Religion at Carthage 800 BCE-439 CE

Jane E. Merdinger (PhD, Yale University) has been a professor at several American universities. Her book Rome and the African Church in the Time of Augustine and numerous articles analyse North African church councils, canons, and Augustine’s early sacramental theology. Jesse A. Hoover (PhD, Baylor University) is a Lecturer in History at St. David’s School, North Carolina. His books are The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age (Oxford, 2018) and The Donatist Compendium and Related Texts (Brepols, 2025). Nancy Weatherwax (PhD, Vanderbilt University) teaches at Lansing Community College in Michigan. Her dissertation explored the Donatist controversy. She continues her research on Donatism and has done extensive editorial work for several academic presses in the United States.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Maps and FiguresSelect AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJane E. Merdinger, Jesse A. Hoover and Nancy Weatherwax24 Foundational Perspectives on Carthage’s Indigenous, Phoenician, and Punic HeritageJane E. Merdinger25 Keeping a Secret: the Mystery Cults of Isis and Sarapis in Carthage and Its TerritoryAlexander Evers26 “Don’t Tell …”—More Mystery Cults in Carthage and Its Territory: Magna Mater and MithrasAlexander Evers27 Reconsidering the Religious Legacy of Punic CarthageDavid L. Riggs28 Traditions of Divine Patronage in Roman CarthageDavid L. Riggs29 Jews at Carthage: Real and RhetoricalClaudia Setzer30 Jewish Devotional Life in Carthage in Light of New Archaeological FindsKaren B. Stern31 Early Christianity at Carthage ca. 180–230 CEWilliam Tabbernee32 Montanism in Roman North AfricaWilliam Tabbernee33 Baptism at Carthage in the Third Century: Beliefs and PracticesRobin M. Jensen34 Eucharistic Meals and Assemblies in Early Third-Century CarthageAndrew McGowan35 Persecution and Martyrdom at CarthageLucy Grig36 Christianity and Sacred Texts in Carthage ca. 180 to 258 CEJonathan Yates37 Christianity in the Mid-third Century at Carthage: Conflicts and SchismsGeoffrey D. Dunn38 Christianity and Sacred Texts in Carthage after 258 CEJonathan Yates39 Manichaeism in Carthage and BeyondJ. Kevin Coyle40 Donatism in Carthage until 411David E. Wilhite41 Assessing the Role of Cyprian at the Conference of Carthage (411)Matthew Gaumer42 Identity Formation in Donatist Pre-baptismal CatechesisAlden Bass43 Philosophical Circles at CarthageKenneth B. Steinhauser44 Augustine’s Sermons on Religious Life in Carthage: Pagans, Christians, and JewsHubertus R. Drobner45 Asceticism in Carthaginian Religious Life: Pagan, Jewish, and ChristianCarole Monica Burnett46 Christianity and the Roman State: the View from CarthageAngelo Di BerardinoConclusionJane E. Merdinger, Jesse A. Hoover and Nancy WeatherwaxIndex