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...
| Publié dans: | Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics |
|---|---|
| Auteur principal: | |
| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Publié: |
Piscataway, NJ
Gorgias Press
2020
|
| Dans: |
Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics (76)
|
| Collection/Revue: | Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics
76 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Hellénisme
/ Judaïsme
/ Christianisme
/ Identité culturelle
|
| RelBib Classification: | BE Religion gréco-romaine BH Judaïsme KAB Christianisme primitif TC Époque pré-chrétienne TD Antiquité tardive |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Judaism
Relations
Christianity
History
B Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D B Christianity and other religions Christianity History |
| Accès en ligne: |
Table des matières Quatrième de couverture |
| Résumé: | "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"-- |
|---|---|
| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1463241232 |