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Combining classical, epigraphical, and biblical sources with
social-scientific methodology, this monograph questions the way in
which modern scholarship has tended to discuss ancient conversion.
The author challenges long-held assumptions of psychological
continuity between ancient and modern people, and offers in place
of these assumptions a model founded on the categories the ancients
used themselves. Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean religions and
philosophies, including Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity,
framed their religion in the language of patronage / benefaction
and loyalty, and thus an understanding of ancient conversion must
start there.
Stephen G. Wilson was Professor of Religion at Carleton University,
Ottawa, and Director of the College of Humanities until his
retirement in 2007. His contributions to the study of the religious
identities of Jews, Christians, and Gentiles in the first three
centuries of the Common Era are widely acknowledged; his interests
have been no less in the contrasting and sometimes conflicting
religious identities within each of these three groups. Among his
best-known publications are The Gentiles and the Gentile Mission in
Luke DEGREESActs (1973), Luke and the Law (1983), Related
Strangers: Jews and Christians 70 DEGREES170 CE (1995), and Leaving
the Fold: Defectors and Apostates in Antiquity (2004). The present
collection of essays develops further Wilson's researches on the
general theme of identity and interaction. The sixteen contributors
to this Festschrift include Kim Stratton on curse rhetoric, Adele
Reinhartz on Caiaphas, Willi Braun on meals and social formation,
Philip Harland on meals and social labelling, Richard Ascough on
missionizing associations, John Barclay on Judaean identity in
Josephus, John Kloppenborg on the recipients of the Letter of
James, Laurence Broadhurst on ancient music, Larry Hurtado on
manuscripts and identity, Edith Humphey on naming in the
Apocalypse, Michele Murray on the Apostolic Constitutions, Roger
Beck on the Late Antique Ohoroscope of Islam, Graydon Snyder on the
Ethiopian Jews, Alan Segal on Daniel Boyarin, Robert Morgan on
theology vs religious studies, and William Arnal on scholarly
identities in the study of Christia
Jerome H. Neyrey, Professor of New Testament at the University of
Notre Dame since 1992, is widely recognized for his groundbreaking
contributions to social-scientific criticism of the Gospels and the
Epistles. In this Festschrift the contributors notably advance the
cause of social-scientific New Testament study. David Aune writes
on Christian beginnings and cognitive dissonance theory, Zeba Crook
on constructing a model of ancient prayer, Craig deVos on good news
to the poor in Luke, John H. Elliott on envy and the evil eye,
Philip Esler on the development of a non-ethnic group identity in
John, Bruce Malina and John Pilch on the wrath of God, Halvor
Moxnes on masculinity and place in Luke, Douglas Oakman on coinage
in the Judean temple system, Carolyn Osiek on motivation for the
conversion of women in early Christianity, Eric Stewart on the city
in Mark, and Gerd Theissen on early Christian communities and
ancient organizations.
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