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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796870503321

Titolo

Authority and identity in emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece / / edited by Cilliers Breytenbach, Julien M. Ogereau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

90-04-36719-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 pages)

Collana

Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity ; ; Volume 103

Disciplina

275.61/01

Soggetti

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Turkey Church history

Greece Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Early Christianity in Asia Minor -- Pagane Relikte in der Spätantike: Griechische Katasterinschriften als religionsgeschichtliche Quellen / Ulrich Huttner -- The Acts of John and Christian Communities in Ephesus in the Mid-Second Century AD / Paul Trebilco -- Graeco-Roman Associations, Judean Synagogues and Early Christianity in Bithynia-Pontus / Markus Öhler -- Frühes Christentum in Galatien: Inschriften aus dem südlichen Haymana-Hochland / Jennifer Krumm -- Präsentation und Selbstrepräsentation von Christinnen auf lykaonischen Grabinschriften / Christiane Zimmermann -- Relational Identity and Roman Name-Giving among Lycaonian Christians / Cilliers Breytenbach -- Die Löwen der Berge: Lebendige, steinerne und literarische Löwen im Rauhen Kilikien / Philipp Pilhofer -- Early Christianity in Greece, the Southern Balkans, and Beyond -- Early Christian Inscriptions from the Corinthia and the Peloponnese / Erkki Sironen -- Authority and Identity in the Early Christian Inscriptions from Macedonia / Julien M. Ogereau -- The Authority of Paul’s Memory and Early Christian Identity at Philippi / Cédric Brélaz -- Stobi in Late Antiquity: Epigraphic Testimonia / Slavica Babamova -- The Formation of a Pauline Letter Collection in Light of Roman Epigraphic Evidence / Laura S. Nasrallah -- The Use of Greek in



the Early Christian Inscriptions from Rome and Italy (3rd–4th Cent.) / Antonio E. Felle -- From Aphrodite(s) to Saintly Bishops in Late Antique Cyprus / Georgios Deligiannakis.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores how early Christian communities constructed, developed, and asserted their identity and authority in various socio-cultural contexts in Asia Minor and Greece in the first five centuries CE. With the help of the database Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae ( ICG ), special attention is given to ancient inscriptions which represent a rich and valuable source of information on the early Christians’ social and religious identity, family networks, authority structures, and place and function in society. This collection of essays by various specialists of Early Christianity, Epigraphy, and Late Antiquity, offers a broad geographical survey of the expansion and socio-cultural development of Christianity/ies in Asia Minor and Greece, and sheds new light on the religious transformation of the Later Roman Empire.