Early Jewish Communities in Asia Minor and the Early Christian Movement

2015 ◽  
pp. 213-232
Author(s):  
Paul Trebilco
Keyword(s):  
Asia Minor ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Early Christian

Jewish Identity and the Intercommunal Links between Diaspora Jewish Communities in the Second Temple Period

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Second Temple Period ◽  
Jerusalem Temple ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple

Abstract Many diaspora communities identify not only with a distant homeland but also with others distant from the homeland. How exactly do these intercommunal connections take place and contribute toward a shared identity? What specific aspects of diasporan identity are created or strengthened? What practices are involved? This study will begin to answer these questions through investigating two practices which were widespread among diaspora Jewish communities during the last two centuries of the Second Temple period (1st cent. B.C.E.–1st cent. C.E.). First, we will show how sending offerings and making pilgrimages to the Jerusalem temple from these communities enabled regular intercommunal contact. Then, we will suggest some ways in which these voluntary practices reinforced a cohesive Jewish identity and the importance of the homeland, especially the city of Jerusalem and the temple, for many diaspora Jews, whether they lived in Alexandria, Rome, Asia Minor, or Babylonia.

Shedding Light on Early Christian Domestic Cult: Characteristics and New Perspectives in the Context of Archaeological Findings

2017 ◽  
Vol 18-19 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-236
Author(s):  
Verena Fugger
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Archaeological Perspective ◽  
Domestic Cult

Abstract Focusing primarily on findings from late antique housing structures in Asia Minor this paper approaches the complex phenomenon of early Christian domestic cult from an archaeological perspective. In correlation to pagan house sanctuaries from the east and west of the Greco-Roman world, Christian domestic cult sites are analyzed according to architectural and decorative features as well as to their spatial distribution in the house. Thereby the synopsis of already well known monuments and recent archaeological findings reveals a great diversity of different characteristics of Christian domestic cult sites which has not been taken into account yet.

Asia Minor

2019 ◽  
pp. 494-513
Author(s):  
Peter Talloen
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Rural Landscapes ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Local Material ◽  
The Impact

The early Christian archaeology of Asia Minor has recently developed into a discipline devoted to the contextualized study of the material remains of early Christianity. It has characterized Asia Minor as a region where—save some notable exceptions from mortuary contexts in Central Anatolia—the impact of the new faith on local material culture only became tangible in the course of the fourth century. During the fifth and sixth centuries Christianity would eventually conquer urban and rural landscapes through church construction in traditional as well as new foci of public space. At this time it also moved into the private sphere as household objects became decorated with Christian images and symbols.

2. Inventing the saints

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Yarrow
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Death Of Jesus ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
The Mediterranean

Sainthood took on its most familiar forms from the death of Jesus c.33 ce to the decades following the Council of Chalcedon in 451 ce. The early Christian church was an urban diaspora spread around the Mediterranean littoral, Hispania, Gaul, Asia Minor, North Africa, and Palestine. But who among these diverse communities were saints? ‘Inventing the saints’ describes the earliest saints as apostles who were ‘sanctified’ through their common associations with Jesus Christ. It outlines persecution, early Christian martyrdom, Donatism, asceticism, monasticism, and eremeticism, and introduces St Paul and St Antony. By the end of the 5th century the martyr, the ascetic, and the confessor had become the most important forms of Christian sainthood.

Paulusrezeption in der Johannesoffenbarung? Auf der Suche nach dem Erbe des Apostels im letzten Buch des biblischen Kanons

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Müller-Fieberg
Keyword(s):  
Asia Minor ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Insight Into

The Revelation of John was written in Asia Minor, a region evangelized by the Apostle Paul. To what degree can traces of Paul's influence still be found at the end of the 1st century—not only with regard to the Seven Churches addressed and their conflicting tendencies, but also with regard to the author of the book of Revelation itself? How can we describe John's attitude towards the perceived legacy of the great missionary to the Gentiles? The answer provides additional insight into the diversity of early Christian life.

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