Heidi Wendt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5441757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Wendt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Wendt |
| SIGNATURE | WENDT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wright State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Partings Never and Pretend
The editors of The Ways That Never Parted made an understandable choice to omit the problem of Christian origins from its reassessment of Jewish-Christian relations. This essay aims to demonstrate how subsequent developments in the fields of New Testament and ancient Mediterranean religion have rendered the first two centuries more amenable to the sort of approaches and insights the volume encouraged. It first makes a case for localizing the disc…
Religion in the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them th…
The ‘Praetorium’ and ‘Caesar’s Household’
Ea Superstitione
This paper situates Roman actions undertaken against Christians amidst an unofficial pattern of measures employed throughout the imperial period to manage the expanding influence of freelance religious experts. Questions about the historical circumstances of martyrdom or persecution tend to proceed from the assumption that Christians were perceived and dealt with as a distinct religious community. However, the penalties alleged by writers such as…
James C. Hanges, Paul, Founder of Churches
James C. Hanges’ new book raises a number of important questions about what it means to situate Paul’s religious activities within his own historical context, and also models one possible methodology for doing so. In this review, I interrogate some of the assumptions underpinning Hanges’ approach, namely, ones having to do with the cultural particularity of certain discourses and religious practices, as well as the utility of the concept “identit…
Ea Superstitione
This paper situates Roman actions undertaken against Christians amidst an unofficial pattern of measures employed throughout the imperial period to manage the expanding influence of freelance religious experts. Questions about the historical circumstances of martyrdom or persecution tend to proceed from the assumption that Christians were perceived and dealt with as a distinct religious community. However, the penalties alleged by writers such as…
Religion in the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them th…
The ‘Praetorium’ and ‘Caesar’s Household’
James C. Hanges, Paul, Founder of Churches
James C. Hanges’ new book raises a number of important questions about what it means to situate Paul’s religious activities within his own historical context, and also models one possible methodology for doing so. In this review, I interrogate some of the assumptions underpinning Hanges’ approach, namely, ones having to do with the cultural particularity of certain discourses and religious practices, as well as the utility of the concept “identit…
Ea Superstitione
This paper situates Roman actions undertaken against Christians amidst an unofficial pattern of measures employed throughout the imperial period to manage the expanding influence of freelance religious experts. Questions about the historical circumstances of martyrdom or persecution tend to proceed from the assumption that Christians were perceived and dealt with as a distinct religious community. However, the penalties alleged by writers such as…
Religion in the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them th…
The ‘Praetorium’ and ‘Caesar’s Household’
Partings Never and Pretend
The editors of The Ways That Never Parted made an understandable choice to omit the problem of Christian origins from its reassessment of Jewish-Christian relations. This essay aims to demonstrate how subsequent developments in the fields of New Testament and ancient Mediterranean religion have rendered the first two centuries more amenable to the sort of approaches and insights the volume encouraged. It first makes a case for localizing the disc…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History of religions (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Christianity (1 work)