Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. By Malcolm Choat
This is a useful guide to current thinking about the implications of cultic terminology (such as terms for religious office-holders) and statements of religious belief in fourth-century documentary papyri (Greek and Coptic). Malcolm Choat cautiously concludes that most general expressions of belief...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 806-807 |
| Review of: | Belief and cult in fourth-century papyri (Turnhout : Brepols, 2006) (Gould, Graham)
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| Summary: | This is a useful guide to current thinking about the implications of cultic terminology (such as terms for religious office-holders) and statements of religious belief in fourth-century documentary papyri (Greek and Coptic). Malcolm Choat cautiously concludes that most general expressions of belief in God (or a god) and most prayer formulae of the sort found in letters are uncertain indicators of the religious community to which their authors belonged, but (unsurprisingly) that during the fourth century terminology indicative of or compatible with Christian belief becomes more common and the hypothesis of Christian authorship in any particular case correspondingly more likely. The notes are very detailed: readers interested in the bearing of particular papyrus letters, e.g. P. Lond. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm062 |