Search for dissertations about: "imperial cult"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words imperial cult.

  2. 1. Paul between Synagogue and State : Christians, Jews, and Civic Authorities in 1 Thessalonians, Romans, and Philippians

    Author : Mikael Tellbe; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of the Christian church; hono; honor discourse; parting of the ways; imperial cult; imperial ideology; Rome; civic authorities; synagogue; Josephus; Jewish rights; Diaspora Judaism; Jews; Christians; early church; Philippians; Romans; 1 Thessalonians; Paul; Bible; New Testament; Kristna kyrkans historia; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Bibelvetenskap;

    Abstract : When first-century gentile Christians withdrew from the traditional and civic Graeco-Roman cults and increasingly began to be identified by the Romans as not belonging to mainstream or common Judaism, they soon found themselves pressed "between synagogue and state." On the one side, the fact that they did not observe the Torah elicited hostility from Jews who did not want to be identified with a movement that in Roman eyes could be interpreted as seditious and thus jeopardize their own political and religious privileges. READ MORE

  4. 2. Femina princeps : Livia's position in the Roman state

    Author : LOVISA BRÄNNSTEDT; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Livia; Rome; Roman empire; political culture; position; motherhood; patronage; imperial cult; honours; privileges; performativity; epigraphy;

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  5. 3. The Origins of the Synagogue : A Socio-Historical Study

    Author : Anders Runesson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ritual; archaeology; city gate; secondary state; Nehemiah; Ezra; Deuteronomy; ideology; Babylonia; Egypt; Palestine; cult centralisation; Artaxerxes I; Darius; Cyrus; administration; Persian imperial politics; origin; church; temple; Synagogue; proseuche; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : In the first century CE, synagogues existed not only in the land of Israel but in all parts of the Roman Empire where Jews lived. Although incorporating a number of activities, the most characteristic features of this institution were the public reading and teaching of torah, making the synagogue an unparalleled institution in the ancient world. READ MORE

  6. 4. The green shadow of Christ : a reception-exegetical study of Jesus and Pan in the gospel of Mark

    Author : David Wiljebrand; Karin Neutel; Mikael Tellbe; David Horrell; Sylvia Keesmaat; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Mark; Pan; Ecological Hermeneutics; eco-critisism; reception exegesis; agrarian culture; agrarianism; imperial ideology; pastoral poetry; Greco-Roman religion; nature discourses; Satan; demonology; Environmental History; nya testamentets exegetik; New Testament Exegesis;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates presentations of Jesus in the gospel of Mark, mainly chapter 6 and 9, in the light of the juxtaposition of Christ and the Greek nature god Pan. This juxtaposition recurs in the reception history of Pan in Western European culture. READ MORE

  7. 5. Order and Adornment : The Role of Dress in Plutarch

    Author : Peder Flemestad; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Plutarch; ancient dress; textile terminology; dress terminology; Imperial Greece; ancient Greek literature; Latin literature; inscriptions; Greek papyri;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the role of dress in the ancient Greek author and intellectual Plutarch. The works of Plutarch comprise one of the most prolific authorships preserved to us from classical antiquity. READ MORE