Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529, Volume IIBRILL, 2014 M05 1 - 446 pages This work discusses the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws of Justinian the Great against paganism, c. 370-529. It examines such questions as the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery, temple conversions, the degradation of pagan gods into daimones, the christianization of rite, and the social, political and economic background of conversion to Christianity. Several local contexts are examined in great detail: Gaza, Athens, Alexandria, Aphrodisias, central Asia Minor, northern Syria, the Nile basin, and the province of Arabia. It lays particular emphasis on the criticism of epigraphy, legal evidence, and hagiographic texts, and traces the demographic growth of Christianity and the chronology of this process in select local contexts. It also seeks to understand the behavioral patterns of conversion. |
Contents
V The Philoponoi of Alexandria and Hellenic Religion | 1 |
VI Aphrodisias | 52 |
VII Asia Minor | 74 |
VIII Arabs and Aramaeans in the Syrian Countryside | 134 |
IX The Nile Valley from Canopus to Philae | 205 |
Sacrifice in FourthCentury Oxyrhynchus | 241 |
X The Antiochene and the Apamene | 247 |
The Once God Inscriptions | 313 |
The Bostrene Djebel Hauran and the Ledja | 316 |
The God of Aumos at Deir elLeben | 375 |
Temple Conversions and the Survival of Cult in the Early Sixth Century | 377 |
Epilogue | 380 |
| 387 | |
Errata Additamenta to Part I | 403 |
| 405 | |
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