Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 216 pages
- Published by: Routledge
- Edition: 1st Edition October 20, 1994
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0415114489
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415114486
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Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 10.6 ounces
Product Review
". . . this book is a model of interdisciplinary cooperation, leading to fresh insights into religious life in the Roman Empire." --
History"The value of the book is that it brings home, with a variety of detailed backup, the liveliness of Jewish life in the first two centuries AD." --
Prudentia"This great collection of papers . . . reacts against 'the prevailing distorted picture of the religious history of the Roman Empire.'" --
Journal of Church and Statethe papers collected together in this anthology contain many valuable insights into the current state of scholarly debate on a host of issues surrounding the fields of early Christianity, Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaisms, and Roman history. Furthermore, each essay includes a helpful bibliography and the volume as a whole includes a brief glossary, a chronological guide, maps, and an index which make it quite useful as a research tool.
–Church HistoryIn short, students of early Christianity and the fathers will find something of interest in every chapter, even f there is considerable variety in the extent to which authors delve into detail and document their assertions.
–Vigiliae Christiane
Product Description
An interdisciplinary study of the place of Judaism in the religious changes and development within the Roman Empire which surrounded the emergence of Christianity. These essays, by the most eminent scholars in the field, offer significant contributions to the subject, while together with the Introduction by the editors they present a new way of understanding the role of Judaism and the patterns of religious interaction. This collection will enlighten students and lecturers of the classics, ancient history, Jewish studies, as well as theology and religion.
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