Religious rivalries in the early Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity

Table of Contents for Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity , edited by Leif E. Vaage Acknowledgments Preface Part I: Rivalries? Ancient Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success: Christians, Jews, and Others in the Early Roman Empire | Leif E. Vaage The Declining Polis ? Religious Rivalries in Ancient Civic Context | Philip Harland Rivalry and Defection | Stephen Wilson Is the Pagan Fair Fairly Dangerous? Jewish-Pagan Relations in Antiquity Rena Basser My Rival, My Fellow: Conceptual and Methodological Prolegomena to Mapping Inter-religious Relations in 2nd and 3rd Century ce Levantine Society Using the Evidence of Early Rabbinic Texts | Jack Lightstone Part II: Mission? âThe Field God Has Assignedâ: Geography and Mission in Paul | Terence Donaldson The Contra Apionem in Social and Literary Context: An Invitation to Judean Philosophy | Steve Mason On Becoming a Mithraist: New Evidence for the Propagation of the Mysteries | Roger Beck Part III: Rise? Rodney Stark and âThe Mission to the Jewsâ | Adele Reinhartz âLook How They Love One Anotherâ: Early Christian and Pagan Care for the Sick and Other Charity | Steven C. Muir The Religious Market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianityâs Pagan Competition | Roger Beck Why Christianity Succeeded (in) the Roman Empire | Leif E. Vaage Works Cited Ancient Sources Index Ancient Names Index Modern Names Index