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In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorica... more In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion, Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence, Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space. This regard for ritual sites above other locations rendered the act or mere suggestion of seizing and destroying them powerful weapons in inter-group religious conflicts. Lander demonstrates that the quantity and harshness of discursive and physical attacks on ritual spaces directly correlates to their symbolic value. This heightened valuation reached such a level that rivals were willing to violate conventional Roman norms of property rights to display spatial control. Moreover, Roman Imperial policy eventually appropriated spatial triumphalism as a strategy for negotiating religious conflicts, giving rise to a new form of spatial colonialism that was explicitly religious.
NOTE: I AM SORRY BUT MY CONTRACT WITH CAMBRIDGE DOES NOT ALLOW ME TO UPLOAD A DIGITAL COPY OF THE BOOK.
Festschrift in honor of Prof. Kraemer's retirement from Brown University.
Book Chapters by Shira Lander
The early Christian world v. 2, Jan 1, 2000
Page 306. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE PERPETUA AND FELICITAS Ross S. Kraemer and Shira L. Lander INTRODUCTI... more Page 306. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE PERPETUA AND FELICITAS Ross S. Kraemer and Shira L. Lander INTRODUCTION Within a series of profiles of prominent early Christians, Perpetua and Felicitas differ from the others considered in this volume for several crucial reasons. ...
Articles by Shira Lander
Religious Education, Jan 1, 1996
Our need to reconceptualize the relationship between Judaism and Christianity is born out of an A... more Our need to reconceptualize the relationship between Judaism and Christianity is born out of an American Jewish experience that differs greatly from those of previous generations. As American-born Jews who grew up in relatively small Jewish communities, our identities ...
Review Articles by Shira Lander
Journal of Women's History, Jan 1, 2003
Book Reviews by Shira Lander
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of Solomon. The concluding chapter deals with the employment of "messiah" in rabbinic literature-... more of Solomon. The concluding chapter deals with the employment of "messiah" in rabbinic literature-Mishnah, targums, and Talmuds. His short conclusion precedes indexes of ancient writings, authors, and subjects.
Papers by Shira Lander
Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online
In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorica... more In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion, Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence, Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space. This regard for ritual sites above other locations rendered the act or mere suggestion of seizing and destroying them powerful weapons in inter-group religious conflicts. Lander demonstrates that the quantity and harshness of discursive and physical attacks on ritual spaces directly correlates to their symbolic value. This heightened valuation reached such a level that rivals were willing to violate conventional Roman norms of property rights to display spatial control. Moreover, Roman Imperial policy eventually appropriated spatial triumphalism as a strategy for negotiating religious conflicts, giving rise to a new form of spatial colonialism that was explicitly religious.
NOTE: I AM SORRY BUT MY CONTRACT WITH CAMBRIDGE DOES NOT ALLOW ME TO UPLOAD A DIGITAL COPY OF THE BOOK.
Festschrift in honor of Prof. Kraemer's retirement from Brown University.
The early Christian world v. 2, Jan 1, 2000
Page 306. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE PERPETUA AND FELICITAS Ross S. Kraemer and Shira L. Lander INTRODUCTI... more Page 306. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE PERPETUA AND FELICITAS Ross S. Kraemer and Shira L. Lander INTRODUCTION Within a series of profiles of prominent early Christians, Perpetua and Felicitas differ from the others considered in this volume for several crucial reasons. ...
Religious Education, Jan 1, 1996
Our need to reconceptualize the relationship between Judaism and Christianity is born out of an A... more Our need to reconceptualize the relationship between Judaism and Christianity is born out of an American Jewish experience that differs greatly from those of previous generations. As American-born Jews who grew up in relatively small Jewish communities, our identities ...
Journal of Women's History, Jan 1, 2003
of Solomon. The concluding chapter deals with the employment of "messiah" in rabbinic literature-... more of Solomon. The concluding chapter deals with the employment of "messiah" in rabbinic literature-Mishnah, targums, and Talmuds. His short conclusion precedes indexes of ancient writings, authors, and subjects.
Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online
Scholars have claimed that women played a pivotal role in what is often called "the ... more Scholars have claimed that women played a pivotal role in what is often called "the Christianization of the Roman Empire." In the case of north Africa, women's involvement seemed to center on the martyr cults, which underwent significant changes during the fourth and fifth centuries ...
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2019
Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, 2000
Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, 2000
Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, 2000
Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, 2000
Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, 2000
Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, 2000
Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims, 2011
Journal of Ancient Judaism, 2013
Historians of the ancient synagogue often use the term “conversion” to describe any kind of adapt... more Historians of the ancient synagogue often use the term “conversion” to describe any kind of adaptation of a building once designated as a synagogue into a church. This label oversimplifies and misconstrues complex processes, both rhetorical and architectural, that were at work in transforming the landscape of the late antique Mediterranean. I explore the dynamic of this triumphalist rhetoric and architectural strategy, showing that Christian writers meant something very specific by the term “conversion,” and that they invented the paradigm of synagogue conversion in order to interpret the changing landscape to their readers. The architectural program of replacement as a strategy for converting subject populations to Christianity emerged in the sixth century. By characterizing changes made to building structures and changes in religious belief as “conversion,” imperial policy concretized the association of sacred space transformation with the victory of Christianity over Judaism and paganism.
Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, 2000
"Lot's Wife: On the Dangers of Looking Back"--This paper explores the perils for Jewish-Catholic ... more "Lot's Wife: On the Dangers of Looking Back"--This paper explores the perils for Jewish-Catholic relations of dwelling on the past, both the distant past from antiquity through modernity, and the more recent past since Nostra Aetate. I will explore how collective memory frames the dialogue and how it constrains our imagination to move forward and break new ground. Although much has been accomplished in the past half-century, the Jewish and Catholic adherence to traditional norms and modi operandi may not serve Jewish-Catholic relations as well in the next fifty years as both communities are confronted by sweeping global changes. Relations of the past have focused largely on vertical models of authority while for the most part precariously ignoring the horizontal relationships between parishioners and congregants. This paper will suggest new ways to move forward in Jewish-Catholic relations, ways that account for the fast-paced and worldwide challenges that lie before us.
Religious Violence in a Post-9/11 World
In the fourth–sixth centuries, the urban landscape of the Roman empire, with its vaunted architec... more In the fourth–sixth centuries, the urban landscape of the Roman empire, with its vaunted architectural achievements, underwent profound transformation. North African city centers at the intersection of their main arteries shifted, old buildings were refurbished for new purposes, new buildings rose from grounds once considered unsuitable, and walls were built that redefined the city limits. Once seen by modern scholars as an abrupt change, a direct consequence of the collapse and Christianization of the Roman empire, this transformation has more recently been understood as a far more gradual process prompted by economic and demographic changes. Yet early Christian historiographers construed the customary mechanisms of spatial transformation – imperial largess, disuse, reuse, use of spolia, changes in ownership, architectural alterations, to name just a few – in religious terms. Christian opinion-shapers characterized these nonviolent spatial activities as hostile takeovers and intentional destruction. Christian literary sources from this period construe spatial transformation as the defeat of Judaism and what they refer to as “paganism.” Christian leaders seized the opportunity afforded by temple abandonment and synagogue decline to promote their imagined interpretation of the shifting landscape, the victory of Christianity. This imaginal map was useful for securing imperial support, asserting authority, as well as negotiating and patrolling group boundaries. This paper will discuss a single "pagan" example from Carthage, the Caelestis temple, to lay the rhetorical foundation of spatial supersession and show how the technique was deployed for the synagogue at Tipasa. Whether the archaeological evidence from synagogues at Leptis Magna and Hammam Lif support the theory of synagogue conversion will then be considered.