The reviewer says, inter alia, that "Harland's most valuable contribution is to weave together his critical reading of areas that have generated particular academic interest in recent years -- Greco-Roman associations, the Roman imperial cult, and synagogues and churches during the formative period of Judaism and Christianity. In so doing, he succeeds in challenging a simplistic reading of early Judaeo-Christianity as self-enclosed sectarian groups, in favour of a more complex picture that allows for a spectrum of group-society interaction, ranging from the sectarian to the moderately integrated."
Monday, June 27, 2005
Review of Harland, Associations, Synagogues
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review has just published a review ofPhilip A. Harland, Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 399. ISBN 0-8006-3589-2. $22.00. You can read the review Here.
The reviewer says, inter alia, that "Harland's most valuable contribution is to weave together his critical reading of areas that have generated particular academic interest in recent years -- Greco-Roman associations, the Roman imperial cult, and synagogues and churches during the formative period of Judaism and Christianity. In so doing, he succeeds in challenging a simplistic reading of early Judaeo-Christianity as self-enclosed sectarian groups, in favour of a more complex picture that allows for a spectrum of group-society interaction, ranging from the sectarian to the moderately integrated."
The reviewer says, inter alia, that "Harland's most valuable contribution is to weave together his critical reading of areas that have generated particular academic interest in recent years -- Greco-Roman associations, the Roman imperial cult, and synagogues and churches during the formative period of Judaism and Christianity. In so doing, he succeeds in challenging a simplistic reading of early Judaeo-Christianity as self-enclosed sectarian groups, in favour of a more complex picture that allows for a spectrum of group-society interaction, ranging from the sectarian to the moderately integrated."
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