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Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage
Near-Death Experiences, Ancestor Cult, and the Archaeology of Paradise
Häftad, 2019
764 kr
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The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage explores how the visionary experiences of early Christian martyrs shaped and informed early Christian ancestor cult and the construction of the cemetery as paradise. Taking the early Christian cemeteries in Carthage as a case study, the volume broadens our …
Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts analyzes a large corpus of early Christian texts and Pseudepigraphic materials to understand how the authors of these texts used, abused and silenced enslaved characters to articulate their own social, political, and theological visions. …
Unbound God
Slavery and the Formation of Early Christian Thought
Häftad, 2021
706 kr
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This volume examines the prevalence, function, and socio-political effects of slavery discourse in the major theological formulations of the late third to early fifth centuries AD, arguably the most formative period of early Christian doctrine. The question the book poses is this: in what way did …
New Perspective on the Use of Paul in the Gospel of Mark
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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This volume presents a detailed case for the plausible literary dependence of the Gospel of Mark on select letters of the apostle Paul.The book argues that Mark and Paul share a gospel narrative that tells the story of the life, death, resurrection, and second coming of Jesus Christ "in accordance …
New Perspective on the Use of Paul in the Gospel of Mark
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This volume presents a detailed case for the plausible literary dependence of the Gospel of Mark on select letters of the apostle Paul.The book argues that Mark and Paul share a gospel narrative that tells the story of the life, death, resurrection, and second coming of Jesus Christ "in accordance …
Between Jews and Heretics
Refiguring Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho is the oldest preserved literary dialogue between a Jew and a Christian and a key text for understanding the development of early Judaism and Christianity. In Between Jews and Heretics, Matthijs den Dulk argues that whereas scholarship has routinely cast this …
Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse
Double Trouble Embodied
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse adds new knowledge to the ongoing discussion of slavery in early Christian discourse. Kartzow argues that the complex tension between metaphor and social reality in early Christian discourse is undertheorized. A metaphor can …
Reconceiving Religious Conflict
New Views from the Formative Centuries of Christianity
Av Wendy Mayer, Chris L. de Wet
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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Reconceiving Religious Conflict deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity, the first six centuries CE. It explores the theoretical foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of religious conflict within the context of persecution and martyrdom; …
Jewish Glass and Christian Stone
A Materialist Mapping of the "Parting of the Ways"
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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In recent years scholars have re-evaluated the "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity, reaching new understandings of the ways shared origins gave way to two distinct and sometimes inimical religious traditions. But this has been a profoundly textual task, relying on the writings of …
Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City examines how the increasing authority of institutionalized churches changed late antique urban environments. Aquileia, the third largest city in Italy during late antiquity, presents a case study in the transformation of elite Roman …
Resurrecting Parts
Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference
Häftad, 2019
735 kr
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During the late second and early third centuries C.E. the resurrection became a central question for intellectual commentary, with increasingly tense divisions between those who interpreted the resurrection as a bodily experience and those who did not. The relationship between the resurrected …
Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE
The Form and Function of Hagiography in Late Antique and Islamic Egypt
Häftad, 2019
706 kr
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This is the first full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189–232 ce), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ages and the modern era. Drawing upon Patristic, Coptic, and Arabic sources spanning a millennium, the …
Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought
Av Mark Edwards, Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
Häftad, 2019
706 kr
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This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian …
Between Jews and Heretics
Refiguring Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho
Inbunden, 2018
2890 kr
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Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho is the oldest preserved literary dialogue between a Jew and a Christian and a key text for understanding the development of early Judaism and Christianity. In Between Jews and Heretics, Matthijs den Dulk argues that whereas scholarship has routinely cast this …
Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse
Double Trouble Embodied
Inbunden, 2018
2513 kr
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The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse adds new knowledge to the ongoing discussion of slavery in early Christian discourse. Kartzow argues that the complex tension between metaphor and social reality in early Christian discourse is undertheorized. A metaphor can …
Valentinus’ Legacy and Polyphony of Voices
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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This book challenges the popular use of ‘Valentinian’ to describe a Christian school of thought in the second century CE by analysing documents ascribed to ‘Valentinians’ by early Christian Apologists, and more recently by modern scholars after the discovery of codices near Nag Hammadi in Egypt.To …
Valentinus’ Legacy and Polyphony of Voices
Häftad, 2024
633 kr
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This book challenges the popular use of ‘Valentinian’ to describe a Christian school of thought in the second century CE by analysing documents ascribed to ‘Valentinians’ by early Christian Apologists, and more recently by modern scholars after the discovery of codices near Nag Hammadi in Egypt.To …
Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts
Häftad, 2021
706 kr
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The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts analyzes a large corpus of early Christian texts and Pseudepigraphic materials to understand how the authors of these texts used, abused and silenced enslaved characters to articulate their own social, political, and theological visions. …
Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Surviving Martyrdom
Inbunden, 2022
2887 kr
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This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must move away from conceptualizations that require or center on death.After an introduction that traces …
Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Surviving Martyrdom
Häftad, 2024
687 kr
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This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must move away from conceptualizations that require or center on death.After an introduction that traces …
Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes
Three Early Christian Teachers of Alexandria and Rome
Inbunden, 2022
2585 kr
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Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is the definitive study of the early Christian theologian Carpocrates, his son Epiphanes, and the leader of the Carpocratian movement in Rome, Marcellina.It contains the first full-length study of and commentary on the fragments of Epiphanes, the earliest …
Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes
Three Early Christian Teachers of Alexandria and Rome
Häftad, 2024
647 kr
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Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is the definitive study of the early Christian theologian Carpocrates, his son Epiphanes, and the leader of the Carpocratian movement in Rome, Marcellina.It contains the first full-length study of and commentary on the fragments of Epiphanes, the earliest …
Social History of Christian Origins
The Rejected Jesus
Inbunden, 2022
2132 kr
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A Social History of Christian Origins explores how the theme of the Jewish rejection of Jesus – embedded in Paul’s letters and the New Testament Gospels – represents the ethnic, social, cultural, and theological conflicts that facilitated the construction of Christian identity.Readers of this book …
Social History of Christian Origins
The Rejected Jesus
Häftad, 2022
618 kr
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A Social History of Christian Origins explores how the theme of the Jewish rejection of Jesus – embedded in Paul’s letters and the New Testament Gospels – represents the ethnic, social, cultural, and theological conflicts that facilitated the construction of Christian identity.Readers of this book …
Making of Syriac Jerusalem
Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2023
2510 kr
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This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem in the literature of two Eastern Christian denominations, East and West Syrians.Popa analyses the …
Making of Syriac Jerusalem
Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2024
744 kr
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This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem in the literature of two Eastern Christian denominations, East and West Syrians.Popa analyses the …
Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity
Iconography, the Christianization of Marriage, and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented or missing in literary sources.Historians of early …
Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity
Iconography, the Christianization of Marriage, and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal
Inbunden, 2023
2510 kr
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This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented or missing in literary sources.Historians of early …
Reconstructing Women’s Roles in Early Christianity
Av Roberta Franchi, Aneilya Barnes
Inbunden, 2026
2475 kr
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Reconstructing Women’s Roles in Early Christianity provides a thorough understanding of women’s significance in the establishment and development of Early Christianity throughout the Mediterranean.This volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to the role of women in the early Christian Church, …
Unveiling the Lay Land of Christian Palestine in Late Antiquity
Beyond Holiness
Inbunden, 2026
2510 kr
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How did Late Antique Palestine sustain its identity as the Christian Holy Land? Through close examination of the built environment, this book offers a new understanding of Palestine's socio-religious landscape in Late Antiquity that extends beyond the region's monumental pilgrimage sites and …
