Gaming Greekness : : Cultural Agonism among Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire / / Allan Georgia.
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 a...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics ;
76 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. GAMING THE SYSTEM: CULTURAL COMPETITION AND THE STAKES OF "GREEKNESS" IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE -- CHAPTER TWO. "IN AND OUT OF THE GAME": FAVORINUS, LUCIAN AND THE STRATEGIC POSSIBILITIES OF COMPETING FOR GREEKNESS -- CHAPTER THREE. PAUL'S UNDERSTUDY: RECASTING PAUL AS A 2ND CENTURY CULTURAL COMPETITOR -- CHAPTER FOUR. PIETY AND PAIDEIA: JEWS DYING LIKE GREEKS IN FRONT OF ROMANS IN 4 MACCABEES -- CHAPTER FIVE. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS HAD GREEK ROAD SIGNS: POSTURE, DEPORTMENT AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARKETPLACE IN THE FRAME NARRATIVE OF JUSTIN MARTYR'S DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO -- CHAPTER SIX. THE MONSTER AT THE END OF [T]HIS BOOK: HYBRIDITY AS THEOLOGICAL STRATEGY AND CULTURAL CRITIQUE IN TATIAN'S AGAINST THE GREEKS -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDICES |
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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781463241247 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110689587 |
DOI: | 10.31826/9781463241247 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Allan Georgia. |