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Title From temple to church [electronic resource] : destruction and renewal of local cultic topography in late antiquity / edited by Johannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel & Ulrich Gotter.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

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Description xi, 378 p. : ill.
Series Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 163
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 163.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents "From temple to church" : analysing a late antique phenomenon of transformation / Stephen Emmel, Ulrich Gotter and Johannes Hahn -- Models and evidence in the study of religion in late Roman Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- Rechtglaubige-Pagane-Haretiker : Tempelzerstorungen in der Kerchengeschichtsschreibung und das bild der christlichen Kaiser / Ulrich Gotter -- From temple to cell, from gods to demons : pagan temples in the monastic topography of fourth-century Egypt / David Brakke -- The Christianization of pagan temples in the Greek hagiographical texts / Helen Saradi -- Iconoclasm and Christianization in late antique Egypt : Christian treatments of space and image / David Frankfurter -- Shenoute of Atripe and the Christian destruction of temples in Egypt : rhetoric and reality / Stephen Emmel -- Die Zerstorung der Kulte von Philae : Geschichte und Legende am ersten Nilkatarakt / Johannes Hahn -- The conversion of the temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in context / Angelos Chaniotis -- Continuity and change in the cultic topography of late antique Palestine / Doron Bar -- Modalitaten der Zerstorung und Christianisierung pharaonischer Tempelanlagen / Peter Grossmann -- The conversion of the cult statues : the destruction of the Serapeum 392 A.D. and the transformation of Alexandria into the "Christ-loving" city / Johannes Hahn.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Language English and German.
Subject Christianity and other religions.
Temples.
Religion -- History.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hahn, Johannes, 1957-
Emmel, Stephen.
Gotter, Ulrich.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004131415 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004131418 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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