TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vaage,Leif E.
ED  - Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.
TI  - Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity 
T2  - Studies in Christiantiy and Judaism /Études sur le christianisme et le Judaïsmejudaisme
SN  - 0889204497
AV  - BL 96.R45 2006 BL 96.R45 2006
U1  - 270.1 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Waterloo, Ont.
PB  - Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Roman
KW  - Rome
KW  - Religion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references ( p. 279-304) and indexes; Ancient religious rivalries and the struggle for success: Christians, Jews, and others in the early Roman Empire /$r Leif E. Vaage --$t Declining polis? Religious rivalries in ancient civic context /$r Philip A. Harland --$t Rivalry and defection /$r Stephen G. Wilson --$t Is the pagan fair fairly dangerous? Jewish-pagan relations in antiquity /  Reena Basser --$t My rival, my fellow: conceptual and methodological prolegomena to mapping inter-religious relations in 2nd- and 3rd-century CE Levantine society using the evidence of early rabbinic texts /$r Jack N. Lightstone --$g "The$t field God has assigned": geography and mission in Paul /$r Terence L. Donaldson --$t Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy /$r Steve Mason --$t On becoming a Mithraist: new evidence for the propagation of the mysteries /$r Roger Beck --$t Rodney Stark and "the mission to the Jews" /$r Adele Reinhartz --$t "Look how they love one another": early Christian and pagan care for the sick and other charity /$r Steven C. Muir --$t Religious market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's pagan competition /$r Roger Beck --$t Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire /$r Leif E. Vaage
ER  -