From Temple to Church

by Hahn, Johannes

• ISBN13: 9789004131415
• ISBN10: 9004131418
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were aware of these events far-reaching symbolic significance and of their immediate impact as demonstrations of political power and religious conviction. Joined in any temple-destruction are the meaning of the monument, actions taken, and subsequent literary discourse. Paradigms of perception, specific interests, and forms of expression of quite various protagonists clashed. Archaeologists, historians, and historians of religion illuminate temple-destruction from different perspectives, analysing local configurations within larger contexts, both regional and imperial, in order to find an appropriate larger perspective on this phenomenon within the late antique movement from temple to church .

Table of Contents

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"From Temple to Church": Analysing a Late Antique Phenomenon of Transformation	p. 1
Models and Evidence in the Study of Religion in Late Roman Egypt	p. 23
Rechtglaubige - Pagane - Haretiker. Tempelzerstorungen in der Kirchengeschichtsschreibung und das Bild der christlichen Kaiser	p. 43
From Temple to Cell, from Gods to Demons: Pagan Temples in the Monastic Topography of Fourth-Century Egypt	p. 91
The Christianization of Pagan Temples in the Greek Hagiographical Texts	p. 113
Iconoclasm and Christianization in Late Antique Egypt: Christian Treatments of Space and Image	p. 135
Shenoute of Atripe and the Christian Destruction of Temples in Egypt: Rhetoric and Reality	p. 161
Die Zerstorung der Kulte von Philae. Geschichte und Legende am ersten Nilkatarakt	p. 203
The Conversion of the Temple of Aphrodite at Aphroclisias in Context	p. 243
Continuity and Change in the Cultic Topography of Late Antique Palestine	p. 275
Modalitaten der Zerstorung und Christianisierung pharaoniseher Tempelanlagen	p. 299
The Conversion of the Cult Statues: The Destruction of the Serapeum 392 A.D. and the Transformation of Alexandria into the "Christ-Loving" City	p. 335
Index of Ancient Sources
Biblical books	p. 367
Ancient authors and works	p. 367
Inscriptions and graffiti	p. 371
Papyri	p. 372
General Index	p. 373
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