Religion and Power: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greek East (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Religion and Power This work contributes to the growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern "Greek" provinces in the first and second centuries AD - when Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 03 August 2000
- Format: Hardback 244 pages
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- Categories: History Of Ideas | Politics & Government | General & World History | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Comparative Religion | History Of Religion | Christianity
- ISBN 13: 9780195082630 ISBN 10: 019508263X
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Full description for Religion and Power
This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern 'Greek' provinces in the first and second centuries A.D. - the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose is to show how the local elite classes appropriated and manipulated mythic and religious images and practices to establish and consolidate their social, political, and economic power. Edwards considers both archaeological and literary evidence. He examines coins, epigraphs, statuary, building complexes, mosaics, and paintings from across Asia Minor and Syria-Palestine looking for evidence of sponsorship by local elites and the meaning of such sponsorship. On the literary side, Edwards selects one representative figure from each of the three major religio-cultural traditions: the Greek writer, Chariton of Aphrodisias; the Jewish historian, Josephus; and the Christian evangelist, the author of Luke Acts. He illustrates how each writer's use of religion reflects the interaction of local elite groups with the 'web of power' that existed in political, cultural, and social spheres of the Roman Empire.
