics: Late Antiquity to Islam (with Sarah Stroumsa).

Notes:

"This volume includes a number of texts written over a number of decades"-- preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783161606915

3161606914

OCLC:

1259535273

Publisher Number:

99989752763