Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean TraditionsBRILL, 7 במרץ 2022 - 492 עמודים The interest in interdisciplinary research on the experience of religious conversion or spiritual transformation grows progressively. In light of this burgeoning area of study, this volume explores conversion or converting experience in the ancient Mediterranean with attention to early Judaism, early Christianity, and philosophy in the Roman empire. The contributions include both historical and philological reconstructions relying on source material and utilizing interdisciplinary approaches. Similarly, the authors analyze the literary use of the motif of conversion, the topic of philosophical conversion as well as ritual, social and embodied aspects of spiritual transformation. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Interdisciplinary Conversion Research | 15 |
Contemporary Models of Conversion and Identity Transformation | 17 |
Using Behavioural Sciences to Understand Early Christian Experiences of Conversion | 43 |
Conversion in Ancient Judaism | 59 |
A Philological Study on the Book of Ruth | 61 |
An Essay on Old and New in Second Temple Judaism and on Paul the Convert According to Phil 3241 | 86 |
A Cognitive Approach | 119 |
Conversion in the New Testament | 239 |
Is There Conversion in the Synoptic Gospels? | 241 |
Metanoia in the Sermon on the Mount A Philosophical Approach | 272 |
Religious and Philosophical Conversion in Paul and John | 315 |
11 Biographical Reconstruction Conversion and the Death of the Self in Romans | 342 |
A Cost of Discipleship? The Relationship Between Conversion and Almsgiving for the New Testament Authors | 369 |
Conversion in Mystery Cults and Late Antiquity | 405 |
Conversion and Salvation in Ancient Mystery Cults? | 407 |
Returning in Tannaitic Literature | 145 |
Conversion in Philosophical Traditions | 161 |
A Key Motif in the Stoic Conversion | 163 |
Philosophical Conversion in Plutarchs Moralia and the Cultural Discourses in the Ancient Mediterranean | 203 |
Forms and Functions | 219 |
The Sychar Story as a Standard Conversion Narrative in Heracleons Hypomnemata | 427 |
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