Imagery in Jewish and Christian Ritual Settings

2021 ◽  
pp. 533-562
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Grey ◽  
Mark D. Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Christian Art ◽  
Social Landscape

During the Roman period, Jewish and Christian communities throughout the Mediterranean had a complex relationship with the visual culture of the larger Greco-Roman world. Both groups, in their attempts to be set apart as distinct ethnic or religious entities while at the same time remaining integrated within their surrounding social landscape, expressed themselves in different times and places along a spectrum of selective adoption, adaptation, and rejection of the artistic forms used by their neighbors. For instance, owing to a shared hostility toward pagan idolatry, both communities in the early part of this period largely avoided figural iconography (they instead drew in limited ways upon the non-figural artistic repertoire of local Hellenistic and Roman society), but by later centuries distinctly Jewish and Christian art began to emerge and incorporate a fuller range of Greco-Roman motifs for use in a variety of communal settings.

The New Self and Reading Practices in Late Antique Christianity

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Guy G. Stroumsa
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman

The article deals with the complex relationship between the religious revolution of late antiquity and cultural changes in the Roman world. It focuses on new attitudes to books, and analyses them in parallel with new conceptions of the self emerging in early Christianity. In particular, it seeks to understand the paradox of the early monks having been at once fierce opponents and carriers of Greco-Roman paideia.

Constructions of Christian Identity in the Northern Periphery: the Sawley World Map in Twelfth-Century England

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
MIHAI DRAGNEA
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman

An exploration of the complex relationship between Christian constructions of identity and the idea of sacrality derived from the ancient Greco-Roman world, this article argues that Christian identity developed uniquely in a specific context, often intertwined with theology and mythology. The complex relationship between the two was crucial in the construction of Christian identity in the lands recently converted, and influenced the authors of world maps from the eleventh century onward. This study investigates how the pagan past and Christian present were incorporated in some world maps, such as the twelfth-century English Sawley map. Thus it offers readers a coherent analysis of early history-writing in northern Europe in the first centuries after conversion.

Commerce in the Dark Ages: A Critique of the Evidence

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 123-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Grierson
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
Land Mass ◽  
The Mediterranean

When Pirenne contributed an article entitled ‘Mahomet et Charlemagne’ to the first issue of the Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire in 1922, he can have little realized how the ideas he there put forward were to be developed. His paper was designed as a protest against the traditional and deep-rooted conviction of western scholars that Latin Christendom was the direct and almost the sole heir of classical antiquity. Its argument was the now familiar one that Greco-Roman society survived with little change the shock of the Germanic invasions, and that it was only the appearance of Islam upon the scene that pushed the centre of Latin Christendom away from the Mediterranean and made possible the emergence of a new cultural unit based upon the land mass of western Europe. Medieval Christendom was not a continuation of the Roman world but something new, and Muhammed was a necessary precursor of Charlemagne

scholarly journals fulling

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miko Flohr
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Occupational Identity ◽  
Textile Production ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman

The practice of fulling woollen garments was never part of an integrated textile production chain in the Greco-Roman world, though in several contexts, there were developments towards large-scale investment and rationalization in fulling workshops. Fullers, particularly in the Roman period, developed a strong, and positive, occupational identity, and were well-integrated members of their respective urban communities.

Paul’s Defense: Masculinity and Authority in 2 Corinthians 10–13

2021 ◽  
pp. 0142064X2110248
Author(s):  
Kyung Min Kim
Keyword(s):  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
2 Corinthians ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Paternal Control ◽  
And Control

In 2 Cor. 10–13, Paul tries to prove his authority as a reliable leader by using two different masculinity standards. Paul manifests his power and control over the Corinthian church members by using an image of paterfamilias (11.2-3; 12.14). Paternal control of others was an essential element of hegemonic masculinity in the Greco-Roman world. Moreover, Paul proves his manliness by revealing his endurance and submission to divine authority (11.21b–12.10) according to the Hellenistic Jewish masculinity. I argue that Paul is embedded in these different cultural assumptions regarding masculinity and that he refers to these assumptions to persuade Gentile and Jewish groups in the Corinthian church.

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