Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction
Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction

Author: Daniel J. Lasker

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2007-04-26

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1786949857

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This meticulously researched study is based on a comprehensive reading of all the major Jewish sources from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenth century. Its clearly written and carefully documented exposition of the philosophical arguments used by Jews to refute four central doctrines of Christianity (trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virgin birth) makes a major contribution to a relatively neglected area of medieval Jewish intellectual history.

Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas
Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas

Author: Romila Thapar

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780195644456

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First published by the Clarendon Press in 1961, this authoritative work is based largely on the edicts of Asoka, whose policies are analysed against the background of Mauryan civilization during the third and fourth centuries BC. This is a thoroughly revised edition, with a substantial new afterword by the author, a revised bibliography and index, and a map showing new archaeological sites.

Circus Factions
Circus Factions

Author: Alan Cameron

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13:

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"Conceived as a companion volume to Porphyrius the Charioteer, this study traces the history and significance of what are generally known as 'circus factions' from the principate of Augustus to the eve of the Crusades, dealing mainly with the late Roman to early Byzantine periods. Other historians have analysed the activities of the factions, particularly the urban riots, in social, political, and religious terms, ignoring their sporting allegiances. Cameron offers a thorough-going criticism of the 'traditional' presupposition 'that racing was a thin façade for social and religious conflict'. In its place he presents what is essentially the history of chariot racing, its organization, participants, and spectator supporters. He shows how circus entertainments developed from privately mounted games to publicly funded entertainments; he examines the role of the hippodrome and theatre within political life; and he studies the changing nature of factions--from sporting rivalry, through 'partisan' gangs and hooliganism, to their incorporation in the games' imperial ceremonial and consequent decline." -- Provided by publisher

Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety

Author: E. R. Dodds

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780521385992

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Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. He looks first at general attitudes to the world and the human condition before turning to specific types of human experience. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all those interested in the ancient world and its thought.

Conflict And The Web Of Group Affiliations
Conflict And The Web Of Group Affiliations

Author: George Simmel

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1451602510

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Two major essays on the dynamics of social organization by the great German philosopher and social theorist Georg Simmel.