Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Citations of Biblical Texts in Greek, Jewish and Christian Inscriptions of Late Antiquity: A Case of Religious Demarcation
Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Ekaterina Tsalampouni [+]
School of Pastoral and Social Theology, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
TSALAMPOUNI EKATERINI is a Lecturer in the New Testament, School of Pastoral and Social Theology, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She obtained her PhD in 1999 at the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Title: “Macedonia in the New Testament era”. She teaches courses on NT exegesis and theology and the Greco-Roman world and the NT. Research interests: Greco-Roman world and the New Testament, Greco-Roman epigraphy and early Christianity. Member of EABS and SBL.
Description
The purpose of this short study is twofold: first, to provide a systematic presentation of the geographical and chronological diffusion of ancient Christian and Jewish epigraphic texts, of their contexts and of the Biblical books and passages they mostly quote; secondly, by comparing the Jewish and Christian epigraphic evidence and placing it within its broader socio-historical and religious context to discuss a particular aspect of it, namely that in some cases the use of these Biblical quotations served as religious demarcation of individuals or communities.