Religious Diversity in Late AntiquityDavid Morton Gwynn, Susanne Bangert This new volume in the well-established Late Antique Archaeology series draws together recent research by archaeologists and historians to shed new light on the religious world of Late Antiquity. A detailed bibliographic essay provides an overview of relevant literature, while individual articles explore the diversity of late antique religion. Rabbinic and non-rabbinic Judaism is traced in Beth Shearim, Dura Europus and Sepphoris, and the Samaritan community in Israel, while Christian concepts of orthodoxy and heresy are examined with a particular focus on the `Arian' Controversy. Popular piety receives close attention, through the archaeology of pilgrimage and the stylite `pillar saints', and too does the complex relationship between religion and magic and between sacred and secular in Late Antiquity. Contributors are David M. Gwynn, Susanne Bangert, Jodi Magness, Zeev Weiss, Shimon Dar, Michel-Yves Perrin, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Lukas Amadeus Schachner, Arja Karivieri, Carla Sfameni, Claude Lepelley, Mark Humphries, Elizabeth Jeffreys, and Isabella Sandwell. |
Contents
An Introduction | 1 |
A Bibliographic Essay | 15 |
Jews and Samaritans | 93 |
Third Century Jews and Judaism at Beth Shearim and Dura | 135 |
Artistic Trends and Contact between Jews and Others in Late | 167 |
Archaeological Aspects of Samaritan Research in Israel | 189 |
The Limits of the Heresiological Ethos in Late Antiquity | 207 |
Archaeology and the Arian Controversy in the Fourth | 229 |
The Archaeology of the Stylite | 329 |
Magic and Syncretic Religious Culture in the East | 401 |
The Evidence of Magical Gems | 435 |
The Use of Secularised Latin Pagan Culture by Christians | 477 |
The Presence or Absence | 493 |
Literary Genre or Religious Apathy? The Presence or Absence | 511 |
John Chrysostoms Audiences and His Accusations of Religious | 523 |
Abstracts in French | 543 |
Where is the Archaeology and Iconography of Germanic | 265 |
Abu Mina and Beyond | 293 |
Erratum | 563 |
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