Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice / / Richard Valantasis.
This is an unprecedented collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. These texts--all in new English translation and many appearing in English for the first time--represent every major religious current from the late first century until the rise of Islam. Produced through the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PRINCETON READINGS IN RELIGIONS / Lopez, Jr
- CONVENTIONS
- CONTENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INTRODUCTION / Valantasis, Richard
- Inventing the Individual: Biography
- 1. The First Sahidic / Goehring, James E.
- 2. Philostratus of Athens / Williams, Megan H.
- 3. Porphyry / Valantasis, Richard
- Refashioning the Person: Asceticism
- 4. Evagrius Ponticus on Prayer and Anger / Columba, Stewart
- 5. Pseudo-Athanasius / Shaw, Teresa M.
- 6. Basil of Caesarea / Altepeter, Lawrence J.
- 7. Sermons of Columbanus / Holder, Arthur G.
- 8. Manichaean Asceticism / BeDuhn, Jason David
- Founding Religious Movements: Organizations
- 9. Talmudic Texts and Jewish Social Life / Boyarin, Daniel
- 10. Julian "the Apostate" / Burr, Elizabeth Geraldine
- 11. A Thriving Native Cult in the Fifth Century and Its Demise under Coptic Monks / Frankfurter, David
- 12. The Cologne Mani Codex / Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw
- 13. Tales of Holy Fools / Krueger, Derek
- 14. Vision for the City / Bundy, David
- 15. Acts of Thomas: Scene One / Hunter, David G.
- 16. An Anonymous Letter to a Woman Named Susanna / Tilley, Maureen A.
- 17. A Plea to a Local God for a Husband's Attentions / Frankfurter, David
- 18. Bishop Avitus of Vie nne to His Excellency Ansmundus / Tilley, Maureen A.
- 19. Chrysostom's Catecheses: A Hermeneutic of Social Institutions / Shippee, Arthur B.
- 20. John Chrysostom Sermons on City Life / Leyerle, Blake
- Regulating Religious Expression: Law
- 21. Laws on Religion from the Theodosian and ]ustinianic Codes / Mirow, Matthew C. / Kelley, Kathleen A.
- 22. The Acts of the Council of Aquileia (381 C.E.) / Steinhauser, Kenneth B.
- 23. Canons of the Council in Trullo (692 C.E.) / Skedros, James C.
- Creating Religious Ceremonial: Ritual
- 24. The Mithras Liturgy and Sepher Ha-Razim / Stratton, Kimberly B.
- 25. Manichaean Ritual / BeDuhn, Jason David
- 26. The Seal of the Merkavah / Swartz, Michael D.
- 27. Anonymous Spanish Correspondence; or the Letter of the "She-ass" / Burrus, Virginia / Keefer, Tracy
- 28. Amuletic Invocations of Christ for Health and Fortune / Frankfurter, David
- Singing Divine Praises: Hymnody
- 29. The Hymns of Ambrose / Springer, Carl P. E.
- 30. Hymns to Mary, the Mother of God, the Theotokos / Limberis, Vasiliki
- 31. Manichaean Hymnody / BeDuhn, Jason David
- 32. An Isis Aretalogy from Kyme in Asia Minor, First Century B.C.E. / Streete, Gail Corrington
- Sacrificing Self to God: Martyrology
- 33. The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity / Tilley, Maureen A.
- 34. The Martyrs of Lyons / Weidmann, Frederick W.
- 35. The Martyrdom of Habbib the Deacon / Doran, Robert
- 36. 4 Maccabees / Jefford, Clayton N.
- Enlivening Thought: Philosophy and Theology
- 37. Gregory Nazianzen Homily on the Nativity of Christ / Harrison, Nanna Vema
- 38. Texts on Iconoclasm: John of Damascus and the Council of Hiereia / Vila, David
- 39. Asterius of Amasea / Castelli, Elizabeth A.
- 40. Christian Oracle Shrines / Frankfurter, David
- 41. Popular Religious Practices in Fifth-Century Egypt / Frankfurter, David
- 42. The Zenith and Destruction of a Native Egyptian Oracle in 359 C.E. / Frankfurter, David
- 43. Manichaean Theology / BeDuhn, Jason David
- 44. Iamblichus, de Mysteriis, Book I The de Mysteriis / Struck, Peter T.
- INDEX