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Divination and Philosophy in the Letters of Paul
Häftad, 2024
351 kr
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This book analyses the apostle Paul's claims to receive and interpret knowledge from divine sources within the context of divination in the Graeco-Roman world. Each chapter studies a particular aspect of divination in Paul's letters in comparison with similar phenomena in the Graeco-Roman world, …
Contested Cures
Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine
Inbunden, 2022
1958 kr
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In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures argues that the inevitability of sickness and injury made people willing to experiment with seemingly beneficial techniques, even if they originated in a foreign cultural or …
Contested Cures
Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine
Häftad, 2024
673 kr
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In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures argues that the inevitability of sickness and injury made people willing to experiment with seemingly beneficial techniques, even if they originated in a foreign cultural or …
Divination and Philosophy in the Letters of Paul
Inbunden, 2023
1190 kr
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Winner of the Manfred Lautenschl ger Award for Theological PromiseStudies the topic of divine communication in Paul's letters in the context of Graeco-Roman divinationProvides rigorous historical comparison of Paul with a range of Greek, Roman and Jewish sourcesCritiques conventional theological …
Apocalypse of the Birds
1 Enoch and the Jewish Revolt against Rome
Inbunden, 2023
1203 kr
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Identifies and contextualises a new work within the Animal Apocalypse, dated to the dawn of the First Jewish RevoltIdentifies a new source for the study of the Jewish Revolt, establishing the high hopes of the revolutionaries before the ultimate collapse of the movementPursues a unified and …
Apocalypse of the Birds
1 Enoch and the Jewish Revolt against Rome
Häftad, 2025
313 kr
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This book identifies a new apocalyptic work the Apocalypse of the Birds contained in the Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90), and argues that it is born of the chaotic Jewish-Christian world of the first-century CE. Through close analysis of texts and manuscripts in Ge'ez, Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew, …
Christian Beginnings
A Study in Ancient Mediterranean Religion
Inbunden, 2024
1898 kr
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Instead of treating Christianity as continuing a utterly unique Judaism alien to Mediterranean religion, the book argues for a pervasive religious dynamic based on three modes; the religion of everyday social exchange, civic religion and the religion of freelance literate experts. These modes that …
Christian Beginnings
A Study in Ancient Mediterranean Religion
Häftad, 2025
517 kr
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Instead of treating Christianity as continuing a utterly unique Judaism alien to Mediterranean religion, the book argues for a pervasive religious dynamic based on three modes; the religion of everyday social exchange, civic religion and the religion of freelance literate experts. These modes that …
Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World
Inbunden, 2026
2186 kr
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Two major transformations of Late Antiquity redefined what it meant to be Roman: the Christianisation of imperial power and the collapse of the Western Roman state. This book examines how Prudentius, Athanasius, Augustine and other Roman and post-Roman writers used the figure of the ‘barbarian’ to …
Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity
Essays in Religion
Inbunden, 2026
2629 kr
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This collection of 21 essays, published together for the first time, offers three new models for thinking about religion and magic in late antiquity. Using a range of sources, David Frankfurter models a shift from thinking about magic to looking at the material powers of peculiar things activated …
Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity
Essays in Religion
E-bok, 2026
2200 kr
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This collection of 21 essays, published together for the first time, offers three new models for thinking about religion and magic in late antiquity. Using a range of sources, David Frankfurter models a shift from thinking about "e;magic"e; to looking at the material powers of peculiar …
Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity
Essays in Religion
E-bok, 2026
2200 kr
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This collection of 21 essays, published together for the first time, offers three new models for thinking about religion and magic in late antiquity. Using a range of sources, David Frankfurter models a shift from thinking about "e;magic"e; to looking at the material powers of peculiar …
Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group
Paul’s Chord of Gods
Inbunden, 2024
1331 kr
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The Origins of the Christ Movement in Corinth: Paul's Chord of Gods argues that Paul's language about his god (father, lord Jesus Christ and pneuma) would have been familiar to Corinthian gentiles as a small group of gods a chord of gods. Worship of Paul's chord of gods matches the common religious …
Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group
Paul’s Chord of Gods
Häftad, 2026
313 kr
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The Origins of the Christ Movement in Corinth: Paul's Chord of Gods argues that Paul's language about his god (father, lord Jesus Christ and pneuma) would have been familiar to Corinthian gentiles as a small group of gods a chord of gods. Worship of Paul's chord of gods matches the common religious …
Revelation as Divination
Divine Presence and Knowledge in Oracles, Mysteries, and the Apocalypse of John
Av Nathan Leach
Inbunden, 2026
1331 kr
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The Book of Revelation has been read as a literary prophecy, an allegorical divination narrative, or a piece of persuasive rhetoric. In this new approach to the apocalyptic text, Nathan Leach argues that Revelation’s oral performance to Christ-following assemblies in the ritual settings of the late …
Revelation as Divination
Divine Presence and Knowledge in Oracles, Mysteries, and the Apocalypse of John
Av Nathan Leach
E-bok, 2026
1630 kr
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The Book of Revelation has been read as a literary prophecy, an allegorical divination narrative, or a piece of persuasive rhetoric. In this new approach to the apocalyptic text, Nathan Leach argues that Revelation’s oral performance to Christ-following assemblies in the ritual settings of the late …
Revelation as Divination
Divine Presence and Knowledge in Oracles, Mysteries, and the Apocalypse of John
Av Nathan Leach
E-bok, 2026
1630 kr
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The Book of Revelation has been read as a literary prophecy, an allegorical divination narrative, or a piece of persuasive rhetoric. In this new approach to the apocalyptic text, Nathan Leach argues that Revelation’s oral performance to Christ-following assemblies in the ritual settings of the late …
