Download or read book Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima written by Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 16 contributions representing work drawn from a multi-year seminar conducted through the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. North American and European contributors, primarily associated with religiously affiliated universities, address literary, inscriptional, and archaeological evidence on Pagans, Samaritans, Jews, and Christians, including how each group interacted with the religious 'other', as well as studies exploring the Caesarea centurion Cornelius and Roman army religion, pagan-Jewish revelries in Caesarea and Alexandria, and other topics.