The rise of scriptures as the main source of authority was a major shift in the religious culture of the ancient Mediterranean. I examine this shift from the second century BCE to the sixth century CE through a study of the relationship between scriptures and oaths, a competing mode of religious authorization. The traditional perspective, expressed bath in Jewish Second Temple literature and in contemporary Greek culture, saw the covenant (defined as oaths which create adherence to a group) as the foundation of a group's law and/or scripture, and did not differentiate clearly between oath and covenant. After the first century BCE, however, Jewish and Christian writers frequently saw private oaths as challenging the group''s covenants, scrip...
Joosten Jan. Yael Ziegler, Promises to Keep. The Oath in Biblical Literature, (Vetus Testamentum Sup...
LLM, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2017South Africa has a diverse population with var...
International audienceAs a fundamental tool of social cohesion, ancient Greek oath is understood her...
The rise of scriptures as the main source of authority was a major shift in the religious culture of...
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions thr...
Observing that oaths are commonplace and that they are utilized in a variety of situations, the pap...
International audienceFrom the seventh century C.E. on, canonical East-Syrian law developed in the s...
This book is an introduction to the laws of oaths and vows of various types as they appear in biblic...
Research into the phrasing, structure, and nature from the point of view of legal history, as well a...
Whenever and wherever the adjectives ‘secret’ and ‘mysterious’ are used practically as synonymous wi...
This article considers the late antique episcopal prioritization of pragmatism over strict adherence...
Gregory of Nazianzus’s Poemata de seipso as a group are labeled “autobiography” erroneously. 2.1.2 p...
Taking oath is a human act presents in all historical societies. On this basis, this doctoral disser...
Oaths and curses, embedded in a covenantal context, were paramount normative mechanisms in the forei...
Le serment constitue un instrument privilégié pour étalonner la prégnance du domaine religieux allié...
Joosten Jan. Yael Ziegler, Promises to Keep. The Oath in Biblical Literature, (Vetus Testamentum Sup...
LLM, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2017South Africa has a diverse population with var...
International audienceAs a fundamental tool of social cohesion, ancient Greek oath is understood her...
The rise of scriptures as the main source of authority was a major shift in the religious culture of...
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions thr...
Observing that oaths are commonplace and that they are utilized in a variety of situations, the pap...
International audienceFrom the seventh century C.E. on, canonical East-Syrian law developed in the s...
This book is an introduction to the laws of oaths and vows of various types as they appear in biblic...
Research into the phrasing, structure, and nature from the point of view of legal history, as well a...
Whenever and wherever the adjectives ‘secret’ and ‘mysterious’ are used practically as synonymous wi...
This article considers the late antique episcopal prioritization of pragmatism over strict adherence...
Gregory of Nazianzus’s Poemata de seipso as a group are labeled “autobiography” erroneously. 2.1.2 p...
Taking oath is a human act presents in all historical societies. On this basis, this doctoral disser...
Oaths and curses, embedded in a covenantal context, were paramount normative mechanisms in the forei...
Le serment constitue un instrument privilégié pour étalonner la prégnance du domaine religieux allié...
Joosten Jan. Yael Ziegler, Promises to Keep. The Oath in Biblical Literature, (Vetus Testamentum Sup...
LLM, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2017South Africa has a diverse population with var...
International audienceAs a fundamental tool of social cohesion, ancient Greek oath is understood her...