Memory in Jewish, Pagan and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory in Jewish, Pagan and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman World write by Doron Mendels. This book was released on 2004-06-14. Memory in Jewish, Pagan and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ten studies in this book explore the phenomenon of public memory in societies of the Graeco-Roman period. Mendels begins with a concise discussion of the historical canon that emerged in Late Antiquity and brought with it the (distorted) memory of ancient history in Western culture. The following nine chapters each focus on a different source of collective memory in order to demonstrate the patchy and incomplete associations ancient societies had with their past, including discussions of Plato’s Politeia, a site of memory of the early church, and the dichotomy existing between the reality of the land of Israel in the Second Temple period and memories of it.Throughout the book, Mendels shows that since the societies of Antiquity had associations with only bits and pieces of their past, these associations could be slippery and problematic, constantly changing, multiplying and submerging. Memories, true and false, oral and inscribed, provide good evidence for this fluidity.
Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World
Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World write by Jörg Frey. This book was released on 2007. Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book addresses critical issues of the formation and development of Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period. How could Jewish identity be defined? What about the status of women and the image of 'others'? And what about its ongoing influence in early Christianity?
Jews in a Graeco-Roman World
Jews in a Graeco-Roman World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jews in a Graeco-Roman World write by Martin Goodman. This book was released on 1998-12-18. Jews in a Graeco-Roman World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world. The authors make extensive use not only of types of evidence familiar to classicists, such as inscriptions and the writing of Josephus, but also Jewish religious literature, including rabbinic texts. The various studies demonstrate that, although Jews lived to some extent apart from others and with distinctive customs, in many ways this showed the cultural presuppositions and preoccupations of their gentile contemporaries. The book aims to encourage wider use of the Jewish evidence by classicists and will be important for all students of the classical world.
The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire
The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire write by Judith Lieu. This book was released on 2013-04-15. The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the world-wide power of the pagan Romans and later on the emergence of Christianity as an Empire-wide religion. How they coped with these dramatic changes and how they influenced the new forms of religious life that emerged in this period provide the main themes of The Jews Among Pagans and Christians. Essays by the leading scholars in the field together with the introduction by the editors, offer new approaches to understanding the role of Judaism and the pattern of religious interaction characteristic of the period.
Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World
Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World write by Judith Lieu. This book was released on 2006-02-16. Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. Contemporary discussions of identity provide the background to a careful study of early Christian texts from the first two centuries. Judith Lieu shows that there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive.
