Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman WorldSeries: Ancient Judaism and Early ChristianityEdited by Yair FurstenbergJews and Christians under the Roman Empire shared a unique sense of community. Set apart from their civic and cultic surroundings, both groups resis…
"Jews and Christians under the Roman Empire shared a unique sense of community. Set apart from their civic and cultic surroundings, both groups resisted complete assimilation into the dominant political and social structures. However, Jewish communities differed from their Chris…
"Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point toward entities, forces,…
ANTIQUITIES BEYOND HUMANISM
"Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point toward entities, forces,…
"Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point toward entities, forces,…
The presumed dichotomy between a Greco-Roman paradigm of Western humanism and new theoretical currents in the humanities is exploded in this volume, which explores the myriad ways in which Greek and Roman philosophy and literature can be understood as foregrounding the non-human…
Economic realities have been increasingly at the center of discussion of the New Testament and early church. Studies have tended to be either apologetic in tone, or haphazard with regard to economic theory, or both--either imagining the ancients as involved in "primitive" econom…
Roland Boer and Christina Petterson investigate economic realities in the first century. Theoretically flexible and responsive to historical data, their use of Régulation theory takes seriously the centrality of agriculture in the ancient world and finds economic instability to …
The third in a series of volumes presenting a representative selection of Greek and Latin texts bearing on ancient associations. Each text is furnished with an English translation, epigraphical or papryological notes, commentary, a short bibliography, and extensive analytic indi…
The third in a series of volumes presenting a representative selection of Greek and Latin texts bearing on ancient associations. Each text is furnished with an English translation, epigraphical or papryological notes, commentary, a short bibliography, and extensive analytic indi…