The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity covers eight centuries of the Christian Church and comprises 3,220 entries by a team of 266 scholars from 26 countries representing a variety of Christian traditions. It draws upon such fields as archaeology, art and architecture, biograp…
Looks at the history of the rise of Christianity as experienced by the adherents of the traditional religions of the ancient world who directly experienced the major disruptions brought about by the rise of what they viewed as an upstart cult.
"The Fathers of the Church: A Comprehensive Introduction presents the most important authors and works of the early history of Christian literature. Spanning the first seven hundred years of Christianity, Hubertus R. Drobner introduces writers such as Philo, Origen, Eusebius, Je…
Memory in ancient Rome and early Christianity
What and how do people remember? Who controls the process of what we call cultural or social memory? What is forgotten and why? People's memories are not the same as history written in retrospect; they are malleable and an ongoing process of construction and reconstruction. Anci…
HauptbeschreibungDie Septuaginta stellt die älteste Übersetzung der Hebräischen Bibel ins Griechische dar. In den Beiträgen dieses Bandes wird die Übersetzung der Septuaginta in den Rahmen der Übersetzung anderer religiöser Texte der Antike gestellt und die spezifische Weise der…
"Dieser Band untersucht anhand ausgewählter Beispiele die religiöse Alltagswelt der Spätantike. Unter Zugrundelegung pragmatischer Definitionen der Kernbegriffe "Religion" und "Alltag" zeigt er über mehrere Regionen des Imperium Romanum hinweg und in verschiedenen Kontexten, ob …
Teil 1: "The first five books of Cyril of Alexandria's (c. 378-444 CE) monumental work of refutation "Against Julian" are being published here for the first time in a modern critical edition with an extensive apparatus of sources and parallel texts. The general introduction outl…
