Others and the construction of early Christian identities

edited by Raimo Hakola, Nina Nikki, & Ulla Tervahauta

ISBN 10: 9519217614 / ISBN 13: 9789519217611

Published by Helsinki : Finnish Exegetical Society, 2013

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344 pages ; 21 cm. Contents: Pharisees as others in the New Testament -- The flexible apostle: Paul's varied social identifications in 1 Corinthians 9 and Philippians 3 -- Questions of identity, otherness and "Jewishness" in Ephesians' scholarship -- Creating the murderers of God: the case of the Gospel of Peter -- How to expose a deviant? Resurrection belief and boundary creation in early Christianity -- Ignorant people, the fool and pagans: intra-Christian polemic portrayal of the other in Authentikos logos -- Christian identity and intra-Christian polemics in the Pseudo-Clementines --In the category of philosophy? Christians in early pagan accounts -- Danger and delusion: ancient literary images of religious prejudices -- Nocturnal rituals as an othering device: the long life of fears and labels in ancient polemic and legislation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Others and the construction of early Christian identities
• Publisher: Helsinki : Finnish Exegetical Society
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9519217614
• ISBN 13: 9789519217611
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Christianity

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Synopsis

Others and the Construction of Early Christian Identities is a collection of essays that examine how those perceived as others were differentiated, excluded and devalued in various early Christian sources, both inside and outside the New Testament canon. Early Christian polemic is set in its larger historical and cultural contexts in essays that deal with ancient literary images of religious prejudice, ancient polemical labeling, and portraits of Christians as others in non-Christian sources. Many essays adopt an inter-disciplinary approach and apply social psychological or sociological concepts to analyze how images of otherness constructed and solidified early Christian identities. In this way it is possible to explain the othering processes in foundational Christian documents which have had a lasting influence on Christian attitudes to outsiders and which still shape contemporary Christian identities.