Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity) [1 ed.] 9781399502764, 9781399502733, 9781399502757, 1399502735

Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine 9781399502757

Studies the people, places and objects credited with ritual cures and the elite rhetoric critical of these cures Brings

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Families in the Roman and Late Antique World 9781472556684, 9781441174680

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Urban Religion in Late Antiquity 9783110641813, 311064181X

Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with

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Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity 3161514521, 9783161514524

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Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity 9780192542663, 9780198813194

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Jewish-christian Disputations in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fictions and Realities (Late Antique History and Religion) 9789042938571, 9789042938588, 9042938579

Ancient and medieval literature has bequeathed to us dialogues between Jews and Christians. Though there can be no doubt

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Jewish-christian Disputations in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fictions and Realities (Late Antique History and Religion) 9042938579, 9789042938571

Ancient and medieval literature has bequeathed to us dialogues between Jews and Christians. Though there can be no doubt

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Shared Religious Sites in Late Antiquity: Negotiating Cultural and Ritual Identities in the Eastern Roman Empire 3796547281, 9783796547287

The book aims at analyzing shared religious sites in the microcosm of the multireligious and multicultural Roman Empire

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Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity 9780271093390

In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the h

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Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine [39 halftones, 15 line illustrations, 1 map ed.] 9780674726628

Wishing to ingratiate himself with Rome, Herod the Great built theaters, amphitheaters, and hippodromes to bring pagan e

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