Religion and law in classical and Christian Rome
By: Clifford Ando / Jörg Rüpke (eds.) ; assisted by Sarah Blake and Mihaela Holban.
Contributors: Ando, Clifford, 1969-; Rüpke, Jörg.
Series: Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge -- Bd. 15
Publisher: Steiner
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9783515088541
Subjects: Religion and law -- Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C.; Religion and law -- Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.; Religion and law -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527.; Religion and law -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- Justinian I, 527-565.
Notes: Includes abstracts.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-160) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Oral tradition and written tradition in the formation of sacred law in Rome / John Scheid; title: Religion in lex Ursonensis / Jörg Rüpke; title: Magic, religion, and law: the case of the Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis /  James B. Rives; title: Religion, law, and the Roman polity : the era of the Great Persecution / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser; title: <Papian commands one thing, our Paul another> : Roman Christians and Jewish law in the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum /  Andrew S. Jacobs; title: Prohibitions of religion in antiquity : setting the course of Europe's religious history / Dorothea Baudy; title: Revolution from the top? : <orthodoxy> and the persecution of heretics in imperial legislation from Constantine to Justinian /  Karl Leo Noethlichs; title: Religion and ius publicum / Clifford Ando.