Judaean and Christ-Follower Identities: Grounds for a Distinction
In NTS 62.3 (July 2016) David Horrell argued that certain passages in 1 Corinthians 7 and 1 Peter 3 showed ethnicising' traits among the early Christians. He set this result against an alleged trend in scholarship that would distinguish and disparage a closed ethnic Judaism in relation to a ne...
| Published in: | New Testament studies |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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New Testament studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Roman Empire
/ Jews
/ Christian
/ Ethnicity
/ Group identity
/ Inclusion (Sociology)
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society HD Early Judaism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Clement of Alexandria
B Porphyry B Minucius Felix B voluntary association B Ethnos B Tertullian B Pliny the Younger B Paul B Ancient Judaism B Celsus B Ethnic Group B ethnicise B Christian Origins B Julian |
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| Summary: | In NTS 62.3 (July 2016) David Horrell argued that certain passages in 1 Corinthians 7 and 1 Peter 3 showed ethnicising' traits among the early Christians. He set this result against an alleged trend in scholarship that would distinguish and disparage a closed ethnic Judaism in relation to a new spiritual-universal Christianity. The present authors' work was proffered as representative of this trend, even though no evidence was cited for such a connection and their work moves in a very different direction. Leaving aside Horrell's interpretation of the New Testament passages for reasons of space, this article takes up the larger question of Judaean and Christ-movement identities by reconsidering the position of Ioudaioi and Christ-followers in the early Roman Empire. Using different but convergent (social-scientific and historical-philological) methods, we find that ethnos-language was everywhere applied to the Judaeans, that this reflected normalcy and exchange with the world, and that Judaeans thus met the criteria of an ethnic group. Early Christians had no such recognised place. Their voluntary associations largely rejected ethnos- and polis-commitment or identity. Neither Judaean openness to the world nor Christian alienation supports the position that Horrell attributes to us. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Ethnicisation, Marriage and Early Christian Identity (2016)"
Kritik in "Judaean Ethnicity and Christ-Following Voluntarism? A Reply to Steve Mason and Philip Esler (2018)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688517000145 |