Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity: An Introduction

Bibliographic Essay

Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity: A Bibliographic Essay

Jews and Samaritans

Third Century Jews and Judaism at Beth Shearim and Dura Europus

Artistic Trends and Contact between Jews and 'Others' in Late Antique Sepphoris: Recent Research

Archaeological Aspects of Samaritan Research in Israel

Orthodoxy and Heresy

The Limits of the Heresiological Ethos in Late Antiquity

Archaeology and the 'Arian Controversy' in the Fourth Century

Where is the Archaeology and Iconography of Germanic Arianism?

Popular Piety

The Archaeology of Pilgrimage: Abu Mina and Beyond

The Archaeology of the Stylite

Magic and Religion

Magic and Syncretic Religious Culture in the East

Magic in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of Magical Gems

Sacred and Secular

The Use of Secularised Latin Pagan Culture by Christians

The Sacred and the Secular: The Presence or Absence of Christian Religious Thought in Secular Writing in the Late Antique West

Literary Genre or Religious Apathy? The Presence or Absence of Theology and Religious Thought in Secular Writing in the Late Antique East

John Chrysostom's Audiences and His Accusations of Religious Laxity

Abstracts in French

Index

Erratum

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