LEADER 03700nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910463753603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89865-9 010 $a0-8122-0651-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206517 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046115 035 $a(OCoLC)833582415 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642197 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000582508 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11357646 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000582508 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10547420 035 $a(PQKB)10557434 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441862 035 $a(OCoLC)809317674 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17529 035 $a(DE-B1597)449528 035 $a(OCoLC)979756468 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206517 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441862 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642197 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421115 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046115 100 $a20111020d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChrist circumcised$b[electronic resource] $ea study in early Christian history and difference /$fAndrew S. Jacobs 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) 225 1 $aDivinations : rereading late ancient religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4397-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-308) and index. 327 $tIntroduction: Splitting the Difference --$tCircumcision and the Cultural Economy of Difference --$t(De-) Judaizing Christ's Circumcision The Dialogue of Difference --$tHeresy, Theology, and the Divine Circumcision --$tDubious Difference Epiphanius on the Jewish Christians --$tScriptural Distinctions Reading Between the Lines --$t"Let Us Be Circumcised!" Ritual Differences. 330 $aIn the first full-length study of the circumcision of Jesus, Andrew S. Jacobs turns to an unexpected symbol-the stereotypical mark of the Jewish covenant on the body of the Christian savior-to explore how and why we think about difference and identity in early Christianity.Jacobs explores the subject of Christ's circumcision in texts dating from the first through seventh centuries of the Common Era. Using a diverse toolkit of approaches, including the psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and poststructuralist, he posits that while seeming to desire fixed borders and a clear distinction between self (Christian) and other (Jew, pagan, and heretic), early Christians consistently blurred and destabilized their own religious boundaries. He further argues that in this doubled approach to others, Christians mimicked the imperial discourse of the Roman Empire, which exerted its power through the management, not the erasure, of difference.For Jacobs, the circumcision of Christ vividly illustrates a deep-seated Christian duality: the fear of and longing for an other, at once reviled and internalized. From his earliest appearance in the Gospel of Luke to the full-blown Feast of the Divine Circumcision in the medieval period, Christ circumcised represents a new way of imagining Christians and their creation of a new religious culture. 410 0$aDivinations. 606 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChurch history 676 $a232.92 700 $aJacobs$b Andrew S.$f1973-$01028271 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463753603321 996 $aChrist circumcised$92444220 997 $aUNINA