The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity
Series: Oxford Studies In Abrahamic Religions;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 July 2015
- ISBN 9780198738862
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 240x173x20 mm
- Weight 512 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book studies how the religious structures of late antique religion (in particular Christianity) forged the core elements that became identified with those of the Abrahamic religions after the birth of Islam.
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This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important characteristic of the Abrahamic movement, often remains outside the mainstream, hidden, as it were, since it generates heresy. The figures of the Gnostic, the holy man, and the mystic are all sequels of the Israelite prophet. They reflect a mode of religiosity that is characterized by high intensity. It is centripetal and activist by nature and emphasizes sectarianism and polemics, esoteric knowledge, or gnosis and charisma. The other mode of religiosity, much more common than the first, is centrifugal and irenic. It favours an ecumenical attitude, contents itself with a widely shared faith, or pistis, and reflects, in Weberian parlance, the routinisation of the new religious movement. This is the mode of priests and bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. These two main modes of religion, high versus low intensity, exist simultaneously, and cross the boundaries of religious communities. They offer a tool permitting us to follow the transformations of religion in late antiquity in general, and in ancient Christianity in particular, without becoming prisoners of the traditional categories of patristic literature. Through the dialectical relationship between these two modes of religiosity, one can follow the complex transformations of ancient Christianity in its broad religious context.
For those who need to be persuaded that Christianity, Judaism and Islam are helpfully grouped together and analysed as Abrahamic religions, Stroumsa provides a most compelling and subtle collection of evidence. This volume is highly recommended for those wanting to probe questions of method and content surrounding Islamic origins and the mutation of religiosity in Late Antiquity.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: From Qumran to Qur'an: The Religious Worlds of Late Antiquity
Part I: Transformations of Religion in Late Antiquity
The End of Sacrifice
Patterns of Rationalization
Part II: The True Prophet
False Prophets of Early Christianity
False Prophet and False Messiah
Seal of the Prophets
Part III: Religious Communities and God's Law
Religious Dynamics between Jews and Christians
God's Rule in Late Antiquity
Part IV: The Way to Mecca
Jewish-Christians and Islamic Origins
Christian Memories and Dreams of Jerusalem
Barbarians or Heretics?
Envoi: Athens, Jerusalem, Mecca: praeparatio coranica
