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Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780815330691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Margaret H. Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of freshly translated texts is designed to introduce those interested in Graeco-Roman and Jewish culture to the realities of Jewish life outside Israel between 323 BC and the middle of the 5th century AD.
Author: Natalie B. Dohrmann
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0812245334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume revisits issues of empire from the perspective of Jews, Christians, and other Romans in the third to sixth centuries. Through case studies, the contributors bring Jewish perspectives to bear on longstanding debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity.
Author: John Dominic Crossan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 006174428X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling author and prominent New Testament scholar draws parallels between 1st–century Roman Empire and 21st–century United States, showing how the radical messages of Jesus and Paul can lead us to peace today Using the tools of expert biblical scholarship and a keen eye for current events, bestselling author John Dominic Crossan deftly presents the tensions exhibited in the Bible between political power and God’s justice. Through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, Crossan reveals what the Bible has to say about land and economy, violence and retribution, justice and peace, and ultimately, redemption. He examines the meaning of “kingdom of God” prophesized by Jesus, and the equality recommended to Paul by his churches, contrasting these messages of peace against the misinterpreted apocalyptic vision from the book of Revelations, that has been co-opted by modern right-wing theologians and televangelists to justify the United State’s military actions in the Middle East.
Author: Max Radin
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 8026898702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Jews, as one of the Mediterranean nations, began to come into close contact with Greek civilization about the time of Alexander the Great. What has been attempted in the foregoing pages is an interpretation of certain facts of Jewish, Roman, and Greek history within a given period. The literature on the subject is enormous. A short bibliography is appended, in which various books of reference are cited. From these all who are interested in the innumerable controversies that the subject has elicited may obtain full information. Contents: Greek Religious Concepts Roman Religious Concepts Greek and Roman Concepts of Race Sketch of Jewish History between Nebuchadnezzar and Constantine Internal Development of the Jews during the Persian Period The First Contact between Greek and Jew Egypt Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt The Struggle against Greek Culture in Palestine Antiochus the Manifest God The Jewish Propaganda The Opposition The Opposition in Its Social Aspect The Philosophic Opposition The Romans Jews in Rome during the Early Empire The Jews of the Empire till the Revolt The Revolt of 68 C.E. The Development of the Roman Jewish Community The Final Revolts of the Jews The Legal Position of the Jews in the Later Empire
Author: Michael F. Bird
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1467445983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLively, well-informed portrait of the complex figure who was the apostle Paul Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why. An Anomalous Jew presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity with his blend of common and controversial Jewish beliefs and a faith in Christ that brought him into conflict with the socio-religious scene around him. Bird elucidates how the apostle Paul was variously perceived — as a religious deviant by Jews, as a divisive figure by Jewish Christians, as a purveyor of dubious philosophy by Greeks, and as a dangerous troublemaker by the Romans. Readers of this book will better understand the truly anomalous shape of Paul’s thinking and worldview.
Author: Karl P. Donfried
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780802842657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRome, as the center of the first-century world, was home to numerous ethnic groups, among which were both Jews and Christians. The dealings of the Roman government with these two groups, and their dealings with each other, are the focus of this book.t
Author: Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780300098396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
Author: David Konstan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-02-10
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1350278610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writings, and argues that the fundamental idea of "sin" arose in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, although this original meaning was obscured in later Jewish and Christian interpretations. Through close philological examination of the words for "sin," in particular the Hebrew hata' and the Greek hamartia, he traces their uses over the centuries in four chapters, and concludes that the common modern definition of sin as a violation of divine law indeed has antecedents in classical Greco-Roman conceptions, but acquired a wholly different sense in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.
Author: Tessa Rajak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-12-10
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9047400194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
