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Religion at Carthage 800 BCE-439 CE
From Baal-Hammon to Christ
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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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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.
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.
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December 1, 2025
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9789004738591
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Front matter:
28
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736
eBook ISBN:
9789004738591
Keywords for this book
Apuleius; Augustine of Hippo; Aurelius of Carthage; Baptism; Colloquy of Carthage; Cyprian of Carthage; Donatus; Eucharistic Meals; Juno Caelestis; Magna Mater; Manichaeism; Martyrdom; Mithras; Parmenian; Perpetua; Persecution; Scilitan Martyrs; Tanit (Tinnit)
Audience(s) for this book
This work is of great use for professors and post-graduate students interested in the following subject areas: Phoenician and Punic cults, mystery cults, Early Church History, Ancient Jewish Studies, Reception of Christian Scripture in North Africa, Manichaeism, Donatism, Montanism
