Movement from one community to another can create strife, pain, and social dislocation. In this astute analysis, Stephen Wilson examines the ancient sources for clues to how leaving a religious group happened, what motivated defectors, and the different ways Jews, Christians, and pagans interpreted the event. As Wilson explains, ''by and large defection was a rancorous business and provoked extreme reactions, understandably so in the case of those who became traitors or who turned violently on their former community. But even the less dramatic instances were deeply troubling.''
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Crossing religious boundaries in the ancient world.
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Stephen G. Wilson is Professor of Religion at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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Wilson's text attempts to study a historical topic which is difficult to frame or approach, and unfortunately doesn't really carry off the task. Wilson's work is generally first rate, but the problems faced here seem simply to have been too great to overcome.
Surprisingly many copies seem to have shipped with serious printing errors, including problems on the cover of the book itself.
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My attention was first drawn to the phenomenon of apostasy when studying the relation of Jews and Christians in the first two centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bar Kokhba, Jewish Christians, Surveying the Horizon, Tiberius Alexander, Elisha ben Abuyah, Asia Minor, Gentile Christians, Jerusalem Temple, Pagan Defectors, Alexandrian Jews, Antiochus of Ascalon, Christian Jews, Julia Severa, Julian the Apostate, Antiochus of Antioch, Diogenes Laertius, Cyrenian Jews, Temple Scroll New!
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Bar Kokhba, Jewish Christians, Surveying the Horizon, Tiberius Alexander, Elisha ben Abuyah, Asia Minor, Gentile Christians, Jerusalem Temple, Pagan Defectors, Alexandrian Jews, Antiochus of Ascalon, Christian Jews, Julia Severa, Julian the Apostate, Antiochus of Antioch, Diogenes Laertius, Cyrenian Jews, Temple Scroll New!
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- The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Flavius Josephus on 5 pages
- Jewish and Christian Self-Definition by E. P. Sanders in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Against Apion by Flavius Josephus in Front Matter, and page 44
- Philosophia Togata: Essays on Philosophy and Roman Society (v. 1) by Miriam Griffin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE-117 CE) (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies) by John M. G. Barclay in Back Matter
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