Empsychoi logoi-- religious innovations in antiquity
Subtitle: studies in honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst
By: edited by Alberdina Houtman, Albert de Jong, Magda Misset-van de Weg.
Contributors: Horst, Pieter Willem van der.; Houtman, Alberdina.; Jong, Albert de, 1966-; Weg, Magdalena Wilhelmina Misset-van de, 1943-
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9789004165977
Subjects: Religion -- Philosophy; Religions
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 'Judenthum', 'griechenthum' and 'christenthum' as parameters in early nineteenth century Jewish political thinking / I. Zwiep; title: Explaining change in Judaism in late antiquity / M. Goodman; title: The end of sacrifce : religious mutations of late antiquity / G.G. Stroumsa; title: Worshipping the visible gods : confict and accommodation in Hellenism, hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity / D.T. Runia; title: The impact of the individual; title: Ammianus marcellinus' judgement of Julian's Piety / J. den Boeft; title: A quodam persa exstiterunt : re-orienting manichaean origins / A. de Jong; title: The letter of Mara bar Sarapion : some comments on its philosophical and historical context / A. Merz & T. Tieleman; title: John the Baptist according to Flavius Josephus, and his incorporation in the Christian tradition / J. Tromp; title: The panegyris in Jerusalem : responses to Herod's initiative ( Josephus, antiquities 15.268-290) / J.W. van Henten; title: Group dynamics as agents of religious change; title: Sabbath at Elephantine : a short episode in the construction of Jewish identity / B. Becking; title: The opponents in the Johannine Epistles : fact or fiction? / M.J.J. Menken; title: Is there a heresy that necessitated Jude's letter? / G. Van Oyen; title: Jewish Monotheism and Christian origins / B.J. Lietaert Peerbolte; title: The didache redening : its Jewish identity in the light of Gentiles joining the community / H. van de Sandt; title: Bereshit bara Elohim : Bereshit Rabba, Parashah 1, reconsidered / P. Schaefer; title: New texts, new readings; title: Manichaean elements in n early version of the Virgin Mary's assumption / R. van den Broek; title: Interpretative thetas in the Strasbourg Empedocles / J. Mansfeld & K. Algra; title: 'Our righteous brethren' : reflections on the description of the righteous ones according to the Greek revelation of Peter (Akhm. 2) / T. Nicklas; title: The evil inclination in the Dead Sea Scrolls, with a re-edition of 4q468i (4qsectarian text?) / E. Tigchelaar; title: A Greek letter from Syria / K. Worp; title: Jewish and Christian texts in comparison; title: Close encounters of the third kind : Heliodorus in the temple and Paul on the road to Damascus / J.N. Bremmer; title: The untold end : 2 Maccabees and Acts / H. Lichtenberger; title: The fate of the wicked : second death in early Jewish and Christian texts / A. Houtman & M. Misset-van de Weg; title: 'Why do the nations conspire?' : Psalm 2 in post-biblical Jewish and Christian traditions / G. Rouwhorst & M. Poorthuis; title: The development of Jewish literature; title: The composition of prayers and songs in Philo's De vita contemplativa / J.H. Newman; title: Life and death in pseudo-Phocylides / K.-W. Niebuhr; title: The phrase 'good works' in early Judaism : a universal code for the Jewish law? / E. Ottenheijm; title: The  translation of Esther : a paraphrastic translation of MT, a free translation or a rewritten version? / E. Tov; title: The hidden reference : the role of edom in late antique and early medieval Jewish hymnography / W.J. van Bekkum; title: The development of early Christian literature; title: Rearranging the 'House of God' : a new perspective on the pastoral epistles / J. Herzer; title: Prayer as theological reflection : the function of prayer in Ephesians / G.E. Sterling; title: Refections on the apocryphal Gospels as supplements / G. Musser.