Early Christianity in the Roman World
About the Book Series
This series offers a new forum for studies on the formation and development of Christian beliefs and practices in the first centuries of Common Era. The constitutive idea is to treat Early Christianity as a multivalent phenomenon, characterized by a fundamental diversity. The focus is on interchanges and interactions between various groups in the ancient Mediterranean world that had an impact on developing Christianity, including the interrelations between various Christian groups. The series wants to foster studies that seek to place the diverse manifestations of the Christian movement on the Hellenistic-Roman cultural and religious maps.
People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Labahn, Outi Lehtipuu
December 01, 2025
This volume presents a batch of incisive new essays on the relationship between Roman imperial power and ideology and Christian and Jewish life and thought within the empire. Employing diverse methodologies that include historical criticism, rhetorical criticism, postcolonial criticism, and social ...
Tolerance, Intolerance, and Recognition in Early Christianity and Early Judaism
1st Edition
Edited
By Outi Lehtipuu, Michael Labahn
December 01, 2025
This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity. At the same time, it acknowledges that examples of tolerance are significantly fewer in ancient sources than examples of ...