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The interest in interdisciplinary research on the experience of religious conversion or spiritual transformation grows progressively. In light of this burgeoning area of study, this volume explores conversion or converting experience in the ancient Mediterranean with attention to early Judaism, early Christianity, and philosophy in the Roman empire. The contributions include both historical and philological reconstructions relying on source material and utilizing interdisciplinary approaches. Similarly, the authors analyze the literary use of the motif of conversion, the topic of philosophical conversion as well as ritual, social and embodied aspects of spiritual transformation.
Contents
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Contributors
Introduction
Athanasios Despotis
Part 1: Interdisciplinary Conversion Research
Contemporary Models of Conversion and Identity Transformation
Pierre-Yves Brandt
Using Behavioural Sciences to Understand Early Christian Experiences of Conversion
Rikard Roitto
Part 2: Conversion in Ancient Judaism
The Lost Daughter: A Philological Study on the Scroll of Ruth
Karl-Heinrich Ostmeyer
Conversion within Israel?: An Essay on Old and New in Second Temple Judaism, and on Paul the Convert According to Phil 3:2-4:1
Hermut Löhr
Strategies of Conversion in a Jewish-Orphic Hieros Logos: A Cognitive Approach
Anna Furlan
"Making tešuḇā" (לעשות תשובה): "(Re-)turning" in Tannaitic Literature
Francesco Zanella
Part 3: Conversion in Philosophical Traditions
The Awake and Sober Way of Life: A Key Motif in the Stoic Conversion
Sharon Padilla
Philosophical Conversion in Plutarch's Moralia and the Cultural Discourses in the Ancient Mediterranean
Athanasios Despotis
Conversion to Philosophy in Diogenes Laertius: Forms and Functions
Sergi Grau
Part 4: Conversion in the New Testament
Is There Conversion in the Synoptic Gospels?
Phillip A. Davis Jr.
Metanoia in the Sermon on the Mount - A Philosophical Approach
Raul Heimann
Religious and Philosophical Conversion in Paul and John
Athanasios Despotis
'Consider Yourselves Dead' (Rom 6:11): Biographical Reconstruction, Conversion, and the Death of the Self in Romans
Stephen Chester
What Was the Relationship between Almsgiving and Conversion for the New Testament Authors?
Matthew N. Williams
Part 5: Conversion in Mystery Cults and Late Antiquity
Back to a Classic Debate: Conversion and Salvation in Ancient Mystery Cults?
Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui
The Sychar Story as a Standard Conversion Narrative in Heracleon's Hypomnēmata
Carl Johan Berglund
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