Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine: The Nations, the Parting of the Ways, and Roman Imperial Ideology
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Three Orations and a Question -- Eusebius's On the Holy Sepulchre -- Aelius Aristides's Regarding Rome -- Paul's Speech in Acts 25:23-26:32 -- The Construction of Gentile Christian Identity -- 2. Positionin...
| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Three Orations and a Question -- Eusebius's On the Holy Sepulchre -- Aelius Aristides's Regarding Rome -- Paul's Speech in Acts 25:23-26:32 -- The Construction of Gentile Christian Identity -- 2. Positioning the Question -- The Parting of the Ways -- Ethnicity and Social Identity -- Identity, Ethnicity, and Power in the Roman Empire -- 3. Ethnē as an Identity Ascribed to Non-Jews: By Jews -- Jewish Identity Construction in the Greco-Roman World -- Ethnē and Ascribed Identity -- 4. Ethnē as an Identity Ascribed to Non-Jews: By Jewish Christ-Believers -- Earliest Jewish Christ-Communities and the Gentiles -- Ascribed Identities -- 5. The Nations in Roman Imperial Discourse -- Vocabulary and Usage: General Considerations -- Roman Imperial Ideology and the Nations -- 6. Ethnē and Gentile Christian Identity (Before 135 CE) -- Setting Up the Questions -- Ethnē and Identity: Up to 70 CE -- Ethnē and Identity: Between the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Bar Kokhba Revolt -- 7. Ethnē and Gentile Christian Identity (After 135 CE) -- Ethnē as an Identity Term in the Writings of Justin Martyr -- Constraints: Celsus and Marcion -- Ethnē and Christian Identity Construction after Justin -- Afterword -- Bibliography. |
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| ISBN: | 1467459550 |