Beyond Reception
Subtitle: Mutual Influences Between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity (Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity)
Contributors: David Brakke (Editor); Anders-christian Jacobsen (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: September 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780820487052
Subjects: History; Religion
Description: This book argues that it is time to rethink reception as a traditional paradigm for understanding the relation between the ancient Greco-Roman traditions and early Judaism and Christianity. The concept of reception implies taking something from one fixed box into another, often chronologically later one, but actually Jews and Christians were deeply involved in Greco-Roman society in many different ways. The communication of cultural and religious ideas and practices took place among various religious and cultural communities with many overlaps. Accordingly, the contributors of this volume intend to develop a more multi-faceted view of such processes and to go beyond the term reception.