Juden, Christen und Vereine im Römischen Reich
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 100894383
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1515/9783110606201
- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- ISBN
- 9783110604306
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book draws on a large and diverse data set: about 500 inscriptions and papyri (many of which are untranslated) and a large number of Christian, Jewish and other Greek or Roman authors. It provides critical evaluation of a very influential scholarly paradigm, and therefore engages in both groundwork and theoretical reflection. The book is co-authored with a theologian, and while both authors have contributed their own chapters, a cross-disciplinary dialogue informs them all. Much effort went into this over a period of four years, and both authors had to leave the confines of their own comfort zone numerous times.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The book was jointly planned by Benedikt Eckhardt and Clemens Leonhard. Both authors collaborated on the introduction and the conclusion (Ch. 1 and 12); of the remaining chapters, five are authored by Eckhardt (Ch. 2-4, 6-7) and four by Leonhard (5, 8, 10-11). For the sake of comprehensive coverage of the topic, one contribution by Philip Harland (Ch. 9) was included in the volume, translated into German by Eckhardt.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This book explores the nature of Christian and Jewish groups within the framework of the Greco-Roman Associations model, highlighting what they have in common and how they differ. Over the past 30 years, several studies have attempted to do this, yet there are still major fundamental objections raised to their findings. This book presents the debate and attempts to clarify the question of what can be explained through historical comparison, and what cannot.
