Ancient Religions titles from University of California Press

Ancient World (Classics)

When Christians First Met Muslims by Michael Philip Penn

When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam

by Michael Philip Penn (Author)
March 2015
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There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ by Michael Gaddis

There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire

by Michael Gaddis (Author)
March 2015
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Migrating Tales: The Talmud’s Narratives and Their Historical Context

by Richard Kalmin (Author)
September 2014
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Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital

by Neil B. McLynn (Author)
June 2014
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Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace

by Amanda J. Lucia (Author)
March 2014
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Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature

by Mira Balberg (Author)
February 2014
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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

by Peter Brown (Author)
November 2013
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Doctrine and Power by Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho

Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire

by Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho (Author)
September 2013
Hardcover $75.00, £62.00|
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Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity by Claudia Rapp

Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition

by Claudia Rapp (Author)
August 2013
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Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece

by Sarah Iles Johnston (Author)
August 2013
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Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty by Ariel G. Lopez

Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt

by Ariel G. Lopez (Author)
February 2013
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Theodoret's People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria

by Adam M. Schor (Author)
May 2011
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Pseudo Hecataeus, On the Jews by Bezalel Bar-Kochva

Pseudo Hecataeus, On the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora

by Bezalel Bar-Kochva (Author)
May 2010
Paperback $36.95, £31.00

Civic Rites: Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens

by Nancy Evans (Author)
May 2010
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City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria

by Edward J. Watts (Author)
September 2008
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The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire

by Clifford Ando (Author)
February 2008
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Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity

by David Sedley (Author)
January 2008
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The Seer in Ancient Greece

by Michael Flower (Author)
January 2008
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The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia by Mark H. Munn

The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion

by Mark H. Munn (Author)
July 2006
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A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450)

by Fergus Millar (Author)
July 2006
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The Legend of Mar Qardagh by Joel Walker

The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq

by Joel Walker (Author)
April 2006
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Encountering the Sacred by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony

Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity

by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony (Author)
December 2005
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Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity by Sara Raup Johnson

Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context

by Sara Raup Johnson (Author)
February 2005
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Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece

by Barbara Goff (Author)
June 2004
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Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space by Susan Guettel Cole

Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience

by Susan Guettel Cole (Author)
March 2004
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Heritage and Hellenism by Erich S. Gruen

Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition

by Erich S. Gruen (Author)
February 2002
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Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity

by David Dawson (Author)
December 2001
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Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives by Blake Leyerle

Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom's Attack on Spiritual Marriage

by Blake Leyerle (Author)
July 2001
Hardcover $63.00, £52.00

Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones

by Carlin A. Barton (Author)
June 2001
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Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium

by Glenn Peers (Author)
February 2001
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The Beginnings of Jewishness by Shaye J. D. Cohen

The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties

by Shaye J. D. Cohen (Author)
January 2001
Paperback $31.95, £27.00

The Living Goddesses

by Marija Gimbutas (Author), Miriam R. Dexter (Editor)
January 2001
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The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper

by James W. McKinnon (Author)
October 2000
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The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity

by Georgia Frank (Author)
May 2000
Hardcover $63.00, £52.00

The Barbarian Plain by Elizabeth Key Fowden

The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran

by Elizabeth Key Fowden (Author)
November 1999
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Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems

by Dennis E. Trout (Author)
October 1999
Hardcover $68.95, £57.00

In Search of God the Mother by Lynn E. Roller

In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele

by Lynn E. Roller (Author)
July 1999
Hardcover $84.00, £69.00

Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt

by Philip Rousseau (Author)
July 1999
Paperback $33.95, £28.00

Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora by John M. G. Barclay

Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE–117 CE)

by John M. G. Barclay (Author)
February 1999
Paperback $38.95

Holy Women of the Syrian Orient

August 1998
Paperback $29.95, £25.00

Religion in Hellenistic Athens

by Jon D. Mikalson (Author)
June 1998
Hardcover $68.95, £57.00

Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity

by Beverly Mayne Kienzle (Editor), Pamela J. Walker (Editor)
April 1998
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Basil of Caesarea

by Philip Rousseau (Author)
February 1998
Paperback $38.95, £32.00

Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World

by Kent J. Rigsby (Author)
March 1997
Hardcover $131.95, £109.00

Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire by Averil Cameron

Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse

by Averil Cameron (Author)
December 1994
Paperback $33.95, £28.00

Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul

by Raymond Van Dam (Author)
March 1992
Paperback $33.95, £28.00

Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria

by David Dawson (Author)
December 1991
Hardcover $68.95, £57.00

Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection

by Carole Straw (Author)
September 1991
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Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

by Peter Brown (Author)
October 1989
Paperback $33.95

Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual

by Walter Burkert (Author)
November 1982
Paperback $30.95, £26.00