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• 2023

  Method and Madness in Dating the Passion of Perpetua

  Bremmer, J. N., Jan-2023, In: Annali di Storia dell'Esegesi. 40, 1, p. 87-100 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

• Slaves of God/Christ: narrated total devotion in the apocryphal Acts of Peter

  Bremmer, J. N., 2023, In: Religion. 53, 1, p. 87-115 29 p.

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  • Deity 100%
  • Apocryphal Act 100%
  • Devotion 100%
  • Total Devotion 100%
  • Religion 25%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  235 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  How do we explain the quiet demise of graeco-roman religion? An essay

  Bremmer, J. N., Mar-2021, In: Numen. 68, 2-3, p. 230-271 42 p.

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  • Christianity 100%
  • Tradition 100%
  • demise 100%
  • Roman religion 100%
  • Graeco-Roman Religion 100%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

  311 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

  Bremmer, J. N., Jul-2018, In: Classical philology. 113, 3, p. 373-379 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Academic

• God's Body: Jewish, Christian and pagan Ideas of God in Antiquity

  Bremmer, J. N., Apr-2018, In: Journal of Theological Studies. 69, p. 315-318 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Academic

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• 2017

  Huis en habitus: Over kastelen, buitenplaatsen en notabele levensvormen. Opstellen voor prof.dr. Yme Kuiper, aangeboden bij zijn afscheid als bijzonder hoogleraar Historische Buitenplaatsen en Landgoederen aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

  Translated title of the contribution: House and Habitus. : Studies on castles, country houses and aristocratic lifestyles in honour of prof. dr. Yme Kuiper, Published on the Occasion of his Retirement from the Chair Professor of Country Houses and Landed Estates at Groningen UniversityGietman, C. (Editor), Moes, J. (Editor), Rewijk, D. (Editor), Bremmer, J. (Editor) & Spek, T. (Editor), 2017, Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren. 487 p. (Adelsgeschiedenis; vol. 15)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Professional

• Pilgrimage progress?

  Bremmer, J. N., 3-Feb-2017, Excavating Pilgrimage: Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel and Movement in the Ancient World. Kristensen, T. M. & Friese, W. (eds.). 1st ed. Taylor and Francis Ltd, p. 275-284 10 p.

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• TACITUS AND THE PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS: AN INVENTION OF TRADITION?

  Van der Lans, B. & Bremmer, J. N., 2017, In: Eirene-Studia graeca et latina. 53, 1-2, p. 299-321 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Persecution 100%
  • Tacitus 100%
  • Invention of tradition 100%
  • Invention of Tradition 100%
  • Nero 66%
  23 Citations (Scopus)

• Yme Kuiper: Een leven tussen sport, adel en buitenplaatsen

  Bremmer, J. & Bijleveld, N. H., 2017, Huis en Habitus: Over kastelen, buitenplaatsen en notabele levensvormen. Gietman, C., Moes, J., Rewijk, D., Ronnes, H., Bremmer, J. N. & Spek, T. (eds.). Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, p. 20-32 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional
• 2015

  Theseus' arid Peirithoos' descent into the underworld

  Bremmer, J. N., 2015, In: Etudes Classiques. 83, 1-4, p. 35-49 15 p.

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  • Underworld 100%
  • Theseus 100%
  • Tradition 50%
  • Hero 50%
  • Depiction 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2013

  Opening Address at the Symposium: Epigraphical Evidence for the Formation and Rise of Early Saivism

  Bremmer, J. N., 2013, In: Indo-Iranian Journal. 56, 3-4, p. 205-210 6 p.

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  • sectarian 100%
  • Inscription 100%
  • Ancient India 100%
  • Ancient Greece 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  21 Downloads (Pure)
• 2010

  Apion and Anoubion in the Homilies

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, The Pseudo-Clementines (Studies on early Christian Apocrypha,10). Bremmer, J. N. (ed.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 73 - 92

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• From Holy Books to Holy Bible: an Itinerary from Ancient Greece to Modern Islam via Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism. Popović, M. (ed.). Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, p. 327-360 34 p. (Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism; no. 141).

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  30 Citations (Scopus)

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• Hephaistos Sweats or How to Construct an Ambivalent God

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, The Gods of Ancient Greece (Edinburgh Leventis studies, 5). Bremmer, J. N. & Erskine, A. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 193 - 208

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

  18 Citations (Scopus)

• Human Sacrifice in Ancient Societies

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, In: Royal Opera House, London, programme for the new production of Verdi’s Aida. p. 29 - 33

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Popular

• Jews and Spartans: Abrahamic cousins?

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites. Goodman, M. & van Kooten, G. (eds.). 13 ed. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, p. 47-59 13 p. (Themes in Biblical narrative; no. 13).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• Manteis, Magic, Mysteries and Mythography: Messy Margins of Polis Religion?

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, In: Kernos : revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grècque antique. 23, p. 13-35 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic

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• Notiunculae Martyrologicae VI: Passio Perpetuae 2, 16 and 17

  Bremmer, J. N. & den Boeft, J., 2010, Persecution and Martyrdom in Late Antique Christianity. Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Dehandschutter. Leemans, J. (ed.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 47 - 63

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• Orphic, Roman, Jewish and Christian Tours of Hell: Observations on the Apocalypse of Peter

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, Other Worlds and their Relation to this World. Eynikel, E., García Martínez, F., Nicklas, T. & Verheyden, J. (eds.). Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, p. 305 - 321 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism; no. 143).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Pseudo-Clementines: Texts, Dates, Places, Authors and Magic

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, The Pseudo-Clementines. Bremmer, J. N. (ed.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 1 - 23 (Studies on early Christian Apocrypha; no. 10).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• The Gods of Ancient Greece

  Bremmer, J. N. & Erskine, A., 2010, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 528 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Academic

• The Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, The Gods of Ancient Greece. Bremmer, J. N. & Erskine, A. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 1 - 18 (Edinburgh Leventis studies; no. 5).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• The Pseudo-Clementines

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, Leuven: Peeters. 342 p. (Studies on early Christian Apocrypha; vol. 10)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Academic

• The rise of Christianity through the eyes of Gibbon, Harnack and Rodney Stark: a valedictory lecture on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of Religious Studies, in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, delivered in abbreviated form before the University of Groningen

  Bremmer, J. N., 29-Jan-2010, Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing. 86 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Inaugural speech

• The Rise of the Unitary Soul and its Opposition to the Body: from Homer to Socrates

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, Philosophische Anthropologie in der Antike. Jansen, L. & Jedan, C. (eds.). Frankfurt: Ontos, p. 11-29 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• Walter Burkert on Ancient Myth and Ritual: Sme Personal Observations

  Bremmer, J. N., 2010, Gewalt und Opfer. Im Dialog mit Walter Burkert. Bierl, A. & Braungart, W. (eds.). Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, p. 71 - 86 (MythosEikonPoiesis; no. 2).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic
• 2009

  Afterlife: IV: Greco-Roman Antiquity

  Bremmer, J. N., 2009, Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Klauck, H.-J. & et. al. (eds.). Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, p. 541 - 545

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• Christian Hell: From the Apocalypse of Peter to the Apocalypse of Paul

  Bremmer, J. N., 2009, In: Numen. 56, 2-3, p. 298-325 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
  22 Citations (Scopus)

• Die Karriere der Seele: Vom antiken Griechenland ins moderne Europa

  Bremmer, J. N., 2009, Europäische Religionsgeschichte. Kippenberg, H. G., Rüpke, J. & von Stuckrad, K. (eds.). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, p. 497-524 28 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• Eric Cossee: predikant te Rotterdam, professor in Groningen

  Bremmer, J. N., 2009, Herinnering en identiteit in het Vrijzinnig Protestantisme. de Baar, M. P. A. & van Dijk, M. (eds.). Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, p. 173 - 187

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Professional

• Ian Buruma: an intellectual cosmopolitan

  Bremmer, J. N., 2009, Praemium Erasmianum Yearbook 2008. p. 21 - 27

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Professional

• Myth, Mythology and Mythography

  Bremmer, J. N., 2009, Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Boys-Stones, G. & et. al. (eds.). Oxford: OUP, p. 678 - 686

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• Philogelos

  Bremmer, J. N., 2009, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, third edition. Tübingen: J.B. Metzler Verlag, p. XII. 775

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• The Golden Bough: Orphic, Eleusinian and Hellenistic-Jewish Sources of Virgil’s Underworld

  Bremmer, J. N., 2009, In: Kernos, Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion. 22, p. 183-208 26 p.

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• Zeus’ Own Country: Cult and Myth in The Pride of Halicarnassus

  Bremmer, J. N., 2009, Antike Mythen. Medien, Transformationen und Konstruktionen. Dill, U. & Walde, C. (eds.). Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, p. 292 - 312

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic
• 2008

  Balaam, Mopsus and Melampous: Tales of Travelling Seers

  Bremmer, J. N., 2008, PRESTIGE OF THE PAGAN PROPHET BALAAM IN JUDAISM, EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM. van Kooten, G. H. & van Ruiten, J. T. A. G. M. (eds.). Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, p. 49-67 19 p. (Themes in Biblical Narrative-Jewish and Christian Traditions; vol. 11).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Heliodorus in the Temple and Paul on the Road to Damascus

  Bremmer, J. N., 2008, The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 73. Houtman, A. de Jong,, A. & Misset-van de Weg, M. (eds.). p. 367 - 348

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Cult Personnel of the Ephesian Artemision: Anatolian, Persian, Greek and Roman Aspects

  Bremmer, J. N., 2008, Practitioners of the Divine in Ancient Greece. Dignas, B. & Trampedantz, K. (eds.). Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, p. 37 - 53

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• Greek Religion, the Bible and the Ancient Near East

  Bremmer, J. N., 2008, 8 ed. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill. 424 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Academic

• Iconoclast, Iconoclastic, and Iconoclasm: Notes Towards a Genealogy

  Bremmer, J. N., 2008, In: Church history and religious culture. 88, p. 1-17 17 p.

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  27 Citations (Scopus)

  734 Downloads (Pure)

• Priestly Personnel of the Ephesian Artemision: Anatolian, Persian, Greek and Roman Aspects

  Bremmer, J. N., 2008, EPRINTS-BOOK-TITLE. p. 37-53 17 p.

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• Secularization: Notes Toward a Genealogy

  Bremmer, J. N., 2008, Religion: Beyond a Concept. de Vries, H. (ed.). New York: Fordham University Press, p. 432-437 / 900-903

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

  20 Citations (Scopus)
• 2007

  From Salvation to Empowerment

  Bremmer, J. N., 2007, In: First Draft. 6, p. 10 - 15

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

• From Salvation to Empowerment. European Notes on Contemporary American Religion

  Bremmer, J. N., 2007, In: First Draft 6. p. 10-15 6 p.

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• Greek Normative Animal Sacrifice

  Bremmer, J. N., 2007, A Companion to Greek Religion. Ogden, D. (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, p. 132-144 13 p.

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  60 Citations (Scopus)

  2740 Downloads (Pure)

• Hell

  Bremmer, J. N., 2007, Zur Hölle! Eine Reise in die antike Unterwelt. Schade, K. & Altekamp, S. (eds.). Berlin: Winckelmann-Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, p. 11 - 13

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

• Human sacrifice: A brief introduction

  Bremmer, J. N., 2007, STRANGE WORLD OF HUMAN SACRIFICE. Bremmer, J. (ed.). LEUVEN: Peeters, p. 1-8 8 p. (Studies in the History and Anthropology of Religion; vol. 1).

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• Human Sacrifice: A Brief Introduction

  Bremmer, J. N., 2007, In: Ibidem, 108. 10 p.

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• Human sacrifice: A Brief Introduction

  Bremmer, J. N., 2007, The Strange World of Human Sacrifice. Bremmer, J. N. (ed.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 1-8 8 p.

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• III. Myth and ritual in Greek human sacrifice: Lykaon, Polyxena and the case of the Rhodian criminal

  Bremmer, J. N., 2007, STRANGE WORLD OF HUMAN SACRIFICE. Bremmer, J. (ed.). LEUVEN: Peeters, p. 55-79 25 p. (Studies in the History and Anthropology of Religion; vol. 1).

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