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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Christianizing the Roman Empire: Jews and the Law from Constantine to Justinian, 300–600 CE on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
The circulation and republication of Christian Roman laws on Jews and Judaism gives us a window into the ways imperial attention to the Jewish “other” – sometimes benevolent, sometimes punitive – created multiple paths for the Christianization of the Roman Empire. Laws on economic status, social interaction, and religious custom ultimately produce…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Christians, Jews, and Judaism in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, c. 150–400 CE on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
The institutional, social, and theological rise of an imperial-episcopal orthodoxy in the 4th-century Roman Empire transformed the productive, if not always genial, scriptural and ritual interactions among Jews and Christians in previous centuries into a discourse of theological difference, enabling violence and exclusion.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
This essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
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Ellen Muehlberger's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
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Peter Webster's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
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Peter Webster deposited Religion and Web History in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis chapter surveys the current state of knowledge relating to the Web history of religion, and suggests some ways forward.
Its first half attends to some debates of particular historical and methodological note with which the emerging history of religions on the Web may fruitfully be brought into conversation. These include debates concerning…[Read more] -
Peter Webster deposited Religion and Web History in the group
AAR Artificial Intelligence and Religion Research Seminar on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis chapter surveys the current state of knowledge relating to the Web history of religion, and suggests some ways forward.
Its first half attends to some debates of particular historical and methodological note with which the emerging history of religions on the Web may fruitfully be brought into conversation. These include debates concerning…[Read more] - Load More