Jerusalem and Athens
Subtitle: cultural transformation in late antiquity
By: E.A. Judge ; essays selected and edited by Alanna Nobbs
Contributors: Nobbs, Alanna, 1944-
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 265; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 265.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783161505720
Subjects: Kristendom och kultur; Frühjudentum; Christianity and culture; Historia; Early church; Civilization; Vroege christendom; Kultur- och samhällsliv; Hellenisme; Frühchristentum; History
Notes: "Occasional papers of E.A. Judge": pages 315-321.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Classical antiquity and Christianity. The beginning of religious history ; Group religions in the Roman Empire ; Synagogue and church in the Roman Empire : the insoluble problem of toleration ; The impact of Paul's gospel on ancient society ; "Antike und Christentum" : some recent work from Cologne ; "Antike und Christentum" : towards a definition of the field ; Athens and Jerusalem; title: Documents of late antiquity. Jews, proselytes and God-fearers club together ; A state schoolteacher makes a salary bid ; The ecumenical synod of Dionysiac artists ; The puzzle of Christian presence in Egypt before Constantine ; The earliest use of monachos for "monk" (P. Coll. Youtie 77) and the origins of monasticism ; Fourth-century monasticism in the papyri ; The quest for mercy in late antiquity ; The magical use of scripture in the papyri; title: From ancient to modern. The conversion of Rome : ancient sources of modern social tensions ; Christian innovation and its contemporary observers ; The interaction of biblical and classical education in the fourth century ; Conversion in the ancient world ; The absence of religion, even in Ammianus? ; Biblical sources of historical method ; Ancient beginnings of the modern world.