Jerusalem and Athens: Cultural Transformation in Late AntiquityE.A. Judge's third collection of essays moves on from Rome and the New Testament to the interaction of the classical and biblical traditions, to the cultural transformation of late antiquity, and to the contested heritage of Athens and Jerusalem in the modern West. A lifelong interest in Rome bridges this range. Christianity emerges as essentially a movement of ideas, opposed at first to the cultic practice of ancient religion which had been meant to secure the existing order of things. The new message with its demanding morality laid the foundations for our radically different sense of 'religion' as the quest for the ideal life.The 'Judge method' tackles such momentous questions by starting with textual detail, translated from Latin and Greek. Inspired by the project of the Dolger-Institut in Bonn (the interaction of antiquity and Christianity), he brings to it a particular focus on those documents of the times retrieved from stone or papyrus. The collection reflects the more holistic approach to history, starting with the ancient world, that has been developed at Macquarie University in Sydney, where diverse interests are now drawn together from as far back as ancient Egypt or China in an attractive approach to the modern world. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Classical Antiquity and Christianity | 9 |
The Beginning of Religious History | 11 |
Group Religions in the Roman Empire | 32 |
The Insoluble Problem of Toleration | 44 |
The Impact of Pauls Gospel on Ancient Society | 58 |
Some Recent Work from Cologne | 69 |
Towards a Definition of the Field | 80 |
The Puzzle of Christian Presence in Egypt Before Constantine | 140 |
The Earliest Use of monachos for Monk P Coll Youtie | 148 |
and the Origins of Monasticism | 156 |
FourthCentury Monasticism in the Papyri | 178 |
The Quest for Mercy in Late Antiquity | 185 |
The Magical Use of Scripture in the Papyri | 198 |
Christian Innovation and its Contemporary Observers | 232 |
The Interaction of Biblical and Classical Education | 254 |
Athens and Jerusalem | 109 |
Documents of Late Antiquity | 119 |
Jews Proselytes and Godfearers Club Together | 121 |
A State Schoolteacher Makes a Salary Bid | 130 |
The Ecumenical Synod of Dionysiac Artists | 137 |
Biblical Sources of Historical Method | 276 |
Occasional Papers of E A Judge | 315 |
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