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Author Barton, Carlin A., 1948- author

Title Imagine no religion : how modern abstractions hide ancient realities / Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin
Edition First edition
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2016

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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
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
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Subject Religion.
religion (discipline)
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Religion
Bedeutung
Begriff
Religion
Griechenland Altertum
Römisches Reich
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823271245
0823271242
9780823271238
0823271234
0823271218
9780823271214