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  • Ritual, Gender, and the Body in the Early Christian World

    Edited by Richard E. DeMaris, Soham Al-Suadi, Richard S. Ascough ...
    Series series Ritual in the Ancient Mediterranean
    This volume investigates the central role of physical bodies, ritual technologies, healing practices, gender constructions, and visual imagery in creating and sustaining religious meaning in antiquity.Religious life in the ancient world was profoundly shaped by the interplay of materiality, ritual, embodiment, and visuality. Far from being purely intellectual or doctrinal, religious practices ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Ritual, Emotion, and Materiality in the Early Christian World

    Edited by Soham Al-Suadi, Richard S. Ascough, Richard E. DeMaris ...
    Series series Ritual in the Ancient Mediterranean
    This volume advances our understanding of early Christianity as a lived religion by approaching it through its rites, the emotions and affects surrounding those rites, and the material setting for the practice of them.The connections between emotions and ritual, between rites and their materiality, and between emotions and their physical manifestation in ancient Mediterranean culture have been ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual

    by Rikard Roitto ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Scholars of religion have long assumed that ritual and belief constitute the fundamental building blocks of religious traditions and that these two components of religion are interrelated and interdependent in significant ways. Generations of New Testament and Early Christian scholars have produced detailed analyses of the belief systems of nascent Christian communities, including their ... Read more

    $151.19 USD

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    An Introduction to Sexual Ethics

    by John S. Grabowski ...
    Series Book 2 - Catholic Moral Thought
    "Grabowski offers a compelling rationale for the virtue of chastity that takes into account the sensibilities and challenges of the contemporary world" (Raymond Dennehy, Professor Emeritus, University of San Francisco)."A welcome addition to an often contentious literature," Sex and Virtue provides a theological foundation for consideration of the moral dimensions of human sexuality from a Roman ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions

    Edited by Barbette Stanley Spaeth ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    In antiquity, the Mediterranean region was linked by sea and land routes that facilitated the spread of religious beliefs and practices among the civilizations of the ancient world. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions provides an introduction to the major religions of this area and explores current research regarding the similarities and differences among them. The period ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The New Testament in its Ritual World

    by Richard DeMaris ...
    What was life like among the first Christians? For the last thirty years, scholars have explored the historical and social contexts of the New Testament in order to sharpen their understanding of the text itself. This interest has led scholars to focus more and more on the social features of early Christian communities and less on their theologies or doctrines.Scholars are keen to understand what ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Studies in the Historical Jesus

    Anarchy, Miracles, and Madness

    by Justin James Meggitt ...
    Series Book 1 - Critical Studies in Religion and History
    Studies in the Historical Jesus: Anarchy, Miracles, and Madness is a selection of key essays on the historical figure of Jesus published over the last fifteen years by Justin J. Meggitt. Each addresses a central question in the study of Jesus and his context, from the role of myth in the creation of traditions about him and the historicity of his miracles, to the problem of his politics and the ... Read more

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  • The World's Oldest Church

    Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria

    by Michael Peppard ...
    Series series Synkrisis
    Michael Peppard provides a historical and theological reassessment of the oldest Christian building ever discovered, the third-century house-church at Dura-Europos. Contrary to commonly held assumptions about Christian initiation, Peppard contends that rituals here did not primarily embody notions of death and resurrection. Rather, he portrays the motifs of the church’s wall paintings as those of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Christianity in the Second Century

    Themes and Developments

    Edited by James Carleton Paget, Judith Lieu ...
    Christianity in the Second Century shows how academic study on this critical period of Christian development has undergone substantial change over the last thirty years. The second century is often considered to be a time during which the Christian church moved relentlessly towards forms of institutionalisation and consolidated itself against so-called heretics. However, new perspectives have been ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity

    Edited by Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes, Alicia J. Batten ...
    The past two decades have witnessed a proliferation of scholarship on dress in the ancient world. These recent studies have established the extent to which Greece and Rome were vestimentary cultures, and they have demonstrated the critical role dress played in communicating individuals’ identities, status, and authority. Despite this emerging interest in ancient dress, little work has been done to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Jesus and the Empire of God

    Royal Language and Imperial Ideology in the Gospel of Mark

    by Dr. Margaret Froelich ...
    Series series The Library of New Testament Studies
    Margaret Froelich examines the Gospel of Mark using political and empire-critical methodologies, following postcolonial thinkers in perceiving a far more ambivalent message than previous pacifistic interpretations of the text. She argues that Mark does not represent an entirely new way of thinking about empire or cosmic structures, but rather exhibits concepts and structures with which the author ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Origins of Early Christian Literature

    Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture

    by Robyn Faith Walsh ...
    Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities. Whether described as documenting intra-group 'oral traditions' or preserving the collective perspectives of their fellow Christ-followers, these writers are treated as something akin to the Romantic poet speaking for their Volk - a questionable framework ... Read more

    $27.99 USD