Douglas R Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas R Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas R |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puget Sound |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructing the World of Roman Palestine
Language and Writing in Early Roman Galilee
Excavations at Sepphoris, Volume 1
Religion and society in Roman Palestine
"This collection of papers combines important archaeological and textual evidence to examine diverse aspects of religion and society in Roman Palestine. A range of international experts provides an unprecedented look at issues of acculturation, assimilation and the preservation of difference in the multicultural climate of Palestine in the Roman period. Key themes include the nature of ethnicity and ritual, the character of public and private spa…
Direct dating of plaster and mortar using AMS Radiocarbon
The authors demonstrate the potential for dating structures in Near Eastern archaeology by applying AMS radiocarbon to organic inclusions found in mortar and plaster. The method was successfully applied to date and sequence excavated walls and floors, and to spot-date structures exposed in surveys
Archaeology and the Galilee
Cosmic Connections
Images of the divine world permeated ancient society. Connecting with the divine world was serious business and occupied persons at almost every level. Members of elite classes in the Greek East and those associated with them actively sought the continuing benevolence of a god or gods. Many appropriated symbols associated with the divine world to bolster, maintain, or redefine their relation to political, social, and economic arenas of power. The…
The Power of the Future
Symbols associated with the future occurred through media with longstanding traditions. Oracles, prophecies, votive offerings, cultic practices of the mystery cults, architecture, tombs, games, festivals, and treaties often framed images and symbols of the future that informed or expressed concerns that persons had in the present. Symbols of the future in antiquity often centered on “personal religion” or personal piety that sought salvation “thr…
Conclusion
Subject Comparative Religion Judaism and Jewish Studies Classical Reception Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Title Pages
The Power of the Past
How are we to interpret the role of tradition in the Greek East? Does a core of inherited cultural traits pass from generation to generation, or do persons symbolically construct the past to speak to the present? Individuals who copied Homeric themes in literature or emulated the sculptural programs of fifth-century Greek sculptors did not receive a static and clearly articulated tradition. Certainly, the artists of antiquity believed they had ap…
The Power Game
Between Augustus and Hadrian, something changed in the Greek East. A century and a half of imperial rule had altered both the nature of Roman rule and the manner in which those in the Greek East responded to it. Imperial power still revolved around the emperor, a power based on decades of precedents. Senators and equestrians from Italy continued to play important roles in the maintenance of the empire. Yet, the faces and families who ruled had ch…
Cosmic Power Brokers
The divine world played an important role in the plethora of symbolic discourses between groups and individuals throughout the Roman Empire. Such activity needed interpreters and some system within which such agents could properly broker the power of the divine for the less informed. These agents were seen by groups as possessing special connections to the divine and sometimes were viewed as divine themselves. “That is why we even worship those p…
Religion and the Symbolics of Power
Religious symbols permeated the Roman world. Visual displays and rhetorical flourishes on public and private monuments, coins and in literary texts provide ample testimony for the ways local elites in the Greek East acquired or consolidated power during imperial Roman rule. Local elites and their affiliates had at their disposal many religious symbols (the “symbolics of power”) to mediate the intersection between religion, society, and politics. …
Geography and the Sacred
Defining space plays a significant role in human society. How a people interpret their geographic surroundings illuminates how they perceive their world and their place in it. Territories (whether a site, a city, a region, or even an empire) were not neutral entities in the Graeco-Roman world. Often they were viewed as “having a relationship with the cosmos, religiously oriented and pervaded with sanctity. “
Citations
Subject Comparative Religion Judaism and Jewish Studies Classical Reception Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Religion & Power
This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern ‘Greek’ provinces in the first and second centuries A.D. - the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose is to show how the local elite classes appropriated and manipulated mythic and religious images and practices …
Defining the Web of Power in Asia Minor
Journal Article Defining the Web of Power in Asia Minor: The Novelist Chariton and his City Aphrodisias Get access Douglas R. Edwards Douglas R. Edwards Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 699–718, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.3.699 Published: 01 October 1994
Gentiles, Court of the
A portion of Her od’s temple square open to Jews and gentiles. An enclosure or barrier (Gk druphaktos; Heb soreg) surrounded the inner sanctuary beyond which gentiles were forbidden to go. Tablets written in Greek and Latin were apparently placed at thirteen entrances on the low parapet that marked
Gennesaret (Place)
[Gk Gennesaret]. 1. A plain thirty stadia long and 20 stadia wide (3.5 × 1.5 miles) on the NW side of the Sea of Galilee between ancient Tiberias and Capernaum (Ant 3.521). As part of the rift valley, the plain is located 200 m (660 ft.) below sea level. Apparently, one of three branches of the Via
Dress And Ornamentation
Dress provides important social and cultural information concerning status, power, group identity, manufacture, and trade. The significant role played by clothing in ancient society is apparent in the biblical writers who use dress metaphorically to make ethical exhortations or take theological posi
Religion & Power
This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern ‘Greek’ provinces in the first and second centuries A.D. - the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose is to show how the local elite classes appropriated and manipulated mythic and religious images and practices …
Direct dating of plaster and mortar using AMS Radiocarbon
The authors demonstrate the potential for dating structures in Near Eastern archaeology by applying AMS radiocarbon to organic inclusions found in mortar and plaster. The method was successfully applied to date and sequence excavated walls and floors, and to spot-date structures exposed in surveys
Defining the Web of Power in Asia Minor
Journal Article Defining the Web of Power in Asia Minor: The Novelist Chariton and his City Aphrodisias Get access Douglas R. Edwards Douglas R. Edwards Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 699–718, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.3.699 Published: 01 October 1994
Gentiles, Court of the
A portion of Her od’s temple square open to Jews and gentiles. An enclosure or barrier (Gk druphaktos; Heb soreg) surrounded the inner sanctuary beyond which gentiles were forbidden to go. Tablets written in Greek and Latin were apparently placed at thirteen entrances on the low parapet that marked
Gennesaret (Place)
[Gk Gennesaret]. 1. A plain thirty stadia long and 20 stadia wide (3.5 × 1.5 miles) on the NW side of the Sea of Galilee between ancient Tiberias and Capernaum (Ant 3.521). As part of the rift valley, the plain is located 200 m (660 ft.) below sea level. Apparently, one of three branches of the Via
Dress And Ornamentation
Dress provides important social and cultural information concerning status, power, group identity, manufacture, and trade. The significant role played by clothing in ancient society is apparent in the biblical writers who use dress metaphorically to make ethical exhortations or take theological posi
Defining the Web of Power in Asia Minor
Journal Article Defining the Web of Power in Asia Minor: The Novelist Chariton and his City Aphrodisias Get access Douglas R. Edwards Douglas R. Edwards Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 699–718, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.3.699 Published: 01 October 1994
Cosmic Connections
Images of the divine world permeated ancient society. Connecting with the divine world was serious business and occupied persons at almost every level. Members of elite classes in the Greek East and those associated with them actively sought the continuing benevolence of a god or gods. Many appropriated symbols associated with the divine world to bolster, maintain, or redefine their relation to political, social, and economic arenas of power. The…
The Power of the Future
Symbols associated with the future occurred through media with longstanding traditions. Oracles, prophecies, votive offerings, cultic practices of the mystery cults, architecture, tombs, games, festivals, and treaties often framed images and symbols of the future that informed or expressed concerns that persons had in the present. Symbols of the future in antiquity often centered on “personal religion” or personal piety that sought salvation “thr…
Conclusion
Subject Comparative Religion Judaism and Jewish Studies Classical Reception Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Title Pages
The Power of the Past
How are we to interpret the role of tradition in the Greek East? Does a core of inherited cultural traits pass from generation to generation, or do persons symbolically construct the past to speak to the present? Individuals who copied Homeric themes in literature or emulated the sculptural programs of fifth-century Greek sculptors did not receive a static and clearly articulated tradition. Certainly, the artists of antiquity believed they had ap…
The Power Game
Between Augustus and Hadrian, something changed in the Greek East. A century and a half of imperial rule had altered both the nature of Roman rule and the manner in which those in the Greek East responded to it. Imperial power still revolved around the emperor, a power based on decades of precedents. Senators and equestrians from Italy continued to play important roles in the maintenance of the empire. Yet, the faces and families who ruled had ch…
Cosmic Power Brokers
The divine world played an important role in the plethora of symbolic discourses between groups and individuals throughout the Roman Empire. Such activity needed interpreters and some system within which such agents could properly broker the power of the divine for the less informed. These agents were seen by groups as possessing special connections to the divine and sometimes were viewed as divine themselves. “That is why we even worship those p…
Religion and the Symbolics of Power
Religious symbols permeated the Roman world. Visual displays and rhetorical flourishes on public and private monuments, coins and in literary texts provide ample testimony for the ways local elites in the Greek East acquired or consolidated power during imperial Roman rule. Local elites and their affiliates had at their disposal many religious symbols (the “symbolics of power”) to mediate the intersection between religion, society, and politics. …
Geography and the Sacred
Defining space plays a significant role in human society. How a people interpret their geographic surroundings illuminates how they perceive their world and their place in it. Territories (whether a site, a city, a region, or even an empire) were not neutral entities in the Graeco-Roman world. Often they were viewed as “having a relationship with the cosmos, religiously oriented and pervaded with sanctity. “
Citations
Subject Comparative Religion Judaism and Jewish Studies Classical Reception Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Religion & Power
This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern ‘Greek’ provinces in the first and second centuries A.D. - the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose is to show how the local elite classes appropriated and manipulated mythic and religious images and practices …
Archaeology and the Galilee
Direct dating of plaster and mortar using AMS Radiocarbon
The authors demonstrate the potential for dating structures in Near Eastern archaeology by applying AMS radiocarbon to organic inclusions found in mortar and plaster. The method was successfully applied to date and sequence excavated walls and floors, and to spot-date structures exposed in surveys
Religion and society in Roman Palestine
"This collection of papers combines important archaeological and textual evidence to examine diverse aspects of religion and society in Roman Palestine. A range of international experts provides an unprecedented look at issues of acculturation, assimilation and the preservation of difference in the multicultural climate of Palestine in the Roman period. Key themes include the nature of ethnicity and ritual, the character of public and private spa…
Constructing the World of Roman Palestine
Language and Writing in Early Roman Galilee
Excavations at Sepphoris, Volume 1
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