Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity / Leif E. Vaage, editor.
| Other author | Vaage, Leif E. |
| Other author | Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, |
| Description | xvi, 324 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in Christiantiy and Judaism /Études sur le christianisme et le Judaïsmejudaisme ; 18 Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 18. ^A193154 |
| Contents | Ancient religious rivalries and the struggle for success: Christians, Jews, and others in the early Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage -- Declining polis? Religious rivalries in ancient civic context / Philip A. Harland -- Rivalry and defection / Stephen G. Wilson -- Is the pagan fair fairly dangerous? Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity / Reena Basser -- My rival, my fellow: conceptual and methodological prolegomena to mapping inter-religious relations in 2nd- and 3rd-century CE Levantine society using the evidence of early rabbinic texts / Jack N. Lightstone -- "The field God has assigned": geography and mission in Paul / Terence L. Donaldson -- Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy / Steve Mason -- On becoming a Mithraist: new evidence for the propagation of the mysteries / Roger Beck -- Rodney Stark and "the mission to the Jews" / Adele Reinhartz -- "Look how they love one another": early Christian and pagan care for the sick and other charity / Steven C. Muir -- Religious market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's pagan competition / Roger Beck -- Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire / Leif E. Vaage. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references ( p. 279-304) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006411719 |
| ISBN | 0889204497 |
| ISBN | 9780889204492 |
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