Format:
XIII, 460 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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23 cm x 15.5 cm
ISBN:
9783110447019
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3110447010
Series Statement:
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten Band 66
Content:
This volume questions the established modern scholarly categories of priests and priesthood and focusses on processes of appropriation and contestation of religious expertise in the Imperial Era. It offers a unique insight into ancient religious specialists, their dynamic interaction with established religious authorities and institutions, and their contributions to religious innovation in the ancient Mediterranean world
Note:
Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits ; Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome
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Lived Religion among second-century 'Gnostic hieratic specialists'
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On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250-400)
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Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur ; Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo's representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides
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A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus
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Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs
,
Christians, the 'more obvious' representatives of the religion of Israel than the rabbis?
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Rhetorical indications of the poet's craft in the ancient synagogue
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Part III: Filling in the Blanks ; In search of the 'beggar-priest'
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Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire
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Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field
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Part IV: 'Written on the Body' ; Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater
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Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis
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'You can leave your hat on.' Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110448184
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110447644
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Beyond Duty: Interacting with Religious Professionals and Appropriating Tradition in the Imperial Era (Veranstaltung : 2015 : Erfurt) Beyond Priesthood Berlin : De Gruyter, 2017 ISBN 9783110447644
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110448184
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Beyond priesthood Berlin : De Gruyter, 2017 ISBN 9783110447644
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110448184
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Römisches Reich
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Amt
;
Religion
;
Interaktion
;
Religiöse Einrichtung
;
Religiöses Leben
;
Geschichte 30 v. Chr.-600
;
Römisches Reich
;
Frühchristentum
;
Kirchliches Amt
;
Interaktion
;
Geschichte
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Petridou, Georgia 1978-
Author information:
Gordon, Richard L. 1943-
Author information:
Rüpke, Jörg 1962-
