Studies in the cult of Yahweh.

Studies in the cult of Yahweh. Volume 2, New Testament, early Christianity, and magica /

These two volumes collect some of the most influential and important scholarly essays by the late Morton Smith (1915-1991), for many years Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City. Smith was admired and feared for his extraordinary ability to look at familiar texts in unf...

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Main Author: Smith, Morton, 1915-1991.

Other Authors: Cohen, Shaye J. D.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 130/2.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, ISBN: 9789004299672.

Subjects:

To 70
Judaism > History > To 70 A.D.
Jews.
Judaism.
Religion.
Middle East > Religion.
Middle East.
History.

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Call Number: BM165 .S64 1996

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • PROLEGOMENA TO A DISCUSSION OF ARETALOGIES, DIVINE MEN, THE GOSPELS AND JESUS
  • ON THE HISTORY OF THE 'DIVINE MAN'
  • MESSIAHS: ROBBERS, JURISTS, PROPHETS
  • ASCENT TO THE HEAVENS AND THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIANITY
  • TWO ASCENDED TO HEAVEN-JESUS AND THE AUTHOR OF 4Q491
  • THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE TRANSFIGURATION STORY
  • THE REASON FOR THE PERSECUTION OF PAUL AND THE OBSCURITY OF ACTS
  • PAULINE WORSHIP AS SEEN BY PAGANS
  • PAUL'S ARGUMENTS AS EVIDENCE OF THE CHRISTIANITY FROM WHICH HE DIVERGED
  • TRANSFORMATION BY BURIAL (1 COR 15:35-49; ROM 6:3-5 AND 8:9-11)
  • SALVATION IN THE GOSPELS, PAUL, AND THE MAGICAL PAPYRI
  • THE ACCOUNT OF SIMON MAGUS IN ACTS 8
  • PLUTARCH, DE SUPERSTITIONE (MORALIA 164E-171F)
  • THE HISTORY OF THE TERM GNOSTIKOS
  • ON THE HISTORY OF AΠOKAΛYΠTΩ AND AΠOKAΛYΨIΣ
  • HOW MAGIC WAS CHANGED BY THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY
  • THE EIGHTH BOOK OF MOSES AND HOW IT GREW (PLEID. J 39
  • P LEID J 395 (PGM XIII) AND ITS CREATION LEGEND
  • A NOTE ON SOME JEWISH ASSIMILATIONISTS: THE ANGELS (P. BERLIN 5025b, P. LOUVRE 2391)
  • THE JEWISH ELEMENTS IN THE MAGICAL PAPYRI
  • WRITINGS OF MORTON SMITH
  • IN MEMORIAM MORTON SMITH
  • INDEX
  • RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD.