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Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians (Hardcover, New)
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Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians (Hardcover, New)
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This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in
the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected
archaeological and epigraphic evidence concerning associations and
immigrant groups and by incorporating insights from the social
sciences. The study's unique contribution relates, in part, to its
interdisciplinary character, standing at the intersection of
Christian Origins, Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, and the
Social Sciences. It also breaks new ground in its thoroughly
comparative framework, giving the Greek and Roman evidence its due,
not as mere background but as an integral factor in understanding
dynamics of identity among early Christians. This makes the work
particularly well suited as a text for courses that aim to
understand early Christian groups and literature, including the New
Testament, in relation to their Greek, Roman, and Judean contexts.
Inscriptions pertaining to associations provide a new angle of
vision on the ways in which members in Christian congregations and
Jewish synagogues experienced belonging and expressed their
identities within the Greco-Roman world. The many other groups of
immigrants throughout the cities of the empire provide a
particularly appropriate framework for understanding both
synagogues of Judeans and groups of Jesus-followers as minority
cultural groups in these same contexts. Moreover, there were both
shared means of expressing identity (including fictive familial
metaphors) and peculiarities in the case of both Jews and
Christians as minority cultural groups, who (like other
"foreigners") were sometimes characterized as dangerous, alien
"anti-associations." By paying close attention to dynamics of
identity and belonging within associations and cultural minority
groups, we can gain new insights into Pauline, Johannine, and other
early Christian communities.
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