Placeholder text

Go to cart

Being Christian in Late Antiquity

By Carol Harrison

Being Christian in Late Antiquity

By Carol Harrison

0 - Default Title
Description
What do we mean when we talk about "being Christian" in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honor of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian Clark. After an introduction to the volume's dedicatee and themes by Averil Cameron, the papers in Section I, "Being Christian through Reading, Writing, and Hearing," analyze the roles that literary genre, writing, reading, hearing, and the literature of the past played in the formation of what it meant to be Christian. The essays in Section II move on to explore how late antique Christians sought to create, maintain, and represent Christian communities: communities that were both "textually created" and "enacted in living realities." Finally in Section III, "The Particularities of Being Christian," the contributions examine what it was to be Christian from a number of different ways of representing oneself, each of which raises questions about certain kinds of "particularities," for example, gender, location, education, and culture.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
316
Release Date:
2014-03-28
Publication Date:
2014-01-30
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199656037
ISBN13:
9780199656035
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
640 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out