The Politics of Patronage and the Politics of Kinship: The Meeting of the Ways

Scholarship on patronage in the ancient Mediterranean world abounds but is not unanimous in its understanding of how the patronage system worked, how it was present in the pre-Roman Greek world, and what were the differences, if any, in how it functioned in the Roman West and East. Moreover, little...

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Auteur principal: Osiek, Carolyn 1940- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Sage 2009
Dans: Biblical theology bulletin
Année: 2009, Volume: 39, Numéro: 3, Pages: 143-152
Sujets non-standardisés:B Phoebe
B Philemon
B Kinship
B euergetism
B Paul
B Patronage
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Édition parallèle:Électronique
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Résumé:Scholarship on patronage in the ancient Mediterranean world abounds but is not unanimous in its understanding of how the patronage system worked, how it was present in the pre-Roman Greek world, and what were the differences, if any, in how it functioned in the Roman West and East. Moreover, little is known about how the system worked among non-elites. In two of Paul's relationships, with Philemon and with Phoebe (Rom 16:1-2), we can see the informal patronage system at work among friends with common community ties.
ISSN:1945-7596
Contient:Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0146107909106758