Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa

Informationen zum Autor Shira Lander is the Director of Jewish Studies at Southern Methodist University, Texas, where she holds a faculty appointment in Religious Studies. She previously served as the Anna Smith Fine Senior Lecturer for the Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University, Houston, where she also directed the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance. Her publications focus on Jewish-Christian relations, including the commentary on 1 Corinthians in the ground-breaking publication, the Jewish Annotated New Testament (2011). She is the co-editor of A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer (with Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Nathaniel DesRosiers, Jacqueline Z. Pastis and Daniel Ulluci, 2015). Klappentext Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space by analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence. Zusammenfassung In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa! Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion! Christians! and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence! Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Scaffolding; 1. Foundational assumptions; 2. Christian perceptions of communal places; 3. Internecine Christian contestation; 4. Christian supersession of traditional Roman temples; 5. Christian supersession of synagogues; Conclusion. Ritual spatial control, authority, and identification.

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• Authors: Shira L Lander, Shira L. Lander, Shira L. (Southern Methodist University Lander, Lander Shira L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107146945
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14694-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, HISTORY / Africa / North, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Religion, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, African History, Archaeology by period / region, North Africa, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, African history: pre-colonial period