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Christianity and Roman society
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ISBN: 1107157757 1280749903 0511803532 051126514X 0511265867 0511263597 0511317530 0511264402 9780511265860 9780511265143 9780511263590 0511261977 9780511261978 9780511803536 0521633869 0521633109 9780521633109 9780521633864 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing perspectives arising from a changing social and academic culture. Key issues concerning early Christianity are addressed, such as how early Christian accounts of pagans, Jews and heretics can be challenged and the degree to which Christian groups offered support to their members and to those in need. The work examines how non-Christians reacted to the spectacle of martyrdom and to Christian reverence for relics. Questions are also raised about why some Christians encouraged others to abandon wealth, status and gender-roles for extreme ascetic lifestyles and about whether Christian preachers trained in classical culture offered moral education to all or only to the social elite. The interdisciplinary and thematic approach offers the student of early Christianity a comprehensive treatment of its role and influence in Roman society.


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The letters of Gregory the Great
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ISBN: 0888442904 Year: 2004 Volume: 40 Publisher: Toronto Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

The expansion of Christianity : a gazetteer of its first three centuries
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ISBN: 9004131353 9786610467563 9047402324 1280467568 1423714393 9781423714392 9789004131354 9789047402329 9789004131354 9781280467561 6610467560 Year: 2004 Volume: 69 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Brill,

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This volume covers the geographical spread of Christianity in its first three centuries. It is arranged by continents - Asia, Europe and Africa - to show the gradual development of Christian communities down to the Council of Nicaea in 325. The area surveyed stretches from Wales to the borders of India, and from the Northern coasts of the Black Sea to the plains of Morocco. The result is a picture not only of the outward development of early Christianity but of the variety that existed within it as well.

Christianity and Roman society
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ISBN: 0521633109 0521633869 1107157757 051126514X 0511265867 0511317530 0511803532 1280749903 0511263597 0511264402 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing perspectives arising from a changing social and academic culture. Key issues concerning early Christianity are addressed, such as how early Christian accounts of pagans, Jews and heretics can be challenged and the degree to which Christian groups offered support to their members and to those in need. The work examines how non-Christians reacted to the spectacle of martyrdom and to Christian reverence for relics. Questions are also raised about why some Christians encouraged others to abandon wealth, status and gender-roles for extreme ascetic lifestyles and about whether Christian preachers trained in classical culture offered moral education to all or only to the social elite. The interdisciplinary and thematic approach offers the student of early Christianity a comprehensive treatment of its role and influence in Roman society.


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When Judaism and Christianity Began (2 vols) : Essays in Memory of Anthony J. Saldarini
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ISBN: 1280467924 9786610467921 1423712420 9047402901 9781423712428 Year: 2004 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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In these volumes, top scholars in the study of religion celebrate the enduring heritage in learning bequeathed to coming generations by Anthony J. Saldarini (1941-2001). Twenty-nine commemorative essays focus on the topical areas of formative Christianity and Judaism to which Dr. Saldarini devoted his efforts: earliest Christianity, with special attention to the Gospels; Judaism in late antiquity; and the interchange between Judaism and Christianity then and now. So too the disciplines represented in these pages match his history (including archaeology), literature, religion, and theology. Recognizing the standards of learning set by Dr. Saldarini in all of these areas, the colleagues represented in these volumes memorialize him by following in the model he set, of meeting the highest standards of the diverse fields that intersect in the study of Judaic and Christian antiquity.


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Geschiedenis van het vroege christendom : van de jood Jezus van Nazareth tot de Romeinse keizer Constantijn
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ISBN: 9050186378 Year: 2004

The ascension of authorship : attribution and canon formation in jewish, hellenistic, and christian traditions.
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ISBN: 0674016629 9780674016620 Year: 2004 Volume: 49 Publisher: Massachusetts Harvard university press

Christian Gaza in late antiquity
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ISBN: 9004138684 9786610915194 9047405412 1280915196 1429408243 9789004138681 9781429408240 9781280915192 6610915199 9789047405412 Year: 2004 Volume: 3 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

A history of the first christians
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ISBN: 0567084132 056708423X 9780567084132 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Clark International

Playing a Jewish game : Gentile Christian Judaizing in the first and second centuries CE
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ISBN: 1280925604 9786610925605 1554581176 9781554581177 0889204012 9780889204010 9781280925603 6610925607 Year: 2004 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion = Corp. canadienne des Sciences religeuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

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Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews? Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were directed against Gentile Christians. More specifically, it was directed toward Gentile Christian judaizers. These were Christians who combined a commitment to Christianity with adherence in varying degrees to Jewish practices, without viewing such behaviour as contradictory. Several Christian leaders thought that these community members dangerously blurred the boundaries between Christianity and Judaism.

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