Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity: Studies in Text Transmission 3110484455, 9783110484458

Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity: Studies in Text Transmission 3110484455, 9783110484458

It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day.

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Incorruptible Bodies: Christology, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity (Volume 1) (Christianity in Late Antiquity) 9780520289994, 9780520964341, 2015035769, 0520289994

In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassu

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Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity (Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity) [1 ed.] 1138340952, 9781138340954

Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged wit

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Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 1: New Testament (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity) 1592447392, 9781592447398

The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of

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Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam 9780812207446

Focusing on the shared vocabulary of images and ideas with which late ancient Christians and Muslims imagined the past,

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Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity (Volume 2) (Christianity in Late Antiquity) 9780520291126, 9780520964983, 2015048170, 2015050963, 0520291123

Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the f

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Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond 9780520386471

Stories between Christianity and Islam offers an original and nuanced understanding of Christian–Muslim relations that s

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'Burning knowledge'': Studies of bookburning in ancient Rome

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Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity

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Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity 9780812203462

In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which confl

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