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Law in Religious Communities in the Roman Period
The role and function of law in religious communities in the Roman period—especially in Judaism—has been a key issue among scholars in recent years. This thought-provoking work is the first full-scale ...
Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild
Where do the origins of the rabbinic movement lie, and how might evidence from the early rabbinic literature be made to reveal those origins?
In order to shed light on the early social formation of the ...
Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima
We know how the story of the Roman Empire ended with the "triumph" of Christianity and the eventual Christianization of the Roman Mediterranean. But how would religious life have appeared to an observer ...
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question ...
Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities
One of the most pressing issues for scholars of religion concerns the role of persuasion in early Christianities and other religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. The essays in Rhetoric and Reality in Early ...
Society, the Sacred and Scripture in Ancient Judaism
This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem community of the fifth to fourth ...
The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context
Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. ...
A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics
Gnostic beliefs presented themselves as a major challenge to Irenaeus of Lyons (Against Heresies, ca. A.D. 180), Hippolytus of Rome (the presumed author of the Elenchos Against All Heresies, post-A.D. ...
Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity
The period since the close of World War II has been agonizingly introspective—not least because of the pain of reassessing Christianity’s attitude to Judaism. The early Christian materials have often ...
Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity
The second volume in this two-volume work studying the initial developments of anti-Judaism within the church examines the evolution of the Christian faith in its social context as revealed by evidence ...