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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 September 2020
      01 October 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108860215
      9781108494908
      9781108816557
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108860215
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 448 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 448 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Church History
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    Much like our world today, Late Antiquity (fourth-seventh centuries CE) is often seen as a period rife with religious violence, not least because the literary sources are full of stories of Christians attacking temples, statues and 'pagans'. However, using insights from Religious Studies, recent studies have demonstrated that the Late Antique sources disguise a much more intricate reality. The present volume builds on this recent cutting-edge scholarship on religious violence in Late Antiquity in order to come to more nuanced judgments about the nature of the violence. At the same time, the focus on Late Antiquity has taken away from the fact that the phenomenon was no less prevalent in the earlier Graeco-Roman world. This book is therefore the first to bring together scholars with expertise ranging from classical Athens to Late Antiquity to examine the phenomenon in all its complexity and diversity throughout Antiquity.

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    ‘Dijkstra and Raschle and all other authors may be congratulated on this valuable collection on a theme that, unfortunately, is still more topical than one would wish.’

    Riemer Roukema Source: Review of Biblical Literature

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