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Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean

Rethinking Material Conditions in the Landscape of Jews and Christians

By: Philip A. Harland,Richard Last

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Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean

Rethinking Material Conditions in the Landscape of Jews and Christians

By: Philip A. Harland,Richard Last

Philip A. Harland and Richard Last consider the economics of early Christian group life within its social, cultural and economic contexts, by drawing on extensive epigraphic and archaeological evidence. In exploring the informal associations, immigrant groups, and guilds that dotted the world of the early Christians, Harland and Last provide fresh perspective on the question of how Christian assemblies and Judean/Jewish gatherings gained necessary resources to pursue their social, religious, and additional aims. By considering both neglected archaeological discoveries and literary evidence, the authors analyse financial and material aspects of group life, both sources of income and various areas of expenditure. Harland and Last then turn to the use of material resources for mutual support of members in various groups, including the importance of burial and the practice of interest-free loans. Christian and Judean evidence is explored throughout this book, culminating in a discussion of texts detailing the internal financial life of Christian assemblies as seen in first and second century sources, including Paul, the Didache, Justin Martyr, and Tertullian. In shedding new light on early Christian financial organisation, this volume aids further understanding of how some Christian groups survived and developed in the Greco-Roman world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567657507

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North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor

By: Philip A. Harland

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North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor

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Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and a context in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This second volume collects a representative selection of inscriptions from associations based on the North Coast of the Black Sea and in Asia Minor, published with English translations, brief explanatory notes, commentaries and full indices. This volume is essential for several areas of study: ancient patterns of social organization; the organization of diasporic communities in the ancient Mediterranean; models for the structure of early Christian groups; and forms of sociability, status-displays, and the vocabularies of virtue.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110340844

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9783110340846

Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians

By: Philip A. Harland

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Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians

By: Philip A. Harland

This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected archaeological and epigraphic evidence concerning associations and immigrant groups and by incorporating insights from the social sciences. The study's unique contribution relates, in part, to its interdisciplinary character, standing at the intersection of Christian Origins, Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, and the Social Sciences. It also breaks new ground in its thoroughly comparative framework, giving the Greek and Roman evidence its due, not as mere background but as an integral factor in understanding dynamics of identity among early Christians. This makes the work particularly well suited as a text for courses that aim to understand early Christian groups and literature, including the New Testament, in relation to their Greek, Roman, and Judean contexts. Inscriptions pertaining to associations provide a new angle of vision on the ways in which members in Christian congregations and Jewish synagogues experienced belonging and expressed their identities within the Greco-Roman world. The many other groups of immigrants throughout the cities of the empire provide a particularly appropriate framework for understanding both synagogues of Judeans and groups of Jesus-followers as minority cultural groups in these same contexts. Moreover, there were both shared means of expressing identity (including fictive familial metaphors) and peculiarities in the case of both Jews and Christians as minority cultural groups, who (like other "foreigners") were sometimes characterized as dangerous, alien "anti-associations". By paying close attention to dynamics of identity and belonging within associations and cultural minority groups, we can gain new insights into Pauline, Johannine, and other early Christian communities.

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A&C Black

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0567111466

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9780567111463

Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean

Rethinking Material Conditions in the Landscape of Jews and Christians

By: Philip A. Harland,Richard Last

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567657493

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Travel and Religion in Antiquity

By: Philip A. Harland

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Travel and Religion in Antiquity

By: Philip A. Harland

Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation. With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554582407

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Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians

By: Philip A. Harland

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North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor

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Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean

Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean

North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor

North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor

Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians

Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians

Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean

Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean

Travel and Religion in Antiquity

Travel and Religion in Antiquity

Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians

Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians

North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor

North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor

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