Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome

Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome......Page 3
Table of contents......Page 5
Introduction: Religion and law in classical and Christian Rome......Page 7
1. Oral tradition and written tradition in the formation of sacred law in Rome (J. Scheid)......Page 14
2 The modern myth of the Priesterbücher......Page 15
3 Oral tradition and written texts in Roman religion......Page 17
4 The commentarii of the Roman priests......Page 19
5 The pontifical regulae......Page 20
6 Regulations about impiety......Page 22
7 Noxae deditio......Page 27
8 Civil theology......Page 30
9 The commentaries of sacred law......Page 33
1 Lex Coloniae luliae Genetivae: General remarks......Page 34
2 The concept of religion......Page 35
3 The calendar of festivals......Page 38
4 Space......Page 39
5 Choice of cults......Page 40
6 Priesthoods......Page 42
8 Conclusion......Page 45
3. Magic, Religion, and Law: The Case of the Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis (J. B. Rives)......Page 47
1 The disputed definition of veneficium......Page 49
2 Carmina, devotiones and mala sacrificia......Page 54
3 Magi and the ars magica......Page 59
4 The lex Cornelia, The Opinions of Paulus and religious deviance......Page 64
4. Religion, Law and the Roman Polity: The Era of the Great Persecution (E. DePalma Digeser)......Page 68
1 Religious law and community identity......Page 69
3 Neoplatonism, law and identity......Page 70
4 Christianity, law and identity......Page 73
6 The Neoplatonist view......Page 75
7 Early fourth-century Christian views......Page 78
8 Augustine\'s break with the past......Page 82
1 Introduction: Religious Identity and the Law in Late Ancient Christianity......Page 85
2 : scholarly framing of the Collatio......Page 88
3 : reconsidering the Collatio and Christianity......Page 91
4 Two Tablets, Twelve Tables: Ambrosiaster on the law......Page 95
5 Conclusions: context, comparisons, and collation......Page 98
1 Dangerous religion? Modern democracies between religious liberty and regulation......Page 100
2 Bad religion? Asebeia, superstitio, and magic......Page 103
3 Religion under suspicion: the fear of conspiracies......Page 105
4 Religious policy as means of totalitarian rule......Page 109
5 Some consequences......Page 113
2 The legal basis till Constantine......Page 115
3 Religious policy under Constantine......Page 117
4 Legal justifications of a persecution of heretics......Page 118
5 Examples for legal persecutions of heretics......Page 120
6 Definitions of orthodoxy by Theodosius I......Page 121
7 Peak of the imperial definition of orthodoxy under Justinian I......Page 124
8 Conclusion......Page 125
1 Classical language and Christian religion in the codification of law......Page 126
2 Lex est ratio summa......Page 132
3 Ius publicum: an archaeology......Page 134
4 Law among human and divine matters......Page 140
5 Classical social theory and Christian metaphysics......Page 142
Abbreviations of Journals, Reference works, etc.......Page 147
Works Cited......Page 149
Abstracts......Page 161
Ambrosiaster......Page 165
CIL......Page 166
Flavius Iosephus......Page 167
Lucan......Page 168
Porphyrius......Page 169
aequitas......Page 170
Bithynia......Page 171
Cramer, F.......Page 172
Ideology......Page 173
Mount Sinai......Page 174
religio......Page 175
Tomb regulations......Page 176
POTSDAMER ALTERTUMSWISSENSCHAFTLICHE BEITRÄGE......Page 177