Empsychoi logoi - religious innovations in antiquity: studies in honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst
'Judenthum', 'griechenthum' and 'christenthum' as parameters in early nineteenth century Jewish political thinking / I. Zwiep -- Explaining change in Judaism in late antiquity / M. Goodman -- The end of sacrifce : religious mutations of late antiquity / G.G. Stroumsa --...
| Summary: | 'Judenthum', 'griechenthum' and 'christenthum' as parameters in early nineteenth century Jewish political thinking / I. Zwiep -- Explaining change in Judaism in late antiquity / M. Goodman -- The end of sacrifce : religious mutations of late antiquity / G.G. Stroumsa -- Worshipping the visible gods : confict and accommodation in Hellenism, hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity / D.T. Runia -- The impact of the individual -- Ammianus marcellinus' judgement of Julian's Piety / J. den Boeft -- A quodam persa exstiterunt : re-orienting manichaean origins / A. de Jong -- The letter of Mara bar Sarapion : some comments on its philosophical and historical context / A. Merz & T. Tieleman -- John the Baptist according to Flavius Josephus, and his incorporation in the Christian tradition / J. Tromp -- The panegyris in Jerusalem : responses to Herod's initiative ( Josephus, antiquities 15.268-290) / J.W. van Henten -- Group dynamics as agents of religious change -- Sabbath at Elephantine : a short episode in the construction of Jewish identity / B. Becking -- The opponents in the Johannine Epistles : fact or fiction? / M.J.J. Menken -- Is there a heresy that necessitated Jude's letter? / G. Van Oyen -- Jewish Monotheism and Christian origins / B.J. Lietaert Peerbolte -- The didache redening : its Jewish identity in the light of Gentiles joining the community / H. van de Sandt -- Bereshit bara Elohim : Bereshit Rabba, Parashah 1, reconsidered / P. Schaefer -- New texts, new readings -- Manichaean elements in n early version of the Virgin Mary's assumption / R. van den Broek -- Interpretative thetas in the Strasbourg Empedocles / J. Mansfeld & K. Algra -- 'Our righteous brethren' : reflections on the description of the righteous ones according to the Greek revelation of Peter (Akhm. 2) / T. Nicklas -- The evil inclination in the Dead Sea Scrolls, with a re-edition of 4q468i (4qsectarian text?) / E. Tigchelaar -- A Greek letter from Syria / K. Worp -- Jewish and Christian texts in comparison -- Close encounters of the third kind : Heliodorus in the temple and Paul on the road to Damascus / J.N. Bremmer -- The untold end : 2 Maccabees and Acts / H. Lichtenberger -- The fate of the wicked : second death in early Jewish and Christian texts / A. Houtman & M. Misset-van de Weg -- 'Why do the nations conspire?' : Psalm 2 in post-biblical Jewish and Christian traditions / G. Rouwhorst & M. Poorthuis -- The development of Jewish literature -- The composition of prayers and songs in Philo's De vita contemplativa / J.H. Newman -- Life and death in pseudo-Phocylides / K.-W. Niebuhr -- The phrase 'good works' in early Judaism : a universal code for the Jewish law? / E. Ottenheijm -- The translation of Esther : a paraphrastic translation of MT, a free translation or a rewritten version? / E. Tov -- The hidden reference : the role of edom in late antique and early medieval Jewish hymnography / W.J. van Bekkum -- The development of early Christian literature -- Rearranging the 'House of God' : a new perspective on the pastoral epistles / J. Herzer -- Prayer as theological reflection : the function of prayer in Ephesians / G.E. Sterling -- Refections on the apocryphal Gospels as supplements / G. Musser |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| ISBN: | 9004165975 |