Greco-Roman associations, deities, and early Christianity /
"Understanding associations in the Greco-Roman world enhances the study of the rise of early Christianity--whether at the micro-level of interpreting particular texts or at the macro-level of assessing the spread of Christ-devotion in the pre-Constantinian era. The twenty-four contributions con...
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Waco, Texas :
Baylor University Press,
[2022]
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Inhoudsopgave:
- Greco-Roman associations and the origins of Christianity : taking stock of where we are / Bruce W. Longenecker
- Part One : Angles of Vision. House church or association? : some reflections on models and usefulness / Peter Oakes
- Suspicion, integration, and roman attitudes toward associations / Eric J. Brewer
- Working with the gods : occupational associations and early christ groups / Richard S. Ascough
- Stinking leatherworkers and noisy street criers : Paul, occupational stigma, and the sensory politics of associations / Louise J. Lawrence
- Dressing for deities : functions and meanings of dress within ancient associations / Alicia J. Batten
- The prestige of the gods, the urban elites, and the local associations : assessing honorific rituals among the early Christians / James R. Harrison
- The meals of Christ groups in comparative perspective / John S. Kloppenborg
- F(r)ee membership of Christ groups / Timothy J. Murray
- Women benefactors and early christ groups / Susan E. Benton
- Aid among greco-roman associations and Christ groups / Robert E. Moses
- Burial communities : associations and Christ groups / Markus Öhler
- Retiring religious associations / Éric Rebillard
- Sunagoge and semi-public associations : Greco-Roman, Judean, and Christos followers / Ralph J. Korner
- Christianization and the decline of elective cults revisited : competitors or cohabitants? / Christina Gousopoulos
- Part Two: Focal Points. From analogy to identity : did an association of leatherworkers "turn" into the Thessalonian church? / Timothy A. Brookins
- Configuring time in Roman Macedonia : identity and differentiation in Paul's thessalonian Christ group / Bruce W. Longenecker
- Conflict and honor in the ancient epistle : or, how an egyptian funerary association illuminates rivalry at Corinth / Sarah E. Rollens
- The significance of logeia for the meaning of Paul's collection in 1 and 2 Corinthians / Philip F. Esler
- The benefaction-reward convention in greco-roman private associations and paul's jerusalem collection / Jin Hwan Lee
- Reading hebrews in a Roman vicus with voluntary associations / Jason A. Whitlark
- Julian Christ worshippers and their connection to a collegium in first-century lyon : reintroducing the epitaph of Julia Adepta / Richard Last
- Many have sold themselves into slavery : voluntary imprisonment and slavery, survival strategies among associations, and the reception of 1 Corinthians in 1 Clement 55 / David J. Downs
- Mystery cults and Christian associations in early alexandrian theology : the case of clement of Alexandria / T. J. Lang.