Early Christianity in Civic Space
Edited by J.S. Kloppenborg
Most of the evidence for the Jesus movement in the first century comes from the cities, municipia, and coloniae of the Empire. Cities were much more than incidental locations of Christ groups: the organization of urban space, as well as the distinctive demographic, economic, and political profiles of cities, had a profound effect on the ways in which local Christ groups imagined and described themselves. Christians made ample use of family and household metaphors in their gatherings and writings, which cohered well with the Greek notion of the polis as the assemblage and telos of households. Early Christian discourse also appropriated the language of friendship, adoption, manumission, divinization, and citizenship, all of which had particular salience in the environment of the polis. The imperial road system, networks of cities, and, on a more local level, the arrangement of public spaces, workplaces, neighbourhoods, and domestic settings shaped and supported the ways and means by which the missionary efforts of the early Christ movement spread throughout the Empire. These are the major topics addressed in the more than thirty essays that make up this volume of the proceedings of the CBL 2023 conference.
- Edited by J.S. Kloppenborg
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Cinquième Colloque International du RRENAB, Universités de Genève etLausanne, 10-12 juin 2010
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Where is the Truth?
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Theology and Christology in the Fourth Gospel
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Translating a Translation
The LXX and its Modern Translations in the Context of Early Judaism
Volume 213
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Recueil des travaux de Pierre-Maurice Bogaert réunis par J.-C.Haelewyck et B. Kindt
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The Genesis of Concepts and the Confrontation of Rationalities
Theology, Philosophy, Science. Conference ProceedingsLouvain-la-Neuve, 7th-9th October 2015
Volume 292
A Pillar of Cloud to Guide
Text-critical, Redactional, and Linguistic Perspectives on the OldTestament in Honour of Marc Vervenne
Volume 269
Ancient and Modern Scriptural Historiography – L’historiographiebiblique, ancienne et moderne
Volume 207
Le temps qui compte
Construction et qualification du temps de l'histoire dans lerécit des livres de Samuel (1 S 1 - 1 R 2)
Volume 318
