The thirteen essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world. The core of the volume deals with prose and verse panegyric under the Christian Roman Empire (4th-7th century): key themes addressed are …
The twenty-five essays brought together in this volume attempt to do two things. They try first to present a picture of some aspects of early Christian civilization and secondly they represent some of their authors' scholarly interests over the past thirty-five years.
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This volume is devoted to the biblical stories about Eve's children, Cain, Abel and Seth, and to the rewritings and explanations of these stories in a variety of early Jewish and Christian sources (for example, Old Testament Apocrypha, Philo of Alexandria, and Targumim).
A collection of articles published previously. One article deals with antisemitism: "Juden und Judentum bei den Kirchenvätern" (pp. 415-481); it was first published as a booklet in Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 1971.
