{"product_id":"religious-and-philosophical-conversion-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-traditions-9789004501768","title":"Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  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    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210834731351,"sku":"9789004501768","price":144.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religious-and-philosophical-conversion-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-traditions-9789004501768","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}