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«Impulsore Chresto»
Opposition to Christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50-250 AD
Häftad, 2007
1122 kr
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Impulsore Chresto reassesses opposition to Christianity AD 50-250. The Roman authorities‘ persecutions have caught the attention of both the public, intrigued by martyrs, and scholars, arguing that executions were relatively rare. This is not challenged, but the executions are placed in context as …
Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Christian Apologetics
Av Jörg Ulrich, Anders-Christian Jacobsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
351 kr
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This book contains the contributions to a workshop on apologetics in early Christianity which took place at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford in the summer of 2007. The workshop was arranged by scholars from Germany, Finland and Denmark who had for some time …
Contextualising Early Christian Martyrdom
Av Jakob Engberg, Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1346 kr
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This collection of essays examines Christian martyrdom by locating it in different historical, cultural and social contexts. Chronologically, the book analyses traditions predating the Christian martyr literature and ideology proper, and studies an example of how this ideology was transformed in …
Das Gebet als Aufstieg zu Gott
Untersuchungen zur Schrift "de oratione" des Evagrius Ponticus
Inbunden, 2011
667 kr
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Evagrius Ponticus (345-399 n.Chr.) beschreibt in seiner Schrift de oratione das Gebet als eine innere Haltung. Ausführlich geht er auf die Voraussetzungen des Gebets ein und auch die Bedrohungen, die er als «Dämonen» bezeichnet. Durch die Untersuchungen der Autorin werden insbesondere zur Frage …
Narrated Reality
The "Historia ecclesiastica" of Eusebius of Caesarea
Inbunden, 2011
712 kr
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The Historia ecclesiastica of Eusebius took part in the cultural negotiations that attended the turn to a post-Constantinian Christianity. The immediate success of Historia ecclesiastica indicates its success in legitimizing the change process, and in conferring upon the Christian readers a past in …
In Defence of Christianity
Early Christian Apologists
Av Jakob Engberg, Anders-Christian Jacobsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
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In Defence of Christianity examines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided in four parts. Part I provides an introduction to apology and apologetics in antiquity, an overview of the early Christian apologists, and an outline of their argumentation. The nine …
Recasting Moses
The Memory of Moses in Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives in Ancient Judaism and 4th-Century Christianity
Inbunden, 2012
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The political and social changes that occurred with the transformation of the Roman Empire into a Roman Christian Empire and with the bishops’ new social position as imperial bishops called for new literary representations of the ideal Christian leader. In this struggle, the figure of Moses turned …
«For it is Written»
Essays on the Function of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity
Av Jan Dochhorn
Inbunden, 2012
483 kr
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This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the function of scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity. It is a result of the cooperation between the Center for the Study of Antiquity and Christianity (C-SAC) at the University of Aarhus and international scholars. Special attention is …
Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation
Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity
Av Jörg Ulrich, Anders-Christian Jacobsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
915 kr
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This volume assembles written versions of lectures presented and discussed at the conference «Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation – Discursive Fights Over Religious Traditions In Antiquity» held at Aarhus and Ebeltoft in Denmark in the spring of 2010. Most of the religious texts studied in the …
Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity
Shifting Identities – Creating Change
Inbunden, 2014
898 kr
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For decades, Arthur D. Nock’s famous definition of conversion and his distinction between conversion and adhesion have greatly influenced our understanding of individual religious transformation in the ancient world. The articles in this volume – originally presented as papers at the conference …
Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity
Av Julia Hillner, Jakob Engberg
Inbunden, 2016
835 kr
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This volume results from the international research project ‘The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325‒c.600)’. The project is a collaboration between the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, the Seminar für Kirchengeschichte at the University of Halle, and the …
Relating through Prayer
Identity Formation in Early Christianity
Av Maria Louise Munkholt Christensen, Anders-Christian Jacobsen
Inbunden, 2019
892 kr
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This book analyses early Christian texts on prayer. These texts provide a rich perspective on the formation of Christian identity in the early church. The primary sources investigated are the four earliest known treatises on prayer in Christian history, written by Clement, Origen, Tertullian and …
Knowledge, Language and Intellection from Origen to Gregory Nazianzen
A Selective Survey
Inbunden, 2017
807 kr
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Epistemological theories of the patristic authors seldom attract attention of the researchers. This unfortunate status quo contrasts with a crucial place of the theory of knowledge in the thought of such prominent authors as Origen and the Cappadocian fathers. This book surveys the patristic …
Mobility and Exile at the End of Antiquity
Av Jörg Ulrich
Inbunden, 2018
812 kr
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This volume explores how forced movement and exile of clerics developed over time and ultimately came to shape interactions between the late-antique Roman Empire, the Byzantine, post-Roman, and early medieval worlds. It investigates the politics and legal mechanics of ecclesiastical exile, the …
Rhetoric of the Pious Empire and the Rhetoric of Flight from the World
A Socio-Rhetorical Reading of the Life of Melania the Younger
Av Kyung-mee Jeon, Jörg Ulrich
Inbunden, 2018
758 kr
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This book aims to shed new light on asceticism of the heart and imperial Christian aspects in the ascetic life of Melania the Younger, in particular, and of a specific group of Roman aristocratic ascetic women, in general. The author draws on the examination of rhetorical language and textual …
Von Justin bis zu Hildegard von Bingen
Ausgewaehlte Aufsaetze von Joerg Ulrich zur Geschichte und Theologie des Christentums in Antike und Mittelalter
Inbunden, 2020
862 kr
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Dieser Band versammelt 18 ausgewählte Aufsätze des Kirchenhistorikers Jörg Ulrich, welche sein forscherisches Schaffen im zurückliegenden Vierteljahrhundert widerspiegeln. Ein besonderer Fokus der Aufsätze liegt auf der für die Patristik zentralen Epoche des 4. – 5. Jahrhunderts, speziell auf der …
Hieronymus' Witwenbuechlein fuer Salvina (epist. 79)
Text, Uebersetzung, Einfuehrung und Kommentar
Av Philip Polcar, Peter Gemeinhardt
Inbunden, 2021
1006 kr
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Was schreibt man einer trauernden, kaiserlichen Witwe? Wie macht man ihr ein asketisches Leben schmackhaft und bringt sie dazu, obwohl man sie persönlich nicht kennt, mit einem Freundschaft zu schließen? Derartige Fragen dürfte sich Hieronymus gestellt haben, als er sich ca. im Jahre 399 brieflich …
Explorations in Augustine's Anthropology
Av Fabio Dalpra, Anders-Christian Jacobsen
Inbunden, 2021
722 kr
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What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo? This question has occupied a group of researchers from Brazil and Europe and has been explored at two workshops during which the contributors to this volume have discussed anthropological themes in Augustine’s vast corpus. In this volume, the …
Progress in Origen and the Origenian Tradition
Av Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Gaetano Lettieri m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
828 kr
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Progress is a structural and systematic concept in the thought of Origen of Alexandria, which represents one of the most advanced syntheses of the Christian reading of the Old and the New Testaments’ legacy and the classical paideia, as well as a rational critique towards every kind of static …
From Alexandria to Jerusalem (and Beyond)
Essays in Honor of Lorenzo Perrone
Av Antonio Cacciari, Emiliano Fiori m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1512 kr
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The volume gathers contributions from both junior and senior scholars, as well as former students, colleagues, and friends of Lorenzo Perrone. Their studies have evolved in dialogue with him and his work, covering research fields such as Bible Studies and Origen, Classics and Patrology, ancient and …
Pentateuchauslegung Bei Origenes Und Den Fruehen Rabbinen
Av Anna Tzvetkova-Glaser, Anders-Christian Jacobsen
Inbunden, 2010
1008 kr
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Origenes ist der erste christliche Exeget, der eine systematische Kommentierung aller alttestamentlichen Schriften unternahm. Origenes war in Alexandria und Cäsarea tätig, wo er Kontakte zu jüdischen Gelehrten unterhielt. Anhand der Analyse der Pentateuchauslegung werden sowohl rabbinische …
Martyrium
Variationen Und Potenziale Eines Diskurses Im Zweiten Jahrhundert
Av Nicole Hartmann, Jörg Ulrich
Inbunden, 2013
572 kr
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Ausgehend von der Annahme einer stark ausdifferenzierten Jesus-Bewegung bietet diese Studie eine dekonstruktive Lektüre von Texten aus dem zweiten Jahrhundert, in denen Hinrichtungen von Jesus-Anhängern als Martyrium überhöht werden. Sie konzentriert sich dabei auf die Aushandlungsprozesse …
