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Understanding associations in the Greco-Roman world enhances the study of the rise of early Christianity—whether at the micro-level of interpreting particular texts or at the macro-level of assessing the spread of Christ-devotion in the pre-Constantinian era. The twenty-five contributions contained within Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity enlarge our perspectives on the extent to which Greco-Roman associations bring features of Christian origins into relief.
Thematic studies include associational social reputation; women in associations; deities and devotion; financial strategies of group maintenance; care for the poor; varieties of group identity; refinements of terminological and conceptual apparatus; funerary practices; occupational groups; and the alleged role of Christianity in the demise of associations. Studies of particular phenomena include 1 Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians, Paul's Collection, Hebrews, a late first-century Christian family, 1 Clement, and Clement of Alexandria.
While the essays cover a wide spectrum of topics, they retain a clear focus on aspects of corporate life within ancient associations as comparanda for the study of early Christ-groups within their social milieu. These essays, all kept to a disciplined length, represent the work of impressive scholars from a range of interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and international contexts. The volume's symposium of voices and lively scholarly exchange productively expand current conversations about Greco-Roman associations, deities, and early Christianity.
Contents
1 Greco-Roman Associations and the Origins of Christianity: Taking Stock of Where We Are, by Bruce W. Longenecker
Part One: Angles of Vision
2 House Church or Association? Soem Reflections on Models and Usefulness, by Peter Oakes
3 Suspicion, Integration, and Roman Attitudes toward Associations, by Eric J. Brewer
4 Working with the Gods: Occupational Associations and Early Christ Groups, by Richard S. Ascough
5 Stinking Leatherworkers and Noisy Street Criers: Paul, Occupational Stigma, and the Sensory Politics of Associations, by Louise J. Lawrence
6 Dressing for Deities: Functions and Meanings of Dress within Ancient Associations, by Alicia J. Batten
7 The Prestige of the Gods, the Urban Elites, and the Local Associations: Assessing Honorific Rituals among the Early Christians, by James R. Harrison
8 The Meals of Christ Groups in Comparative Perspective, by John S. Kloppenborg
9 F(r)ee Membership of Christ Groups, by Timothy J. Murray
10 Women Benefactors and Early Christ Groups, by Susan E. Benton
11 Aid among Greco-Roman Associations and Christ Groups, by Robert E. Moses
12 Burial Communities: Associations and Christ Groups, by Markus Öhler
13 Retiring Religious Associations, by Éric Rebillard
14 συναγωγή and Semi-public Associations: Greco-Roman, Judean, and Christos Followers, by Ralph J. Korner
15 Christianization and the Decline of Elective Cults Revisited: Competitors or Cohabitants? by Christina Gousopoulos
Part Two: Focal Points
16 From Analogy to Identity: Did an Association of Leatherworkers "Turn" into the Thessalonian Church? by Timothy A. Brookins
17 Configuring Time in Roman Macedonia: Identity and Differentiation in Paul's Thessalonian Christ Group, by Bruce W. Longenecker
18 Conflict and Honor in the Ancient Epistle: Or, How an Egyptian Funerary Association Illuminates Rivalry at Corinth, by Sarah E. Rollens
19 The Significance of Λογεία for the Meaning of Paul's Collection in 1 and 2 Corinthians, by Philip F. Esler
20 The Benefaction-Reward Convention in Greco-Roman Private Associations and Paul's Jerusalem Collection, by Jin Hwan Lee
21 Reading Hebrews in a Roman Vicus with Voluntary Associations, by Jason A. Whitlark
22 Julian Christ Worshippers and Their Connection to a Collegium in First-Century Lyon: Reintroducing the Epitaph of Julia Adepta, by Richard Last
23 "Many Have Sold Themselves into Slavery": Voluntary Imprisonment and Slavery, Survival Strategies among Associations, and the Reception of 1 Corinthians in 1 Clement 55, by David J. Downs
24 Mystery Cults and Christian Associations in Early Alexandrian Theology: The Case of Clement of Alexandria, by T. J. Lang
