Shira L Lander

Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space by analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781107146945
• ISBN-10: 1107146941
• Artikelnr.: 45191278

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.