On Pagans, Jews, and Christians (1987 Momigliano), book

On Pagans, Jews, and Christians (1987) is a book by Arnaldo Momigliano.

Editions and translations

Published in Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Reprinted in Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. Translated into Spanish in Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica: 1992.

Table of contents

• 1. Biblical Studies and Classical Studies: Simple reflections on Historical Method
• 2. Historiography of Religion: Western Views
• 3. The Origins of Universal History
• 4. The Theological Efforts of the Roman Upper Classes in the First Century B.C.
• 5. Religion in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem in the First Century B.C.
• 6. How Roman Emperors Became Gods
• 7. What Josephus Did Not See
• 8. Some Preliminary Remarks on the 'Religious Opposition' to the Roman Empire
• 9. The Disadvantages of Monotheism for a Universal State
• 10. Ancient Biography and the Study of Religion in the Roman Empire
• 11. Roman Religion: The Imperial Period
• 12. The New Letter by 'Anna' to 'Seneca'
• 13. The Life of St. Macrina by Gregory of Nyssa
• 14. A Medieval Jewish Autobiography
• 15. A Note on Max Weber's Definition of Judaism as a Pariah-Religion
• 16. The Jews of Italy
• 17. Gershom Scholem's Autobiography
• 18. How to Reconcile Greeks and Trojans
• 19. Georges Dumezil and the Trifunctional Approach to Roman Civilization

External links

• Google Books (partial text)