Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas

Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas
Author: Cilliers Breytenbach
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2022-11-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 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 Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas

Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas
Author: Cilliers Breytenbach
Publisher: Ancient Judaism and Early Chri
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004509603

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This volume focuses on Christianity in Attica and its metropolis, Athens, from Paul's initial visit in the first century up to the closing of the philosophical schools under the reign of Justinian I in the sixth century. Underscoring the relevance of epigraphic resources and the importance of methodological sophistication in analysing especially archaeological evidence, it readdresses many questions on the basis of a larger body of evidence and aims to combine literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence in order to create the outlines of a narrative of the rise and development of Christianity in the area. It is the first interdisciplinary study on the local history of Christianity in the area.

The Early Christians

The Early Christians
Author: Hartmut Leppin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2023-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316517233

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

The Bible, Christianity, and Culture

The Bible, Christianity, and Culture
Author: Pavol Bargár
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2023-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 8024654075

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This book originated in the Donatio Universitatis Carolinae award and research support that Professor Petr Pokorný received in 2017. It was envisioned, designed, and originally conducted as a project exploring the biblical roots of Christian culture. Experts in various theological and philosophical disciplines, both from the Czech Republic and abroad, were to probe this topic from their particular perspectives. The hoped-for output was to be a coherent collective study of the proposed topic. However, due to the unexpected passing away of Prof. Pokorný in early 2020, the project could not be executed according to the original plan. Rather than a collective monograph, therefore, the present book is a collection of essays that investigate various aspects of the Bible and Christianity in their relation to culture as a broad human phenomenon. The book is divided into two sections. While the first section focuses on particular issues in the Bible, the second addresses historical, philosophical, and cultural developments. As Petr Pokorný was actively and importantly involved in the initial stages of the project, two essays are written by him personally. The whole book, then, is dedicated in his honor.

Wisdom’s House, Heaven’s Gate

Wisdom’s House, Heaven’s Gate
Author: Teresa Shawcross
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 505
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 3031352637

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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
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 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.

Early Athens

Early Athens
Author: Eirini M. Dimitriadou
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2019-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1938770889

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This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age--ca. 1200 BCE--to the Archaic period, when Athens became the largest city of the Classical period, only to be destroyed by the Persians in 480/479 BCE. From a systematic study of all the excavation reports and surveys in central Athens, the author has synthesized a detailed diachronic overview of the city from the Submycenaean period through the Archaic. It is a treasure trove of information for archaeologists who work in this period. Of great value as well are the detailed maps included, which present features of ancient settlements and cemeteries, the repositories of the human physical record. Over eighty additional large-scale, interactive maps are available online to complement the book.

Athens, Attica and the Megarid

Athens, Attica and the Megarid
Author: Hans Rupprecht Goette
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 113454393X

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This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research. Written by an expert on Greece's landscape and archaeology, the guide is unique in exploring a wide range of sites off the beaten track. It also tours all the best-known monuments and regions, from the Acropolis to Aegina, from Megara to Marathon and from Sounion to Salamis. Beautifully illustrated with over 200 plates, maps, plans and drawings, it includes: * precise descriptions of routes and individual sites * artistic, historical, social and political background * unprecedented coverage outside Athens * detailed exploration of the post-classical, Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods. Take it with you on your travels or read it at home; either way, you will gain a deeper appreciation and enjoyment of Greece's history and archaeology.

The Origin and Meaning of Ekklēsia in the Early Jesus Movement

The Origin and Meaning of Ekklēsia in the Early Jesus Movement
Author: Ralph J. Korner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004344993

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In The Origin and Meaning of Ekklēsia in the Early Jesus Movement, Ralph J. Korner explores the ideological implications of Christ-follower associations self-designating collectively as ekklēsiai. Politically, Korner’s inscriptional research suggests that an association named ekklēsia would have been perceived as a positive, rather than as a counter-imperial, participant within Imperial Greek cities. Socio-religiously, Korner argues that there was no universal ekklēsia to which all first generation Christ-followers belonged; ekklēsia was a permanent group designation used by Paul’s associations. Ethno-religiously, Korner contends that ekklēsia usage by intra muros groups within pluriform Second Temple Judaism problematizes suggestions, not least at the institutional level, that Paul was “parting ways” with Judaism(s), ‘Jewishness’, or Jewish organizational forms.