Aliens and Sojourners : Self as Other in Early Christianity.
Title:
Aliens and Sojourners : Self as Other in Early Christianity.
Author:
Dunning, Benjamin H.
ISBN:
9780812201819
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Series:
Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Aliens, Christians, and the Rhetoric of Identity -- 1. Citizens and Aliens -- 2. Going to Jesus "Outside the Camp": Alien Identity in Hebrews -- 3. Outsiders by Virtue of Outdoing: The Epistle to Diognetus -- 4. Foreign Countries and Alien Assets in the Shepherd of Hermas -- 5. Strangers and Soteriology in the Apocryphon of James -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Why did early Christians claim their "otherness" as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners so vocally? Aliens and Sojourners explores the markedly different ways that Christians used the rhetoric of their own marginality in order to variously situate Christian identity in relation to the ancient Roman world.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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