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Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era (Hardcover)
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Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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Through the close study of texts, Roman Imperial Identities in the
Early Christian Era examines the overlapping emphases and themes of
two cosmopolitan and multiethnic cultural identities emerging in
the early centuries CE - a trans-empire alliance of the Elite and
the "Christians." Exploring the cultural representations of these
social identities, Judith Perkins shows that they converge around
an array of shared themes: violence, the body, prisons, courts, and
time. Locating Christian representations within their historical
context and in dialogue with other contemporary representations, it
asks why do Christian representations share certain emphases? To
what do they respond, and to whom might they appeal? For example,
does the increasing Christian emphasis on a fully material human
resurrection in the early centuries, respond to the evolution of a
harsher and more status based judicial system? Judith Perkins
argues that Christians were so successful in suppressing their
social identity as inhabitants of the Roman Empire, that historical
documents and testimony have been sequestered as "Christian" rather
than recognized as evidence for the social dynamics enacted during
the period, Her discussion offers a stimulating survey of interest
to students of ancient narrative, cultural studies and gender.
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