The crucible of religion in late antiquity : selected essays / Guy G. Stroumsa.
"The religious revolution of late antiquity and its intertwined religious history are reflected in a broad array of new forms of religious belief and practice, of which Christianity is only the most perceptible one. It is represented in the passage from polytheistic systems to monotheistic and duali...
| Uniform Title: | Essays. Selections |
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| Language: | German |
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Tubingen :
Mohr Siebeck,
[2021]
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| Series: | Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ;
124. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 305 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction : A New Religious Ethos
- Christʼs Laughter : Visions, Docetism, Martyrdom
- Myth into Metaphor : The Case of Prometheus
- The Early Christian Fish Symbol Reconsidered
- The Jewish and Christian Afterlives of Orphis
- To See or not to See : On the Early History of the Visio Beatifica
- Mystère juif et mystère chrétien : le mot et la chose
- In illo loco : Paradise Lost in Early Christianity
- Christʼs Laughter : Docetic Origins Reconsidered
- The Greek and Jewish Origins of Docetism (with Ronnie Goldstein)
- Sacrifice and Martyrdom in the Roman Empire
- Les martyrs chrétiens et Iʼinversion des émotions
- A New Axial Age? Sacrifice, Intolerance, Manichaeism
- The End of Sacrifice Revisited
- Les sages sémitisés
- Cultural Memory in Early Christianity : Clement of Alexandria on the History of Religions
- Moses the Lawgiver : The Idea of Civil Religion in Patristic Thought
- Axial Religion in the Late Antique Scriptural Galaxy
- Christian Intolerance and its Roots
- Titus of Bostra and Alexander of Lycopolis Against Manichaean Dualism
- The Words and the Works : Augustine and Faustus
- Anti-Manichaean Polemics : Late Antiquity to Islam (with Sarah Stroumsa)
- Conclusion : Shapes of Time in the Abrahamic Religions : A Phenomenological Sketch
- List of First Publications
- Index of Selected Topics and Names.