Early Christ groups and Greco-Roman associations : organizational models and social practices
Richard S. Ascough
Bok · Engelsk · 2022 · Sources.
| Omfang | xx, 398 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | 1. Introduction -- Section I: Modeling Christ Groups -- 2. Greco-Roman philosphic, religious, and voluntary associations -- 3. Paul, synagogues, and associations: Reframing the question of models for Pauline Christ Groups -- 4. Voluntary associations and the formation of Pauline Christian communities: Overcoming the objections -- 5. Translocal relationships among voluntary associations and Early Christianity -- 6. "Map-maker, map-maker, make me a map ...": Redescribing Greco-Roman "Elective Social Formations" -- 7. The Thessalonian Christian community as a professional voluntary association -- 8. Matthew and community formation -- Section II: Recruitment -- 9. Redescribing the Thessalonians "Mission" in light of Greco-Roman associations -- 10. Defing community-ethos in light of the 'Other': Recruitment rhetoric among Greco-Roman associations -- 11. "A place to stand, a place to grow": Architectural and epigraphic evidence for expansion in Greco-Roman associations -- Section III: Meals and Memorials -- 12. Forms of commensality in Greco-Roman associations -- 13. Social and political charateristics of Greco-Roman association meals -- 14. The Apostolic decree of Acts and Greco-Roman associations: Eating in the shadow of the Roman Empire -- 15. A question of death: Paul's community-building language in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 -- 16. Of memories and meals: Greco-Roman associations and the early Jesus-group at Thessalonikē -- 17. Benefaction gone wrong: The "sin" of Ananias and Sapphira in context.. - Over the past two and a half decades there has been an increasing interest in how the data from the associations--known primarily from inscriptions and papyri--can help scholars better understand the development of Christ groups in the first and second centuries. Richard Ascough's work has been at the forefront of promoting the associations and applying insights from inscriptions and papyri to understanding early Christian texts. This book collects together his most important contributions to the scholarly trajectory as it developed over a two-decade period. A fresh introduction orients the sixteen previously published articles and essays, which are arranged into three sections; the first dealing with associations as a model for Christ groups, the second focused on how associations and Christ groups interacted over recruitment, and the third on two key elements of group life: meals and memorializing the dead. --Back cover.
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| ISBN | 9781666709018. - 9781666709025. - 9781666709032
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