Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa
Author:   Shira L. Lander (Southern Methodist University, Texas)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107146945


Pages:   266
Publication Date:   24 October 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Shira L. Lander (Southern Methodist University, Texas)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781107146945


ISBN 10:   1107146941
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   24 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction. Scaffolding; 1. Foundational assumptions; 2. Christian perceptions of communal places; 3. Internecine Christian contestation; 4. Christian supersession of traditional Roman temples; 5. Christian supersession of synagogues; Conclusion. Ritual spatial control, authority, and identification.

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Shira Lander is the Director of Jewish Studies at Southern Methodist University, Texas, where she holds a faculty appointment in Religious Studies. She previously served as the Anna Smith Fine Senior Lecturer for the Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University, Houston, where she also directed the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance. Her publications focus on Jewish-Christian relations, including the commentary on 1 Corinthians in the ground-breaking publication, the Jewish Annotated New Testament (2011). She is the co-editor of A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer (with Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Nathaniel DesRosiers, Jacqueline Z. Pastis and Daniel Ulluci, 2015).

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