| Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean Reprint 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Crook, Zeba a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3110182653 ISBN-13: 9783110182651 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $186.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - General - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament - Religion | Antiquities & Archaeology |
| Dewey: 200 |
| Series: Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur die Neutestamentliche Wissensch |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.5" W x 9.3" (1.29 lbs) 325 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Combining classical, epigraphical, and biblical sources with social-scientific methodology, this monograph questions the way in which modern scholarship has tended to discuss ancient conversion. The author challenges long-held assumptions of psychological continuity between ancient and modern people, and offers in place of these assumptions a model founded on the categories the ancients used themselves. Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean religions and philosophies, including Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity, framed their religion in the language of patronage / benefaction and loyalty, and thus an understanding of ancient conversion must start there. |
