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This study examines the provincial councils of the Roman Empire (1st-3rd c. AD), which were called "koina" in the Greek East and "concilia" in the Latin West. Based on new discoveries and new issues in the field of ancient history, this analysis offers a new appraisal of the provincial councils, including the history of their origin, their political function for Rome and for inhabitants of the provinces, and their social and economic significance

Was ist die Rolle der Skepsis in der religiösen Umwelt des Mittelmeerraums? Wie wird Zweifel innerhalb einer religiösen Gemeinschaft ausgedrückt? Worin unterscheidet sich der »Zweifel des Zugehörigen« von der skeptischen Einstellung des Außenstehenden? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen diese Fragen mit Bezug auf breitgefächerte religiöse Sinnzusammenhänge der Antike.InhaltsübersichtClifford Ando: Disbelief and Cognate Concepts in Roman Antiquity – Jan Assmann: Ancient Egyptian Disbelief in the Promises of Eternity – Tim Whitmarsh: The Invention of Atheism and the Invention of Religion in Classical Athens – Jan N. Bremmer: Youth, Atheism, and (Un)Belief in Late Fifth-Century Athens – Matthew A. Fox: Disbelief in Rome: A Reappraisal – Babett Edelmann-Singer: »Who Will Worship This Man as a God, Who Will Believe in Him?« – Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and the Hermeneutical Categories of Belief and Scepticism in Emperor Cult – Kai Trampedach: Plutarch als Apologet des Orakels von Delphi – Janet Downie: Belief and Doubt in Aelius Aristides's Isthmian Oration: To Poseidon – Inger N.I. Kuin: Loukianos Atheos? Humour and Religious Doubt in Lucian of Samosata – Tobias Nicklas: Skepsis und Christusglaube: Funktionen, Räume und Impulse des Zweifels bei Paulus – David P. Moessner: Luke as Sceptical »Insider« – Re-configuring the »Tradition« by Re-figuring the »Synoptic« Plot – Benjamin Schliesser: The Gospel for Sceptics: Doubting Thomas (John 20:24–29) and Early Christian Identity Formation – Anna Van den Kerchove: »Why Do You Doubt?« – Scepticism and Some Nag Hammadi Writings – Richard L. Gordon: Evading Doubt: Astrology and Magic in the Greco-Roman Period