Research Catalog

Title

The religious history of the Roman Empire : pagans, Jews, and Christians / edited by J. A. North and S. R. F. Price.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• North, John, 1938-
• Price, S. R. F.

Description

xxi, 577 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford readings in classical studies

Uniform Title

Oxford readings in classical studies.

Subject

• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• Paganism > History
• Jews > History > 168 B.C.-135 A.D
• Jews > History > 70-638
• Rome > Religion
• Rome > History
• Rome > Religious life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [564]-571) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Changes in religious life : Roman and civic cults. Roman religion and the religion of empire : some reflections on method / Jörg Rüpke -- The Roman imperial cult and the question of power / Richard Gordon -- Magic in Roman law : the reconstruction of a crime / J. B. Rives -- New combinations and new statuses : the indigenous gods in the pantheons of the cities of Roman Gaul / William Van Andringa -- Hypsistos : a way of exalting the gods in Graeco-Roman polytheism / Nicole Belayche -- On the uses and disadvantages of divination : oracles and their literary representations in the time of the Second Sophistic / Andreas Bendlin -- Elective cults. Homogeneity and diversity in the religions of Rome / Simon Price -- Mysteries and Oriental cults : a problem in the history of religions / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro -- Ritual and hierarchy in the Mysteries of Mithras / Richard Gordon -- Community and community : reflections on some ambiguities based on the 'Thiasoí' of Roman Egypt / John Scheid -- Co-existence of religions, old and new. Acculturation and identitiy in the Diaspora : a Jewish family and 'pagan' guilds at Hierapolis / Philip Harland -- Josephus and variety in first-century Judaism / Martin Goodman -- The forging of Christian identity and the 'Letter to Diognetus' / Judith Lieu -- Purification and its discontents : Mani's rejection of baptism / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Pagans, polytheiests, and the pendulum / J. A. North -- Late Antiquity. Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire / Averil Cameron -- Enjoying the saints in Late Antiquity / Peter Brown.

ISBN

• 9780199567348
• 0199567344
• 9780199567355 (pbk.)
• 0199567352 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 687700601
• SCSB-10852975

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library