Religious identities in antiquity and the early Middle Ages : : walking together & parting ways / / Ilkka Lindstedt, Nina Nikki and Riikka Tuori.

• Superior document: Studies on the Children of Abraham ; 9
• VerfasserIn: Lindstedt, Ilkka,; Nikki, Nina,; Tuori, Riikka,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nikki, Nina,; Tuori, Riikka,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the Children of Abraham ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 pages)

Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages contains eight thought-provoking articles that discuss the formation of antique and early medieval religious identities and ideas in rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Greco-Roman culture. The articles question the artificial disciplinary and conceptual boundaries between traditions. Instead, they stress their shared nature. The collection is a result of discussions at the international symposium "Ideas and Identities in Late Antiquity: Jews, Christians, and Muslims" at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies on March 12-13, 2018.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Ilkka Lindstedt, Nina Nikki, and Riikka Tuori -- 2 A Merchant-Geographer's Identity? Networks, Knowledge and Religious Affinity in the Expositio Totius Mundi et Gentium -- Antti Lampinen -- 3 Reconstructing the Identity of the Bacchic Group in Athens: οἱ Ἰόβακχοι and IG II ² 1368 -- Elina Lapinoja-Pitkänen -- 4 Signs of Identity in the Quran: Rituals, Practices, and Core Values -- Ilkka Lindstedt -- 5 Sabians, the School of al-Kindī, and the Brethren of Purity -- Janne Mattila -- 6 Righteous Sufferer, Scheming Apostate: Traditions of Paul from a Cultural Evolutionary Perspective -- Nina Nikki and Antti Vanhoja -- 7 Death in the "Contact Zone": An Analysis of Ibn Ḥanbal's Hadith about a Hairdresser-Mother and Her Sons ( Ḥadīṯ al-Māšiṭa ) -- Anna-Liisa Rafael and Joonas Maristo -- 8 Little Big Gods: Morality of the Supernatural in Lydian and Phrygian Confession Inscriptions -- Jarkko Vikman -- 9 "One Letter yud Shall not Pass Away from the Law": Matthew 5:17 to Bavli Shabbat 116a-b -- Holger Zellentin -- Index.