Jerusalem and Athens: Cultural Transformation in Late Antiquity

Judge, E A

Jerusalem and Athens: Cultural Transformation in Late Antiquity - Tubingen, Germany Mohr Siebeck 2010 - 352p 24 cm. - Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament - 265 . - Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; 265. .

"Occasional papers of E.A. Judge": p. [315]-321. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Classical antiquity and Christianity. The beginning of religious history -- Group religions in the Roman Empire -- Synagogue and church in the Roman Empire : the insoluble problem of toleration -- The impact of Paul's gospel on ancient society -- "Antike und Christentum" : some recent work from Cologne -- "Antike und Christentum" : towards a definition of the field -- Athens and Jerusalem -- Documents of late antiquity. Jews, proselytes and God-fearers club together -- A state schoolteacher makes a salary bid -- The ecumenical synod of Dionysiac artists -- The puzzle of Christian presence in Egypt before Constantine -- The earliest use of monachos for "monk" (P.Coll.Youtie 77) and the origins of monasticism -- Fourth-century monasticism in the papyri -- The quest for mercy in late antiquity -- The magical use of scripture in the papyri -- From ancient to modern. The conversion of Rome : ancient sources of modern social tensions -- Christian innovation and its contemporary observers -- The interaction of biblical and classical education in the fourth century -- Conversion in the ancient world -- The absence of religion, even in Ammianus? -- Biblical sources of historical method -- Ancient beginnings of the modern world.

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Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity and culture--History--Greece--Athens--To 1500.
Christianity and culture--History--Jerusalem--To 1500.


Jerusalem--Civilization.
Athens (Greece)--Civilization.

C30.1 / J891

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