E.A. Judge's third collection of essays moves on from Rome and the New Testament to the interaction of the classical and biblical traditions, to the cultural transformation of late antiquity, and to the contested heritage of Athens and Jerusalem in the modern West. A lifelong interest in Rome bridges this range. Christianity emerges as essentially a movement of ideas, opposed at first to the cultic practice of ancient religion which had been meant to secure the existing order of things. The new message with its demanding morality laid the foundations for our radically different sense of 'religion' as the quest for the ideal life.The 'Judge method' tackles such momentous questions by starting with textual detail, translated from Latin and Greek. Inspired by the project of the Dölger-Institut in Bonn (the interaction of antiquity and Christianity), he brings to it a particular focus on those documents of the times retrieved from stone or papyrus. The collection reflects the more holistic approach to history, starting with the ancient world, that has been developed at Macquarie University in Sydney, where diverse interests are now drawn together from as far back as ancient Egypt or China in an attractive approach to the modern world.
Born 1928; Emeritus Professor of History at Macquarie University.
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Born 1928; Emeritus Professor of History at Macquarie University.
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Born 1928; Emeritus Professor of History at Macquarie University.
Titel
Jerusalem and Athens
Untertitel
Cultural Transformation in Late Antiquity
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9783161515545
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E-Book (pdf)
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Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
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1.46 MB
Anzahl Seiten
364
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