Klauck's is a uniquely well-informed and comprehensive guide to the world of religion in the Graeco-Roman environment of early Christianity. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, his volume paints a carefully nuanced portrait of the Christians' religious context. Besides describing ordinary domestic and civic religion and popular belief (including astrology, divination and "magic"), there is extended discussion of mystery cults, ruler and emperor cults, the religious dimensions of philosophy, and Gnosticism. An authoritative work, Klauck's will become a new standard for reference and teaching.
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"Klauck has done a commendable job undertaking a difficult task." -- Princeton Seminary Bulletin, July 2002
"Klauck's book is a currently unrivalled guide to its subject." -- International Review of Biblical Studies, 1999/2000
“The range of material covered by Klauck is huge and the bibliographies...are also very extensive..." -- Anvil, 2001
“another aid to understanding the background to the world into which the New Testament and Christianity were born” -- Novum Testamentum, XLII.4 (2000) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"Klauck's book is a currently unrivalled guide to its subject." -- International Review of Biblical Studies, 1999/2000
“The range of material covered by Klauck is huge and the bibliographies...are also very extensive..." -- Anvil, 2001
“another aid to understanding the background to the world into which the New Testament and Christianity were born” -- Novum Testamentum, XLII.4 (2000) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Hans-Josef Klauck is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago. He has published commentaries and monographs on 1 Corinthians, the Johannine epistles, New Testament theology, noncanonical gospels, and the history of religion in the Graeco-Roman world.
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The Religious Context Of Early Christianity: A Guide To Graeco-Roman Religions by Jans-Josef Klauck (Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago) is a college-level reference to the religious practices that were common and widespread at the inception of Christianity. Ranging from examinations of antiquarian sacrificial cults; to the popular belief systems of the day in astrology and soothsaying; to the imperial cults surrounding powerful individuals, and so much more, The Religious Context Of Early Christianity is a scholarly, impressively researched, and meticulously presented reference work which is a very welcome addition to Christian Studies reading lists and historical reference collections.
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sacrificial praxis, cultic fellowship, cultic honours, magical wheel, civic gods, cultic veneration, cultic image, imperial cult, domestic cult, cultic association, intellectual presuppositions, religious praxis, magical papyri, drinking feast, living emperor, gnostic schools, votive gifts, mystery cults, early imperial period, worldwide church, gnostic groups, ruler cult Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Testament, Asia Minor, Nag Hammadi, New York, Old Testament, Alexander the Great, Firmicus Maternus, Gospel of Philip, Middle Platonism, Annaeus Seneca, Jesus Christ, Philo of Alexandria, Apocryphon of John, Clement of Alexandria, Corpus Hermeticum, Simon Magus, Julius Caesar, Pliny the Elder, Revelation of John, Alte Welt, Ancient World, Apollonius of Tyana, Diogenes Laertius, Vettius Valens, Acts of Thomas New!
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sacrificial praxis, cultic fellowship, cultic honours, magical wheel, civic gods, cultic veneration, cultic image, imperial cult, domestic cult, cultic association, intellectual presuppositions, religious praxis, magical papyri, drinking feast, living emperor, gnostic schools, votive gifts, mystery cults, early imperial period, worldwide church, gnostic groups, ruler cult Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Testament, Asia Minor, Nag Hammadi, New York, Old Testament, Alexander the Great, Firmicus Maternus, Gospel of Philip, Middle Platonism, Annaeus Seneca, Jesus Christ, Philo of Alexandria, Apocryphon of John, Clement of Alexandria, Corpus Hermeticum, Simon Magus, Julius Caesar, Pliny the Elder, Revelation of John, Alte Welt, Ancient World, Apollonius of Tyana, Diogenes Laertius, Vettius Valens, Acts of Thomas New!
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- Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse (Symposium Series (Society of Biblical Literature), No. 18.) by Todd C. Penner; Caroline Vander Stichele on page 162, and Back Matter
- Augustus to Constantine: The Rise and Triumph of Christianity in the Roman World by Robert M. Grant in Back Matter
- The Literature of Theology: A Guide for Students and Pastors, Revised and Updated by David R. Stewart on page 45
- Early Christian Literature: Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries (Routledge Early Church Monographs) by Helen Rhee in Back Matter
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