The struggle over class : socioeconomic analysis of ancient Christian texts
The struggle over class
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
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| Omfang | xiv, 457 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduciton: The struggle over class in the study of early Christianity / G. Anthony Kaddie -- Part 1. Epistles and Assemblies -- The matter of class: assemblages, networks, and the shape of the Pauline collectives / Cavan W. Concannon -- "Wife, pray to the Lar": wives, slaves, and worship in Roman households / Caroline Johnson Hodge -- Complicating class in the Letter to Philemon: a prolegomenon / Alan H. Cadwallader -- Class-ifying the Gods: The Christ commodity in Philippians 3 / Jennifer Quigley -- Response to Part 1: Theoretical perspectives on the stratification of wealth, power, and status in the ancient Mediterranean world / Philip F. Esler -- Part 2. Synoptic Traditions -- Class conflict and Galilee at the time of Jesus / James Crossley -- Reading Mark through the lens of class / Alicia J. Batten -- Exhuming class: Syrian mortuary practices and class differences in the Gospel of Matthew / G. Anthony Kaddie -- Response to Part 2: Lessons I learned skipping class / Zeba Crook -- Part 3. Gospel of John and Acts of the Apostles -- Class of history and history of class in John and Acts / Christina Petterson -- Part 4. Apocalyptic Literature -- Class consciousness, group affiliation, and apocalyptic speculation / Lorenzo DiTommaso -- Class, classification, and political conflict in the study of Apocalypticism: the case of 1 Corinthians 1-2 / Emma Wasserman -- Class analysis in the Book of Revelation: intersections of economy, religion, and gender / Steven J. Friesen -- Response to Part 4: Clas, intersectionality and Apocalyptic rhetoric / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Part 5. Patristic Literature -- Unequally yoked: Tertullian on marriage and class / Michael Flexsenhar III -- How level is the playing field? Virtue and socioeconomic standing in the works of Gregory of Nyssa / Jaclyn Maxwell -- Response to Part 5: Reflections of class in late Antiquity / Daniëlle Slootjes.. - The Struggle over Class brings together scholars from the fields of New Testament and early Christianity to examine Christian texts in light of the category of class. Historically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, this collection presents a range of approaches to, and applications of, class in the study of the epistles, the gospels, Acts, apocalyptic texts, and patristic literature. Contributors Alicia J. Batten, Alan H. Cadwallader, Cavan W. Concannon, Zeba Crook, James Crossley, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Philip F. Esler, Michael Flexsenhar III, Steven J. Friesen, Caroline Johnson Hodge, G. Anthony Keddie, Jaclyn Maxwell, Christina Petterson, Jennifer Quigley, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Daniëlle Slootjes, and Emma Wasserman challenge both scholars and students to articulate their own positions in the ongoing scholarly struggle over class as an analytical category
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| ISBN | 9780884145455. - 9781628374155
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