Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity : A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29z4c9n6" target="_blank" >https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29z4c9n6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21237/C7clio14038636" target="_blank" >10.21237/C7clio14038636</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity : A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities

Original language description

The authors reconsider the dynamics of Jewish and non-Jewish networks in the spread of early Christianity. For mathematical modeling of complex processes like these, they apply Lukan and Marcionite Christianities as strictly coded test cases. Despite weak historical evidence, it is obvious that these two movements, which are newly assumed to be contemporaneous, maintained different attitudes to the Jewish background of Christianity and so they probably used Jewish and non-Jewish networks in a different way. While Lukan Christianity, which remained open to the Jewish tradition, may still have utilized Jewish Mediterranean networks, Marcionite Christianity, which rejected the Jewish heritage, probably ignored them. On this reduced historical basis, the authors constructed a mathematical model of temporal spreading on the network which was common for both of the hypothesized types of Christianity. The nodes of this network, representing big cities of the ancient Mediterranean, contain only two different kinds of diffusivity – Jewish and non-Jewish. At the level of the common network which remains stable, the model examines the importance of global centers for the spreading dynamics of early Christianity. On the other hand, the employment of the Jewish sub-network is manipulated over time according to the regular alteration of early Christian generations. This way, the necessity of the Jewish sub-network for the spread of early Christianity is tested.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-07487S" target="_blank" >GA18-07487S: Religions on the Ancient Mediterranean Networks: The Role of Primary and Secondary Centers in the Spread of Religious Innovations</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution

ISSN

2373-7530

e-ISSN

2373-7530

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

53-74

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181969455