| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 460 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Greco-Roman associations and the origins of Christianity : taking stock of where we are / Bruce W. Longenecker -- Part One : Angles of Vision. House church or association? : some reflections on models and usefulness / Peter Oakes -- Suspicion, integration, and roman attitudes toward associations / Eric J. Brewer -- Working with the gods : occupational associations and early christ groups / Richard S. Ascough -- Stinking leatherworkers and noisy street criers : Paul, occupational stigma, and the sensory politics of associations / Louise J. Lawrence -- Dressing for deities : functions and meanings of dress within ancient associations / Alicia J. Batten -- The prestige of the gods, the urban elites, and the local associations : assessing honorific rituals among the early Christians / James R. Harrison -- The meals of Christ groups in comparative perspective / John S. Kloppenborg -- F(r)ee membership of Christ groups / Timothy J. Murray -- Women benefactors and early christ groups / Susan E. Benton -- Aid among greco-roman associations and Christ groups / Robert E. Moses -- Burial communities : associations and Christ groups / Markus Öhler -- Retiring religious associations / Éric Rebillard -- Sunagoge and semi-public associations : Greco-Roman, Judean, and Christos followers / Ralph J. Korner -- Christianization and the decline of elective cults revisited : competitors or cohabitants? / Christina Gousopoulos -- Part Two: Focal Points. From analogy to identity : did an association of leatherworkers "turn" into the Thessalonian church? / Timothy A. Brookins -- Configuring time in Roman Macedonia : identity and differentiation in Paul's thessalonian Christ group / Bruce W. Longenecker -- Conflict and honor in the ancient epistle : or, how an egyptian funerary association illuminates rivalry at Corinth / Sarah E. Rollens -- The significance of logeia for the meaning of Paul's collection in 1 and 2 Corinthians / Philip F. Esler -- The benefaction-reward convention in greco-roman private associations and paul's jerusalem collection / Jin Hwan Lee -- Reading hebrews in a Roman vicus with voluntary associations / Jason A. Whitlark -- Julian Christ worshippers and their connection to a collegium in first-century lyon : reintroducing the epitaph of Julia Adepta / Richard Last -- Many have sold themselves into slavery : voluntary imprisonment and slavery, survival strategies among associations, and the reception of 1 Corinthians in 1 Clement 55 / David J. Downs -- Mystery cults and Christian associations in early alexandrian theology : the case of clement of Alexandria / T. J. Lang |
| Summary |
"Understanding associations in the Greco-Roman world enhances the study of the rise of early Christianity--whether at the micro-level of interpreting particular texts or at the macro-level of assessing the spread of Christ-devotion in the pre-Constantinian era. The twenty-four contributions contained within Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity enlarge our perspectives on the extent to which Greco-Roman associations bring features of Christian origins into relief. Thematic studies include associational social reputation; women in associations; deities and devotion; financial strategies of group maintenance; care for the poor; varieties of group identity; refinements of terminological and conceptual apparatus; funerary practices; occupational groups; and the alleged role of Christianity in the demise of associations. Studies of particular phenomena include 1 Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians, Paul's Collection, Hebrews, a late first-century Christian family, 1 Clement, and Clement of Alexandria. While the essays cover a wide spectrum of topics, they retain a clear focus on aspects of corporate life within ancient associations as comparanda for the study of early Christ-groups within their social milieu. These essays, all kept to a disciplined length, represent the work of impressive scholars from a range of interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and international contexts. The volume's symposium of voices and lively scholarly exchange productively expand current conversations about Greco-Roman associations, deities, and early Christianity."--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013751
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Bible. New Testament fast |
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Associations, institutions, etc. -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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Associations, institutions, etc. -- Rome -- History -- To 1500
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Christianity and other religions -- Greek.
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Christianity and other religions -- Roman.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Associations, institutions, etc.
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Romans -- Religion
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Interfaith relations
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Greeks -- Religion
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Church history -- Primitive and early church
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Christianity
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Rome (Empire)
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Longenecker, Bruce W., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781481315173 |
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148131517X |
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9781481315180 |
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1481315188 |
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