By Cynthia White
The old Romans believed that in basic terms right polytheistic worship may well hold the pax Romana, or Roman Peace. within the first century A.D., a splinter sect of Judaism started to crack this wall, bringing upheaval, persecution, and conversion into the lives of Romans, Jews, Christians, and pagans. This interesting quantity explores the emergence of Christianity in Rome through the first 4 centuries of the Greco-Roman empire, from the 1st fans of Jesus Christ, to conflicts among Christians and Jewish kings less than Roman career, to the torture of Christian fans, Diocletian's reforms, and Constantine's eventual conversion to monotheism, which cemented Christianity's prestige because the professional faith of Rome.
Supplemented by way of photographs, basic rfile excerpts, biographies of key figures, a word list, an annotated bibliography and an index, this quantity is a perfect reference resource for college students and basic readers alike.
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In a further decentralization of Maccabean power, Hyrcanus II was permitted to retain only the office of high priest but was relieved of the title of king. Antipater and Herod: Friends and Allies of Rome Antipater, the chameleonic governor of Idumea, and his son Herod were able to mitigate the impact upon Judea of the tumultuous years of late Republican Rome. They had the uncanny ability to ally themselves with each new leader who emerged from the crumbling Roman Republic, changing loyalties as often as Rome changed governments.
The political ideal of Rome’s sacred mission and her aeternitas, “eternity,” gained momentum, the more so as Philip was considered by some contemporaries to be a practicing Christian. In fact, it was very likely the fear that the steady crumbling of the empire was retribution for the impiety of the Christians that led to his murder. The new emperor Decius, a Pannonian officer and Roman traditionalist, was welcomed by the senate and dubbed a new Trajan. He was staunchly anti-Christian; he even is said to have claimed that he would rather meet a rival emperor in the field than a Christian bishop in Rome.
Next to beautiful temples and statues commissioned by secular 17 21:41 P1: 000 GGBD148C01 18 GR2799/White September 14, 2007 THE EMERGENCE OF CHRISTIANITY aristocrats were the Christian holy places, the basilicas commissioned by Constantine. In the catacombs, especially, pagan and Christian images are (sometimes jarringly) juxtaposed. E. ) who was Constantine’s nephew. As a young boy, he had seen his own father and several male relatives murdered by his Christian relatives in dynastic rivalry. Though he was raised as a Christian he seems to have acquired an abiding love of Greek and Latin literature and philosophy.
