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Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World (Supplements to Journal of Ancient Judaism, 15) by Nathaniel DesRosiers,‎ Jordan D Rosenblum,‎ Lily Vuong, (Editors), Vandenhoeck &#38; Ruprecht, Supplement edition, 2013.&#160;The essays in this work examine issues related to authority, identity, or change in religious and philosophical traditions of the third century CE. This century is of particular interest because of the political and cultural developments and conflicts that occurred during this period, which in turn drastically changed the social and religious landscape of the Roman world. The specific focus of this volume edited by Jordan D. Rosenblum, Lily Vuong, and Nathaniel DesRosiers is to explore these major creative movements and to examine their strategies for developing and designating orthodoxies and orthopraxies. Contributors were encouraged to analyze or construct the intersections between parallel religious and philosophical communities of the third century, including points of contact either between or among Jews, Christians, pagans, and philosophers. As a result, the discussions of the material contained within this volume are both comparative in nature and interdisciplinary in approach, engaging participants who work in the fields of Religious Studies, Philosophy, History and Archaeology. The overall goal was to explore dialogues between individuals or groups that illuminate the mutual competition and influence that was extant among them, and to put forth a general methodological framework for the study of these ancient dialogues. These religious and philosophical dialogues are not only of great interest and import in their own right, but they also can help us to understand how later cultural and religious developments unfolded.(Text by the editors)&#160;Content:&#160;AcknowledgementsIntroduction&#160;I: Assessing Religious Competition in the Third Century : Methods and ApproachesDaniel C. Ullucci - What Did He Say ? The Ideas of Religious Experts and the 99 %Heidi Marx-Wolf - Pythagoras the Theurgist Porphyry and Iamblichus on the Role of Ritual in the Philosophical LifeArthur P. Urbano - Narratives of Decline and Renewal in the Writing of Philosophical HistorySteven J. Larson - The Trouble with Religious Tolerance in Roman AntiquityKevin M. McGinnis - Sanctifying Interpretation The Christian Interpreter as Priest in OrigenAndrew B. McGowan - Rehashing the Leftovers of Idols Cyprian and Early Christian Constructions of Sacrifice&#160;II: Ritual Space and PracticeGregg E. Gardner - Competitive Giving in the Third Century CE Early Rabbinic Approaches to Greco-Roman Civic BenefactionNathaniel P. DesRosiers - Oath and Anti-Oath Alternating Forms of Community Building in the Third CenturyJordan D. Rosenblum and Daniel C. Ullucci - Qualifying Rabbinic Ritual Agents Cognitive Science and the Early Rabbinic KitchenLily C. Vuong - The Temple Persists Collective Memories of the Jewish Temple in Christian Narrative ImaginationJacob A. Latham - Battling Bishops, the Roman Aristocracy, and the Contestation of Civic Space in Late Antique Rome&#160;III: Modes of CompetitionKaren B. Stern - Inscription as Religious Competition in Third-Century SyriaGil P. Klein - Spatial Struggle Intercity Relations and the Topography of Intra-Rabbinic CompetitionAri Finkelstein - The Use of Jews in Julian’s Program “Dying for the Law” in the Letter to Theodorus – A Case StudyTodd S. Berzon - Heresiology as Ethnography Theorising Christian DifferenceTodd C. Krulak - The Damascian Dichotomy Contention and Concord in the History of Late PlatonismRoss S. Kraemer - Gendering (the) Competition Religious Competition in the Third Century : Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World&#160;List of AbbreviationsCollected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex