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Religion at Carthage 800 BCE-439 CE

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This volume investigates the rich spectrum of religious practices and beliefs at Carthage from its foundation until the end of Roman rule. Essays analyse the metropolis’s Phoenician, Punic, and Gra...
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  • 04 December 2025
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This volume investigates the rich spectrum of religious practices and beliefs at Carthage from its foundation until the end of Roman rule. Essays analyse the metropolis’s Phoenician, Punic, and Graeco-Roman cults (all exhibiting a remarkable degree of assimilation and amalgamation), mystery cults, Judaism, and Manichaeism. A majority of essays comprehensively examine Christianity’s development (including persecution, martyrdom, Montanism, and Donatism) within Carthage’s multi-cultural environment. Utilizing methodologies from popular culture studies, biblical exegesis, cultural studies, and archaeology, contributors cover such innovative topics as: polytheistic religiosity; Jewish identity and devotional life based on a recently discovered ancient synagogue near Carthage; and challenges experienced by St. Augustine as a guest-preacher to rambunctious congregations at Carthage.
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Price: $199.00
Pages: 736
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements
Publication Date: 04 December 2025
ISBN: 9789004738584
Format: Hardcover
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Jane E. Merdinger (PhD, Yale University) has been a professor at several American universities. Her book Rome and the African Church in the Time of Augustine and numerous articles analyse North African church councils, canons, and Augustine’s early sacramental theology.
Jesse A. Hoover (PhD, Baylor University) is a Lecturer in History at St. David’s School, North Carolina. His books are The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age (Oxford, 2018) and The Donatist Compendium and Related Texts (Brepols, 2025).
Nancy Weatherwax (PhD, Vanderbilt University) teaches at Lansing Community College in Michigan. Her dissertation explored the Donatist controversy. She continues her research on Donatism and has done extensive editorial work for several academic presses in the United States.