View Chapters

Book: Chasing Down Religion

Chapter: Citations of Biblical Texts in Greek, Jewish and Christian Inscriptions of Late Antiquity: A Case of Religious Demarcation

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.23099

Blurb:

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.

Chapter Contributors

  • Ekaterina Tsalampouni ([email protected] - etsalampouni) 'School of Pastoral and Social Theology, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki'