Contested Ethnicities and Images: Studies in Acts and Arts
Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Luke-Acts (Chapters 1-11) -- Part Two: Roman Domestic Art and the New Testament (Chapters 12-18) -- Part Three: Two Book Reviews (Chapters 19-20) -- Part One: Luke-Acts -- Chapter 1: The Contested Movements in Rome,...
| Summary: | Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Luke-Acts (Chapters 1-11) -- Part Two: Roman Domestic Art and the New Testament (Chapters 12-18) -- Part Three: Two Book Reviews (Chapters 19-20) -- Part One: Luke-Acts -- Chapter 1: The Contested Movements in Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem toward Citizenships/Memberships of Multiple Ethnicities (Introducing Chapters 2-11) -- 1. Will Romans, Greeks, Jews, and/or Christians Accept or Reject Citizenships/Memberships of Multiple Ethnicities? -- 1.1 Narratives and Deliberative Speeches Constructed by Dionysius concerning a Citizenship of Multiple Ethnicities -- 1.2 A century after Dionysius, Luke-Acts also urges readers/churches to acculturate the Roman practice of a membership of plural ethnicities -- 1.3 Social/political conflict around ethnicity is so common that Lucian can satirize it -- further, whether an ethnic group accepts other ethnic groups is contested and forms the basis of praising or criticizing other groups -- 2. Emma Dench and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill's Recent Studies of Changing Greco-Roman Ethnic Attitudes and Practices -- 3. Roman imperial, aggressive plural ethnicity challenges not only the Greek Dionysius, but also challenges early Jews and early Christians -- 4. Both Dionysius and the author of Luke-Acts reevaluate their traditions: what is the place of Athens/Jerusalem, and which ancient writers are most authoritative in the present, while living under Rome? -- 5. Postcolonial Interpretation: Will Those Conquered by Rome Acculturate by Changing their Languages, Customs, Laws, and Gods/ Goddesses? -- 5.1 Study of colonized Greeks under Rome and Contemporary Postcolonial Studies -- 5.2 Political, internal conflict around adapting languages/customs/ god(esse)s/laws in the Greek authors Dionysius and Luke-Acts in the Context of the Early Roman Empire Chapter 2: Two Apologetic Encomia: Dionysius on Rome and Josephus on the Jews -- 1. Menander of Laodicea, How One Praises Cities (Spengel 346,26-365,9) -- 2. Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Apologetic Encomium of Rome (Roman Antiquities 1.9-2.29) -- 3. Josephus' Apologetic Encomium of the Jews (Against Apion 2.145-295) -- Chapter 3: The Areopagus Speech: An Appeal to the Stoic Historian Posidonius against Later Stoics and the Epicureans -- 1. Posidonius: Providence in Nature -- 1.1 Acts 17:26 -- 1.2 Acts 17:27a -- 2. Posidonius: Providence in History -- 3. Posidonius: Opposition to Images of the Deity -- 4. The Areopagus Speech against the Defence of Images by Dio Chrysostom, Oration 12 -- 4.1 Acts 17:19-20 -- 4.2 Acts 17:21 -- 4.3 Acts 17:22 -- 4.4 Acts 17:23 -- 4.5 Acts 17:24 -- 4.6 Acts 17:25 -- 4.7 Acts 17:26 -- 4.8 Acts 17:27-29 -- 4.9 Acts 17:30-31 -- Chapter 4: Rich and Poor, Proud and Humble in Luke-Acts -- Introduction -- 1. Lukan Language concerning Rich and Poor, Proud and Humble -- 2. Greek and Roman Language and Stories of Revolts of the Poor against the Rich, the Humble against the Proud -- 2.1 Isocrates, as Interpreted by Alexander Fuks -- 2.2 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dependent on Isocrates -- 3. Forgiving Debts -- 3.1 Sabbatical for Land and the Year of Jubilee (Leviticus 25) -- 3.2 Stoic Teachers in Sparta and the Gracchi Brothers in Rome -- 3.3 Date, Theory and Practice of Forgiving Debts -- 4. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Paul in Acts: "… You Teach All the Jews … to Forsake Moses, Telling Them Not to … Observe the Customs" (Acts 21:21) -- 1. Customs -- 2. Aliens -- 3. Philanthropic? -- 4. Roman policy -- 5. Forbidden? -- 6. "Receive" outsiders? -- 7. Theology -- Chapter 6: Political Friendship in the Historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities -- 1. War between Friends: Romans and Sabines (Ant. rom. 3) 2. Sedition among Friends: Patricians and Plebeians (Ant. rom. 6) -- 3. Coriolanus, Lover of His Country and Hater of Its Poor Plebeians? (Ant. rom. 7) -- 4. Coriolanus, a Just Enemy of Former Roman Friends? (Ant. rom. 8) -- 5. Conclusions -- Chapter 7: Attitudes toward Foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts -- 1. 2 Maccabees -- 2. Eupolemus -- 3. Greek Additions to Esther -- 4. Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates -- 5. Luke-Acts -- Chapter 8: ἀκριβῶς … γράψαι (Luke 1:3): To Write the Full History of God's Receiving All Nations -- 1. Modern and Ancient Debates concerning the Historicity and Function of Speeches in Hellenistic Historiography -- 2. The Reception of Gentiles/Foreigners in the Speeches of Luke-Acts -- 3. Hellenistic Jewish History, Written in Jerusalem, on Receiving Foreigners -- 4. Conclusions -- Appendix -- Chapter 9: The Cultural Origin of "Receiving All Nations" in Luke-Acts: Alexander the Great or Roman Social Policy? -- 1. Dionysius and Plutarch on Romulus Accepting Foreigners -- 2. Luke-Acts -- 3. Alexander the Great according to Arrian -- 4. Alexander the Great according to the Vulgate Tradition -- 5. Curtius and the Emperor Claudius -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 10: ΜΕΤΑΒΟΛΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΩΝ: Jesus as Founder of the Church in Luke-Acts: Form and Function -- 1. Rethinking the Significance of Genre -- 1.1 Genre and Meaning -- 1.2 Implications for Luke -- 2. Founders and Foundings: Comparing Greco-Roman Stories -- 2.1 Beginnings -- 2.2 Portents and Divine Births -- 2.3 Divine Titles -- 2.4 Miracles -- 2.5 Instructions -- 2.6 Stasis -- 2.7 Violent/Sudden Death -- 2.8 Epiphanies -- 2.9 Sending out/Founding a Colony -- 2.10 Divine Direction -- 2.11 Journeying -- 2.12 Reception of Founder or Colonists/Missionaries -- 2.13 Growth -- 2.14 Mixing -- 2.15 Changing Names -- 2.16 Language -- 2.17 Conclusion 3. Founders/Successors and the Changing of Customs -- 3.1 Plutarch and Changing the Constitution -- 3.2 Luke-Acts and Changing the Constitution -- 4. Jesus, a Founder without a City or Temple? -- 5. Conclusion: Founders, Change, and Continuity -- Chapter 11: Accepting Others: God's Boundary Crossing according to Isaiah and Luke-Acts -- 1. Jesus' and Peter's Sermons Interpreting the Bible (Luke 4 & Acts 10) -- 2. The Theme of "Acceptance" in Luke-Acts: Proclamation and Crossing Social/Ethnic Boundaries -- 3. Have Lukan House Churches Changed Moses' Customs? No, God Prophesied Acceptance, so This Change Is Not a Change! -- 4. Growth and Change? -- 5. Founders, Agents of Change, Die -- 6. After Change, after Death, Some Leave Town -- They Are "Sent Out" -- 7. God's Character in Luke-Acts -- 8. The Story of God's Action Ritualized in Meals -- 9. Will the ELCA Accept God's Acceptance of Allophyloi/LGBT Pastors? -- Part Two: Roman Art and the New Testament -- Chapter 12: Image and Text in Luke-Acts: Subverting Roman Imperial Images (Introducing Chapters 13-18) -- Chapter 13: Women Prophets/Maenads Visually Represented in Two Roman Colonies: Pompeii and Corinth -- 1. Roman Domestic Art in Pompeii and Corinth: Dionysus and Death -- 1.1 Two Roman Colonies, Pompeii and Corinth: Two Amphitheaters -- 1.1.1 The Date/Century of the Corinthian Amphitheater -- 1.1.2 Early Textual References to the Corinthian Amphitheater -- 1.2 Methodology: Roman Domestic Art and Texts, the Latter Only If They Support the Art -- 2. Dionysian Myth, Ritual, and Visual Representations in Corinth, Athens, and Sicyon -- 2.1 Visual Representations of the Deaths of Dionysus and Pentheus in Roman Colonies -- 2.1.1 The Roman Dionysus, God of Wine Harvest, No Longer of Tragedy? -- 2.1.2 "Resistance" to Worship of Dionysus in Roman Athens and Corinth 2.2 Dirce and the City of Sicyon, a Polis near Corinth -- 3. Comparison of Dionysian and Corinthian Christian Enthusiasm -- 4. Summary and Conclusions: Comparisons and Contrasts -- Captions for figures -- Chapter 14: Artists in Pre-Roman Corinth and Sicyon -- 1-3. Kleanthes, Butades, Kanachos -- 4. Polykleitos -- 5-7. Eupompos, Pamphilos, Lysippos -- 8-10. Lysistratos, Pausias, Glaucion -- 11-13. Athenion, Apelles, Euphranor -- Conclusion and Questions -- Chapter 15: Values of Roman Women Including Priests Visually Represented in Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Introduction: Prof. Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ -- 1. Casa dei Dioscuri (VI 9,6.7 -- fig. 1) in Pompeii: Heroic Masculine and "Universal" Feminine Paradigms -- 2. "The Mythological Paintings in the Macellum at Pompeii" -- 3. The Nigidii family and the Casa dei Dioscuri -- 4. The Vesting of a Priestess in Herculaneum -- 5. A Caution -- 6. An Imaginative Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Captions for figures -- Chapter 16: The Church Sitting in a Garden (1 Cor 14:30 -- Rom 16:23 -- Mark 6:39-40 -- 8:6 -- John 6:3, 10 -- Acts 1:15 -- 2:1-2) -- 1. Current State of Research and a Proposed Supplementary Methodology -- 1.1 Current State of Research -- 1.2 Supplementary Methodology -- 2. Sitting in Domestic Spaces -- 2.1 Sitting in Inns and Taverns in Pompeii -- 2.2 Sitting in Gardens in the Open -- 2.3 Peristyle Gardens -- 2.3.1 Sitting in Peristyle Gardens -- 2.3.2 The Growing Social and Political Importance of Peristyle Gardens -- 3. Visual Representations of Persons Sitting -- 3.1 Poets and Philosophers -- 3.2 Furniture for Sitting as Visually Represented in Pompeian Frescoes -- 4. Numbers of Non-Elite Diners Sitting in Gardens and Taverns -- 5. Summary and Conclusions -- 5.1 Summary -- 5.2 Conclusions -- Captions for figures Chapter 17: Cult Statues of Augustus' Temple of Apollo on the Palatine in Rome, Artemis'/Diana's Birthday in Ephesus, and Revelation 12:1-5a |
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| ISBN: | 3161537971 |