Gaming Greekness: cultural agonism among Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire
"How the Jewish and Christian communities that emerged in the early Roman Empire navigated a 'Hellenistic' world is a longstanding and unsettled question. Recent scholarship on the intellectual cultures that developed among Greek speaking subjects of Rome in the so-called Second Sophi...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Piscataway, NJ
Gorgias Press
2020
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Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics (76)
Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics
76 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hellenism
/ Judaism
/ Christianity
/ Cultural identity
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| IxTheo Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions BH Judaism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East TD Late Antiquity |
| Further subjects: | B
Judaism
Relations
Christianity
History
B Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D B Christianity and other religions Christianity History |
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| Summary: | "How the Jewish and Christian communities that emerged in the early Roman Empire navigated a 'Hellenistic' world is a longstanding and unsettled question. Recent scholarship on the intellectual cultures that developed among Greek speaking subjects of Rome in the so-called Second Sophistic as well as models for culture and competition informed by mathematical and economic game theories provide new ideas to address this question. This study offers a model for a kind of culture-making that accounts for how the cultural ecosystems of the Roman Empire enabled these religious communities to win legitimacy and build discourses of self-expression by competing on the same cultural fields as other Roman subjects. By considering a range of texts and figures-including Justin Martyr, Tatian, the 'second' Paul of the Acts of the Apostles, Lucian of Samosata, 4 Maccabees, and Favorinus of Arelate-this study contends that competing for legitimacy enabled those fledgling religious communities to express coherent cultural identities and secure social credibility within the complex milieu of Roman Imperial society"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 358 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 1463241232 |