Ittai Gradel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4166535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ittai Gradel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ittai |
| FAMILY NAME | Gradel |
| SIGNATURE | GRADEL I |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Lost Novel of King Solomon and the Demons
In this study, Ittai Gradel and Nils Arne Pedersen develop a new approach to the apocryphal Testament of Solomon by combining archaeology and textual analysis. The starting point is a group of ten 3rd-century rings, each inscribed in Greek: »Solomon says: 'Watch out!'« The phrase, puzzling as an apotropaic formula, makes sense only in light of the Testament of Solomon, where the king, empowered by a divine ring, subjugates demons. In a climactic …
Emperor Worship and Ron1an Religion
While Roman religion worshipped a number of gods, one kind in particular aroused the fury of early Christians and the wonder of scholars: the cult of Roman emperors alive or dead. Was the divinity of emperors a glue that held the Empire together? Were rulers such as Julius Caesar and Caligula simply mad to expect such worship of themselves? Or was it rather a phenomenon which has only been rendered incomprehensible by modern and monotheistic idea…
De moribus persecutorum
Om baggrunden for de romerske kristenforfølgelserGeneral remarks are presented on the subject of traditional Roman cults, and it is e.g. argued that the term "religion" is christianizing, and therefore usually leads to misunderstanding when applied to these cults, most clearly so in the field of emperor worship. This is symptomatic of the numerous methodological pitfalls involved in studying this phenomenon n particular and pagan Roman mentality …
Kejserkult i den romerske husstand
A recurrent statement in scholarship on the Roman imperial cult has been that the phenomenon was but a political expression of loyalty towards the emperor, involving little “truly religious” sentiment for the worshippers. According to this argument, the cult was almost exclusively a public phenomenon. Private emperor worship has received surprisingly little attention from scholarship, but even in the unequivocally private sphere of the Roman hous…
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Kejserkult i den romerske husstand
A recurrent statement in scholarship on the Roman imperial cult has been that the phenomenon was but a political expression of loyalty towards the emperor, involving little “truly religious” sentiment for the worshippers. According to this argument, the cult was almost exclusively a public phenomenon. Private emperor worship has received surprisingly little attention from scholarship, but even in the unequivocally private sphere of the Roman hous…
De moribus persecutorum
Om baggrunden for de romerske kristenforfølgelserGeneral remarks are presented on the subject of traditional Roman cults, and it is e.g. argued that the term "religion" is christianizing, and therefore usually leads to misunderstanding when applied to these cults, most clearly so in the field of emperor worship. This is symptomatic of the numerous methodological pitfalls involved in studying this phenomenon n particular and pagan Roman mentality …
Emperor Worship and Ron1an Religion
While Roman religion worshipped a number of gods, one kind in particular aroused the fury of early Christians and the wonder of scholars: the cult of Roman emperors alive or dead. Was the divinity of emperors a glue that held the Empire together? Were rulers such as Julius Caesar and Caligula simply mad to expect such worship of themselves? Or was it rather a phenomenon which has only been rendered incomprehensible by modern and monotheistic idea…
The Lost Novel of King Solomon and the Demons
In this study, Ittai Gradel and Nils Arne Pedersen develop a new approach to the apocryphal Testament of Solomon by combining archaeology and textual analysis. The starting point is a group of ten 3rd-century rings, each inscribed in Greek: »Solomon says: 'Watch out!'« The phrase, puzzling as an apotropaic formula, makes sense only in light of the Testament of Solomon, where the king, empowered by a divine ring, subjugates demons. In a climactic …
Ancient history (3 works) · Emperor (3 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (3 works) · History (3 works) · Phenomenon (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Worship (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works)