Gaming Greekness : cultural agonism among Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire

1. Verfasser: Georgia, Allan T. , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2020.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 358 pages ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics 76
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Imperium Romanum
Parallelausgabe: Georgia, Allan T.,, Gaming Greekness (Online version:) | ISSN: 9781463241247
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Gaming the system : cultural competition and the stakes of "greekness" in the early Roman Empire
  • "In and out of the game" : Favorinus, Lucian and the strategic possibilities of competing for greekness
  • Paul's understudy : recasting Paul as a 2nd century cultural competitor
  • Piety and Paideia : Jews dying like Greeks in front of Romans in 4 Maccabees
  • 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
  • The monster at the end of [t}his book : hybridity as theological strategy and cultural critique in Tatian's Against the Greeks.