Gaming Greekness: cultural agonism among Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire

"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 Sophi...

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Published in:Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics
Main Author: Georgia, Allan T. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press 2020
In: Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics (76)
Series/Journal:Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics 76
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hellenism / Judaism / Christianity / Cultural identity
RelBib Classification:BE Greco-Roman religions
BH Judaism
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East
TD Late Antiquity
Further subjects:B Judaism Relations Christianity History
B Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D
B Christianity and other religions Christianity History
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Summary:"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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1463241232