Religious inventions : ancient Mediterranean practice and the study of religion / edited by William Arnal and Erin K. Vearncombe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arnal, William E. (William Edward), 1967- editor.

Vearncombe, Erin K., editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 6.

Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Church history.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

Mediterranean Region--Religion--History--To 1500.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Figures and Tables

1 Religious Inventions: Introduction

Section one: Religion as a Category of Study

2 Inventing Religion in Elephantine: Judeans and Egyptians under Persian Hegemony

3 Second-Century Constructions of Christianity

4 Theorizing Historical Moments of Religion: Paul and His Followers

5 Response: Religion as a Category of Study

Section two: Undoing Text

6 Monsters, Hybridity, and Text: A Cautionary Tale

7 As it Was Written: The Gospel of Matthew as a Symbolic Artifact

8 Would You Know a Jewish Gospel if You Saw It? Ignatius, Jerome, Eusebius, and the Search for the Hebrew Gospel

9 Do as I Say Not as They Do: Social Construction in the Epistle of Barnabas through Canonical Interpretation and Ritual

10 Witnessing Disaster: Mark's Gospel as a Monument to the Catastrophe of Jesus's Death

11 Response: Undoing Text

Section three: Practice and Identity

12 "Hybridity," "Identity," and the Ancient Mediterranean World

13 Jesus, Paul, and the Geography of Magic

14 Spontaneous or Solicited? A Methodological Problem in the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy as Divination

15 Trauma, Meaning-Making, and Christian Identity Formation in Justin's Dialogue with Trypho

16 Jubilees and Jewishness in Hasmonean Judea: Linking Text and Context in the Study of Jewish Identity with the Help of Ethnic Studies

17 Scripture and the Social Formation of "Displaced" Religious Communities

18 Response: Practice and Identity

19 The Enchanted World of Antiquity: On Incommensurability, Religion, and Comparison

20 Comparison and (Dis-)Continuity: The Case of Philo and the Alexandrian Christians

21 Euergetism in Comparative Perspective: Did the "Ideal Benefactor" Exist in Christ Groups?

22 Is It Culture All the Way Down?.

23 The Universality of Spirit Possession Revisited

24 Response: Comparison

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Religious inventions.

ISBN:

9780228024484

022802448X

9780228024477

0228024471

Publisher Number:

40032819446

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