In Defence of Christianity(1st Edition) Early Christian Apologists (Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity) (English and English Edition) by Jakob Engberg, Anders-Christian Jacobsen, JörgUlrich, JoergUlrich Hardcover, 263 Pages, Published 2014 by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN-13: 978-3-631-62383-1, ISBN: 3-631-62383-6
"<IIn Defence of Christianity </Iexamines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided in four parts. Part I provides an introduction to apology and apologetics in antiquity, an overview of the early Christian apologists, and an outline of their argumentation. The nine articles of Part II each cover one of the early apologists: Aristides, Justin, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, the author of the <IL ..."
"This volume assembles written versions of lectures presented and discussed at the conference «Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation – Discursive Fights Over Religious Traditions In Antiquity» held at Aarhus and Ebeltoft in Denmark in the spring of 2010. Most of the religious texts studied in the contributions were drawn from Early Judaism and Early Christianity. The interest in these was on the one hand elucidating different aspects of the r ..."
"This book contains 13 contributions from an international conference held in 2007. The idea of the conference was to investigate the confrontations and the cultural, philosophical and religious exchange between different religious groups in antiquity and to establish a more comprehensive theory about what apologetics was considered to be both in the context of antiquity and from the perspective of modern scholarship: is it possible to d ..."
"This book contains the contributions to a workshop on apologetics in early Christianity which took place at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford in the summer of 2007. The workshop was arranged by scholars from Germany, Finland and Denmark who had for some time worked together in a project on early Christian apologetics. The aim of the workshop was thus to present and discuss some of the results and stil ..."
Martyrium(1st Edition) Variationen und Potenziale eines Diskurses im Zweiten Jahrhundert (Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity) (German Edition) by Nicole Hartmann, JoergUlrich Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2013 by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN-13: 978-3-631-62180-6, ISBN: 3-631-62180-9
"Ausgehend von der Annahme einer stark ausdifferenzierten Jesus-Bewegung bietet diese Studie eine dekonstruktive Lekture von Texten aus dem zweiten Jahrhundert, in denen Hinrichtungen von Jesus-Anhangern als Martyrium uberhoht werden. Sie konzentriert sich dabei auf die Aushandlungsprozesse christlicher Identitat: in der Zuschreibung von Martyrerautoritat oder im Ausloten der Grenzen fur eine Vorstellung von Martyrern als Opfern - heilsw ..."
Beyond «Reception»(1st Edition) Mutual Influences between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity (Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity) by Professor David Brakke, Anders-Christian Jacobsen, JorgUlrich, JoergUlrich Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 2006 by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN-13: 978-3-631-55583-5, ISBN: 3-631-55583-0
"This book argues that it is time to rethink reception as a traditional paradigm for understanding the relation between the ancient Greco-Roman traditions and early Judaism and Christianity. The concept of reception implies taking something from one fixed box into another, often chronologically later one, but actually Jews and Christians were deeply involved in Greco-Roman society in many different ways. The communication of cultural and ..."