ISBN:
9781463241247
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 358 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics 76
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.6/701
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
RELIGION / History / bisacsh
;
Christianity and other religions Christianity
;
History
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
History
;
Judentum
;
Christentum
;
Interreligiöser Dialog
;
Kultur
;
Römisches Reich
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Römisches Reich
;
Judentum
;
Christentum
;
Interreligiöser Dialog
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.31826/9781463241247
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