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In the first centuries CE, there were a large population of monotheists that had adopted Jewish beliefs without formally converting to Judaism called 'God-fearers'. At the same time, Neoplatonic paganism was becoming monotheistic. Was there overlap between the God-fearers and the Neoplatonists?
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Whether the heart or the brain (or the liver?) was the seat of thought was debated historically, yes? Did people feel their thoughts as occupying some other location within their body prior to cephalocentrism becoming popularly accepted?
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A Roman is thrown forward in time - when does it become difficult for him/her to be understood? When did Latin fluency cease to become common among educated classes?
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From what I read in one of Juan Cole's books, semi-conversion to Judaism as God-fearers was apparently popular in the first few centuries AD. Who were the Jews that were proselytizing to these people? Were they Sadducees, Pharisees, Hellenistic Jews, etc?
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Does the Gutasaga have an example of preserved historical records of the Gothic migration in an oral tradition for a thousand years before it was written down or is it cultural backwash from interactions with the rest of Europe?
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In Eugen Weber's Peasants into Frenchmen, he describes peasant folk beliefs about the magical powers of Catholic priests. Did folkloric beliefs about the magical powers of priests exist in the countries that went Protestant? And what happened to those beliefs after Protestantism?
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Did the Jewish Christian sect descended from the James the brother of Jesus' leadership die out from reversions to mainstream Judaism or absorption by Nicene Christianity or some other option?
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