Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
Contents |
Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; A Note on Authorship; Epigraph; Half Title; Introduction: What You Can See When You Stop Looking for What Isn't There; Religio; Part I: Mapping the Word; 1. Religio without "Religion"; 2. The Ciceronian Turn; Part II: Case Study: Tertullian; 3. Preface to Tertullian; 4. Segregated by a Perfect Fear; 5. Segregated by a Perfect Fear. The Terrible War Band of the Anti-Emperor: The Coniuratio and the Sacramentum; 6. Governed by a Perfect Fear; 7. Precarious Integration. Managing the Fears of the Romans: Tertullian on Tenterhooks; Thrēskeia |
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Part I: Mapping the Word8. Imagine No Thrēskeia: The Task of the Untranslator; 9. The Thrēskeia of the Judaeans: Josephus and the New Testament; Part II: Case Study: Josephus; 10. Josephus without Judaism: Nomos, Eusebeia, Thrēskeia; 11. A Jewish Actor in the Audience: Josephan Doublespeak; 12. A Glance at the Future: Thrēskeia and the Literature of Apologetic, First to Third Centuries C.E.; Conclusion: What You Find When You Stop Looking for What Isn't There; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Texts; General Index |
Summary |
A study of ancient Latin and Greek words frequently translated religion with a view to showing how such mistranslation seriously obscures our understanding of those cultures including their Jewish and Christian versions |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Religion.
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religion (discipline)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Religion
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Bedeutung
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Begriff
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Religion
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Griechenland Altertum
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Römisches Reich
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780823271245 |
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0823271242 |
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9780823271238 |
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0823271234 |
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0823271218 |
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9780823271214 |
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