Early Christianity in Lycaonia and Adjacent Areas
Early Christianity in Lycaonia and Adjacent Areas

Author: Cilliers Breytenbach

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-12-11

Total Pages: 1007

ISBN-13: 900435252X

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This work gives a detailed survey of the rise and expansion of Christianity in ancient Lycaonia and adjacent areas, from Paul the apostle until the late 4th-century bishop of Iconium, Amphilochius. It is essentially based on hundreds of funerary inscriptions from Lycaonia, but takes into account all available literary evidence. It maps the expansion of Christianity in the region and describes the practice of name-giving among Christians, their household and family structures, occupations, and use of verse inscriptions. It gives special attention to forms of charity, the reception of biblical tradition, the authority and leadership of the clergy, popular theology and forms of ascetic Christianity in Lycaonia.

Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas
Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas

Author: Cilliers Breytenbach

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-14

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 9004524592

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This volume focuses on the rise and expansion of Christianity in Athens, Attica, and adjacent areas, from the Pauline mission until the closing of the philosophical schools under Justinian I. It takes into account all relevant literary, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence.

Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus
Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9004410805

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This volume is concerned with the emergence of Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus. Five papers relate to Cappadocia and east Anatolia, the others to the bishops of Constantinople, the city of Sagalassus in Pisidia, Caria and Cyprus.

Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece
Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece

Author: Cilliers Breytenbach

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9004367195

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This book explores how early Christian communities constructed, developed, and asserted their identity and authority in various socio-cultural contexts in Asia Minor and Greece in the first five centuries CE. With the help of the database Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae (ICG), special attention is given to ancient inscriptions which represent a rich and valuable source of information on the early Christians’ social and religious identity, family networks, authority structures, and place and function in society. This collection of essays by various specialists of Early Christianity, Epigraphy, and Late Antiquity, offers a broad geographical survey of the expansion and socio-cultural development of Christianity/ies in Asia Minor and Greece, and sheds new light on the religious transformation of the Later Roman Empire.

The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity
The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity

Author: Alan Cadwallader

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-12-28

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0567695980

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A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a “state-of-question” introduction by Thomas Robinson, assessing the interrelation of the village and city with the rise of early Christianity. Alan Cadwallader then articulates a methodology for future New Testament studies on this topic, employing a series of case studies to illustrate the methodological issues raised. From there contributors explore three areas of village life in different geographical areas, by means of a series of studies, written by experts in each discipline. They discuss the ancient near east (Egypt and Israel), mainland and Isthmian Greece, Asia Minor, and the Italian Peninsula. This geographic focus sheds light upon the villages associated with the biblical cities (Israel; Corinth; Galatia; Ephesus; Philippi; Thessalonica; Rome), including potential insights into the rural nature of the churches located there. A final section of thematic studies explores central issues of local village life (indigenous and imperial cults, funerary culture, and agricultural and economic life).

The Early Christians
The Early Christians

Author: Hartmut Leppin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-05

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1316517233

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Reveals the diversity and strangeness of early Christianity as seen by non-Christian contemporaries and by the modern world.

Receptions of Paul in Early Christianity
Receptions of Paul in Early Christianity

Author: Jens Schröter

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-10-22

Total Pages: 920

ISBN-13: 3110533782

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The volume deals with interpretations of Paul, his person and his letters, in various early Christian writings. Some of those, written in the name of Paul, became part of the New Testament, others are included among „Ancient Christian Apocrypha", still others belong to the collection called „The Apostolic Fathers". Impacts of Paul are also discernible in early collections of his letters which became an important part of the New Testament canon. This process, resulting in the „canonical Paul", is also considered in this collection.

Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside
Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside

Author: Markus Tiwald

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Published: 2021-04-12

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 364756494X

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Ever since Jesus walked the hills of Galilee and Paul travelled the roads of Asia Minor and Greece, Christianity has shown a remarkable ability to adapt itself to various social and cultural environments. Recent research has demonstrated that these environments can only be very insufficiently termed as "rural" or "urban". Neither was Jesus' Galilee only rural, nor Paul's Asia only "urban". On the background of ongoing research on the diversity of social environments in the Early Empire, this volume will focus on various early Christian "worlds" as witnessed in canonical and non-canonical texts. How did Early Christians experience and react to "rural" and "urban" life? What were the mechanisms behind this adaptability? Papers will analyze the relation between urban Christian beginnings and the role of the rural Jesus-tradition. In what sense did the image of Jesus, the "Galilean village Jew", change when his message was carried into the cities of the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Athens or Rome? Papers will not only deal with various personalities or literary works whose various attitudes towards urban life became formative for future Christianity. They will also explore the different local milieus that demonstrate the wide range of Christian cultural perspectives.

Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World
Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World

Author: Yair Furstenberg

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9004321691

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Jews and Christians under the Roman Empire shared a unique sense of community. Set apart from their civic and cultic surroundings, both groups resisted complete assimilation into the dominant political and social structures. However, Jewish communities differed from their Christian counterparts in their overall patterns of response to the surrounding challenges. They exhibit diverse levels of integration into the civic fabric of the cities of the Empire and display contrary attitudes towards the creation of trans-local communal networks. The variety of local case studies examined in this volume offers an integrated image of the multiple factors, both internal and external, which determined the role of communal identity in creating a sense of belonging among Jews and Christians under Imperial constraints.

Rituals in Early Christianity
Rituals in Early Christianity

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 9004441727

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Informed by the paradigmatic shift in ritual and liturgical studies, this volume offers analyses of key ritual traditions in early Christianity. The case studies focus on the dynamic formation and transformation of rituals in the context of Greco-Roman religion, Judaism, and Islam.