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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814902803321

Titolo

Text and artifact in the religions of Mediterranean antiquity : essays in honour of Peter Richardson / / edited by Stephen G. Wilson and Michel Desjardins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion = Corp. canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2000

ISBN

1-280-92535-3

9786610925353

0-88920-551-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (633 p.)

Collana

Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; ; no. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

DesjardinsMichel R <1951-> (Michel Robert)

RichardsonPeter <1935->

WilsonS. G (Stephen G.)

Disciplina

225.9/5

Soggetti

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D

Jews in the New Testament

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Partners in Publication; Contributors; Part One: Peter Richardson: Writer and Teacher; Part Two: Text and Artifact in the New Testament World; Part Three: Text and Artifact in the World of Christian Origins; Part Four: Text and Artifact in the World of Late-Antique Judaism; Part Five: Text and Artifact in the Greco-Roman World; Indices

Sommario/riassunto

Can archaeological remains be made to ""speak"" when brought into conjunction with texts? Can written remains, on stone or papyrus, shed light on the parables of Jesus, or on the Jewish view of afterlife? What are the limits to the use of artifactual data, and when is the value overstated? Text and Artifact addresses the complex and intriguing issue of how primary religious texts from the ancient Mediterranean world are illuminated by, and in turn illuminate, the ever-increasing amount of artifactual evidence available from the surrounding world.     The book honours Peter Rich