Beyond Reception Mutual Influences Between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity

This book argues that it is time to rethink reception as a traditional paradigm for understanding the relation between the ancient Greco-Roman traditions and early Judaism and Christianity. The concept of reception implies taking something from one fixed box into another, often chronologically later one, but actually Jews and Christians were deeply involved in Greco-Roman society in many different ways. The communication of cultural and religious ideas and practices took place among various religious and cultural communities with many overlaps. Accordingly, the contributors of this volume intend to develop a more multi-faceted view of such processes and to go beyond the term reception.Brakke, David is the author of 'Beyond Reception Mutual Influences Between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity', published 2006 under ISBN 9780820487052 and ISBN 0820487058.