Aliens and Sojourners : : Self as Other in Early Christianity / / Benjamin H. Dunning.
Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larg...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Aliens, Christians, and the Rhetoric of Identity
- Chapter One: Citizens and Aliens
- Chapter Two :Going to Jesus "Outside the Camp": Alien Identity in Hebrews
- Chapter Three: Outsiders by Virtue of Outdoing: The Epistle to Diognetus
- Chapter Four: Foreign Countries and Alien Assets in the Shepherd of Hermas
- Chapter Five: Strangers and Soteriology in the Apocryphon of James
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments