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Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire (Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion ; 1922) - Hardcover
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This is a controversial and important new examination of the origins of Christian mission, set against the background of ancient Judaism and the pagan culture of the Roman Empire. The author's conclusions suggest that mission was not inherent to either early Judaism or Christianity, and was only sporadically practiced in antiquity by these religions. Clear, accessible, and at the same time displaying considerable scholarship, this book will provide an important challenge and a stimulus to both theologians and historians. In invites a total reconsideration of the grounds for religious conversion in both Christianity and Judaism.
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This book tackles a central problem of religious history: proselytizing by Jews and pagans in the ancient world, and the origins of mission in the early Church. Martin Goodman argues that mission is not an inherent religious instinct, that in antiquity it was found only sporadically among Jews and pagans, and even Christians rarely stressed its importance in the early centuries.
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Martin Goodman is Reader in Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wolfson College and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0198149417
- ISBN 13 9780198149415
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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