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Religionsgeschichten : Römer, Juden und Christen im römischen Reich
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ISBN: 9783161493133 Year: 2007 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

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Imperator et episcopus : zum Verhältnis von Staatsgewalt und christlicher Kirche zwischen dem 1. Konzil von Nicaea (325) und dem 1. Konzil von Konstantinopel (381)
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ISBN: 3515082476 Year: 2003 Volume: 8 Publisher: Stuttgart : Steiner,

The making of a Christian aristocracy : social and religious change in the western Roman Empire
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ISBN: 0674006410 0674016033 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. London : Harvard University Press,

Communities of the blessed : social environment and religious change in Northern Italy, AD 200-400
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ISBN: 0198269838 0191683825 1280446080 9780198269830 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press


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Military service and the integration of Jews into the Roman empire
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ISBN: 9789004506756 9004506756 9789004507258 9004507256 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : ©2022 Brill,

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"According to Raúl González Salinero, the plurality of religious expressions within Judaism prior to the predominance of the rabbinical current disproves the assumption according to which some Jewish customs and precepts (especially the Sabbath) prevented Jews from joining the Roman army without renouncing their ancestral culture. The military exemption occasionally granted to the Jews by the Roman authorities was compatible with their voluntary enlistment (as it was in the Hellenistic armies) in order to obtain Roman citizenship. As the sources attest, Judaism did not pose any insurmountable obstacle to integration of the Jews into the Roman world. They achieved a noteworthy presence in the Roman army by the fourth century CE, at which time the Church's influence over imperial power led to their exclusion from the militia armata"--


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Les premiers siècles chrétiens : du collège apostolique à l'empire carolingien
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ISBN: 2204021911 9782204021913 Year: 1984 Publisher: Paris Editions du Cerf

Gruppenreligionen im römischen Reich : Sozialformen, Grenzziehungen und Leistungen
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ISBN: 9783161491283 3161491289 Year: 2007 Volume: 43 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

Das lateinische Christentum und die antike pagane Bildung
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ISSN: 14363003 ISBN: 9783161493058 3161493052 Year: 2007 Volume: 41 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

Expectations of justice in the age of Augustine
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ISBN: 0812239873 0812203038 9780812239874 9780812239871 Year: 2007 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Augustine, bishop of Hippo between 395 and 430, and his fellow bishops lived and worked through massive shifts in politics, society, and religion. Christian bishops were frequently asked to serve as intellectuals, legislators, judges, and pastors-roles and responsibilities that often conflicted with one another and made it difficult for bishops to be effective leaders. Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine examines these roles and the ways bishops struggled to fulfill (or failed to fulfill) them, as well as the philosophical conclusions they drew from their experience in everyday affairs, such as oath-swearing, and in the administration of penance. Augustine and his near contemporaries were no more or less successful at handling the administration of justice than other late antique or early medieval officials. When bishops served in judicial capacities, they experienced firsthand the complex inner workings of legal procedures and social conflicts, as well as the fallibility of human communities. Bishops represented divine justice while simultaneously engaging in and even presiding over the sorts of activities that animated society-business deals, litigations, gossip, and violence-but also made justice hard to come by. Kevin Uhalde argues that serving as judges, even informally, compelled bishops to question whether anyone could be guaranteed justice on earth, even from the leaders of the Christian church. As a result, their ideals of divine justice fundamentally changed in order to accommodate the unpleasant reality of worldly justice and its failings. This philosophical shift resonated in Christian thought and life for centuries afterward and directly affected religious life, from the performance of penance to the way people conceived of the Final Judgment.

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