I’m finishing up a great collection of essays in a 1999 OUP book called Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity. You should check it out if you’re interested in early Jewish, Christian, or Greco-Roman monotheism. Here’s the table of contents:
Introduction, Polymnia Athanassiadi and Michael Frede
Towards Monotheism, M. L. West
Monotheism and Pagan Philosophy in Later Antiquity, Michael Frede
Monotheism in the Gnostic Tradition, John Dillon
The Cult of Theos Hypsistos between Pagans, Jews, and Christians, Stephen Mitchell
The Chaldaean Oracles: Theology and Theurgy, Polymnia Athanassiadi
The Significance of the Speech of Praetextatus, Wolf Liebeschuetz
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March 23rd, 2011 at 1:36 pm
I’ve had this volume for a while now but I haven’t had the chance to do more than glance at it. I’ll have to get into it sooner than later.
March 24th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Daniel,
By what dates do they define “late antiquity”?
March 24th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
I haven’t seen it spelled out yet, but most of the papers are discussing the Roman Period.
March 27th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
I always thought ‘late antiquity’ defined the period between the christianization of the empire and the rise of islam, but memory doesn’t serve to tell me where i got that from.
March 27th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
People define it differently. It’s not really set in stone anywhere.
June 4th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
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