Christianity in Ancient Rome
Author: Bernard Green
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0567032507
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Pagan Rome and the Early Christians
Author: Stephen Benko
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1986-07-22
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780253203854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the early Roman empire, Christians were seen by pagans as overthrowers of ancient gods and destroyers of the prevailing social order. Allegations that Christians recognized each other by secret marks, met at night and made love to one another indiscriminately, worshipped the head of an ass and the genitals of their high priests, and ate children were widely believed. In examining these charges and the Christian response to them, Benko has provided a persuasively argued and refreshing, if controversial, perspective on the confrontation of the pagan and early Christian worlds."[book cover].
Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity
Author: Karl Galinsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0198744765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity presents perspectives from an international and interdisciplinary range of contributors on the literature, history, archaeology, and religion of a major world civilization, based on an informed engagement with important concepts and issues in memory studies.
Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire
Author: Niko Huttunen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9004428240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition Niko Huttunen challenges the interpretation of early Christian texts as anti-imperial documents. He presents examples of the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. With the concept of “recognition” Huttunen describes a situation in which the parties can come to terms with each other without full agreement. Huttunen provides examples of non-Christian philosophers recognizing early Christians. He claims that recognition was a response to Christians who presented themselves as philosophers. Huttunen reads Romans 13 as a part of the ancient tradition of the law of the stronger. His pioneering study on early Christian soldiers uncovers the practical dimension of recognizing the empire.
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
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.
The Christians and the Fall of Rome
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780143036241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped the world. Edward Gibbon's subversive and iconoclastic description of the rise of Christianity inspired outrage upon publication, and remains one of the most eloquent and damning indictments of the delusory nature of faith.
Christianity and the Roman Empire
Author: Ralph Martin Novak
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2001-02-01
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0567018407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rise of Christianity during the first four centuries of the common era was the pivotal development in Western history and profoundly influenced the later direction of all world history. Yet, for all that has been written on early Christian history, the primary sources for this history are widely scattered, difficult to find, and generally unknown to lay persons and to historians not specially trained in the field. In Christianity and the Roman Empire Ralph Novak interweaves these primary sources with a narrative text and constructs a single continuous account of these crucial centuries. The primary sources are selected to emphasize the manner in which the government and the people of the Roman Empire perceived Christians socially and politically; the ways in which these perceptions influenced the treatment of Christians within the Roman Empire; and the manner in which Christians established their political and religious dominance of the Roman Empire after Constantine the Great came to power in the early fourth century CE. Ralph Martin Novak holds a Masters Degree in Roman History from the University of Chicago. For: Undergraduates; seminarians; general audiences
Fires of Rome
Author: John Hagan
Publisher: Rauson Group
Published: 2010-05-01
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780982082812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Fires of Rome" is the companion work to "Year of the Passover" and covers the early Christian era from the crucifixion of Jesus in A.D. 36 to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 and beyond to the end of the revolt in A.D. 73. New Testament accounts of the crucifixion and early Christian events are examined against secular history written by accepted ancient Roman historians. "Fires of Rome" makes the case for a conspiracy against the Christians by the Jerusalem Second Temple High Priesthood which ultimately led to the persecutions in Rome, outwardly incited by Emperor Nero in A.D. 64. Earlier, in A.D. 62, the Jewish priests were responsible for the elimination of the Jerusalem Christian leadership, including James the Just, the brother of Jesus. Of necessity, "Fires of Rome" delves deeply into Roman history, with chapters on Roman Emperors Caius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, as well as chapters on the Jewish revolt of A.D. 66-73. "Fires of Rome" also profiles the powerful women of the early Christian era, including the infamous Herodias, Jewish Queen Bernice and her sister Drusilla, Agrippina the Younger, and others. Empress Poppea Sabina, the wife of Nero, is especially interesting, with her eclectic and semi-secret court of mystics, philosophers, and religious figures-which included historian Flavius Josephus and former Jerusalem Second Temple High Priest Ismael. Fires of Rome is a must read for every serious student of Christian history. Soft revision March 2013.
The Churches and Catacombs of Early Christian Rome
Author: Matilda Webb
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero
Author: Shadi Bartsch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-11-09
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1107052203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively and accessible guide to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of the notorious age of Nero.
