LEADER 04827nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910779146303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-88996-X 010 $a0-8122-0181-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201819 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104556 035 $a(OCoLC)794702346 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576097 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631149 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11372265 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631149 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10608248 035 $a(PQKB)10155029 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18468 035 $a(DE-B1597)449035 035 $a(OCoLC)979954167 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201819 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441657 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576097 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420246 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441657 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104556 100 $a20080811d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAliens and sojourners$b[electronic resource] $eself as other in early Christianity /$fBenjamin H. Dunning 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 1 $aDivinations: rereading late ancient religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4156-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: Aliens, Christians, and the Rhetoric of Identity -- $tChapter One: Citizens and Aliens -- $tChapter Two :Going to Jesus "Outside the Camp": Alien Identity in Hebrews -- $tChapter Three: Outsiders by Virtue of Outdoing: The Epistle to Diognetus -- $tChapter Four: Foreign Countries and Alien Assets in the Shepherd of Hermas -- $tChapter Five: Strangers and Soteriology in the Apocryphon of James -- $tConclusion -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aEarly Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larger Roman world as the new movement grew and struggled to make sense of its own boundaries?Aliens and Sojourners argues that the claim to alien status is not a transparent one. Instead, Benjamin Dunning contends, it shaped a rich, pervasive, variegated discourse of identity in early Christianity. Resident aliens and foreigners had long occupied a conflicted space of both repulsion and desire in ancient thinking. Dunning demonstrates how Christians and others in antiquity capitalized on this tension, refiguring the resident alien as being of a compelling doubleness, simultaneously marginal and potent. Early Christians, he argues, used this refiguration to render Christian identity legible, distinct, and even desirable among the vast range of social and religious identities and practices that proliferated in the ancient Mediterranean.Through close readings of ancient Christian texts such as Hebrews, 1 Peter, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the Epistle to Diognetus, Dunning examines the markedly different ways that Christians used the language of their own marginality, articulating a range of options for what it means to be Christian in relation to the Roman social order. His conclusions have implications not only for the study of late antiquity but also for understanding the rhetorics of religious alienation more broadly, both in the ancient world and today. 410 0$aDivinations. 606 $aSelf$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aTheological anthropology$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aStrangers$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aAlienation (Theology) 606 $aIdentification (Religion) 606 $aOther (Philosophy) 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aSelf$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aTheological anthropology$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aStrangers$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aAlienation (Theology) 615 0$aIdentification (Religion) 615 0$aOther (Philosophy) 676 $a270.1 700 $aDunning$b Benjamin H$01467606 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779146303321 996 $aAliens and sojourners$93757955 997 $aUNINA