Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity
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[Electronic Resource]
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/ Leif E. Vaage, editor
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Waterloo, Ont.
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: Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
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, c2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvi, 324 p. 24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
(Studies in Christiantiy and Judaism /etudes sur le christianisme et le Judaismejudaisme
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; 18)
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Includes bibliographical references ( p. 279-304) and indexes.
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Ancient religious rivalries and the struggle for success: Christians, Jews, and others in the early Roman Empire /Leif E. Vaage --Declining polis? Religious rivalries in ancient civic context /Philip A. Harland -- Rivalry and defection /Stephen G. Wilson --Is the pagan fair fairly dangerous? Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity /Reena Basser --My rival, my fellow: conceptual and methodological prolegomena to mapping inter-religious relations in 2nd- and 3rd-century CE Levantine society using the evidence of early rabbinic texts /Jack N. Lightstone --"Thefield God has assigned": geography and mission in Paul /Terence L. Donaldson -- Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy /Steve Mason --On becoming a Mithraist: new evidence for the propagation of the mysteries /Roger Beck --Rodney Stark and "the mission to the Jews" /Adele Reinhartz --"Look how they love one another": early Christian and pagan care for the sick and other charity /Steven C. Muir -- Religious market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's pagan competition /Roger Beck --Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire /Leif E. Vaage.
SERIES
Title
Studies in Christianity and Judaism
Volume Number
18
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Christianity and other religions- Roman
Rome- Religion
Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600