Gaming Greekness : : Cultural Agonism among Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire / / Allan Georgia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Georgia, Allan,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics ; 76
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.