Sceptic and believer in ancient Mediterranean religions

Weitere Verfasser: Edelmann, Babett , [HerausgeberIn]
Nicklas, Tobias, 1967- 1967- , [HerausgeberIn]
Spittler, Janet E., 1976- , [HerausgeberIn]
Walt, Luigi, 1975- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2020].
Umfang/Format: xiii, 335 pages ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 443.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Disbelief and cognate concepts in Roman antiquity / Clifford Ando
  • Ancient Egyptian disbelief in the promises of eternity / Jan Assmann
  • The invention of atheism and the invention of religion in Classical Athens / Tim Whitmarsh
  • Youth, atheism, and (un)belief in late fifth-century Athens / Jan N. Bremmer
  • Disbelief in Rome: a reappraisal / Matthew A. Fox
  • "Who will worship tis man as God, who will believe in him?"-Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and the hermeneutical categories of belief and scepticism in emperor cult / Babett Edelmann-Singer
  • Plutarch als Apologet des Orakels von Delphi / Kai Trampedach
  • Belief and doubt in Aelius Aristides's Isthmian Oration: To Poseidon / Janet Downi
  • Loukianos Atheos: Humour and religious doubt in Lucian of Samosata / Inger N. I. Kuin
  • Skepsis und Christusglaube: Funktionen, Räume und Impulse des Zweifels bei Paulus / Tobias Nicklas
  • Luke as sceptical "insider"
  • re-configuring the "tradition" by re-figuring the "synoptic" plot / David P. Moessner
  • The gospel for sceptics: Doubting Thomas (JOhn 20:24-29) and early christian identity formation / Benjamin Schliesser
  • "Why do your doubt?"
  • Scepticism and some Nag Hammadi writings / Anna van den Kerchove
  • Evading doubt: astrology and magic in the Greco-Roman period / Richard L. Gordon.