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Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity Collected Essays I

:	Jan N. Bremmer
:	Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity Collected Essays I
:	Mohr Siebeck
:	9783161554384
:	Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
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In this work, Jan N. Bremmer aims to bring together the worlds of early Christianity and those of ancient history and classical literature - worlds that still all too rarely interlock. Contextualising the life and literature of the early Christians in their Greco-Roman environment, he focusses on four areas. A first section looks at more general aspects of early Christianity: the name of the Christians, their religious and social capital, prophecy and the place of widows and upper-class women in the Christian movement. Second, the chronology and place of composition of the early apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and Pseudo-Clementines are newly determined by paying close attention to their doctrinal contents, but also, innovatively, to their onomastics and social vocabulary. The author also analyses the frequent use of magic in the Acts and explains the prominence of women by comparing the Acts to the Greek novel. Third, an investigation into the theme of the tours of hell suggests a new chronological order, shows that the Christian tours were indebted to both Greek and Jewish models, and illustrates that in the course of time the genre dropped a large part of its Jewish heritage. The fourth and final section concentrates on the most famous and intriguing report of an ancient martyrdom: the Passion of Perpetua. It pays special attention to the motivation and visions of Perpetua, which are analyzed not by taking recourse to modern theories such as psychoanalysis, but by looking to the world in which Perpetua lived, both Christian and pagan. It is only by seeing the early Christians in their ancient world that we might begin to understand them and their emerging communities.

Born 1944; 1979 PhD; 1978-90 Associate Professor for ancient history at the University of Utrecht; 1990-2009 Chair of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen; 2019-20 Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies »Beyond Canon,« Regensburg.

	Cover	1
	Preface	8
	Contents	16
	Abbreviations	18
	Section I: Aspects of Early Christianity	20
	Chapter 1: Why Did Jesus’ Followers Call Themselves ‘Christians’?	22
	1. The Importance of Christ	22
	2. Christian and pagan adhesion to one god	24
	3. Jesus’ followers as ‘Christians’	26
	Chapter 2: The Social and Religious Capital of the Early Christians	32
	1. Charity	35
	2. Interconnectedness	37
	3. Family aspects	39
	4. Bonding and bridging	44
	5. Religious capital	47
	Conclusion	50
	Chapter 3: Why Did Early Christianity Attract Upper-class Women?	52
	Chapter 4: Pauper or Patroness: the Widow in theEarly Christian Church	62
	1. Jesus and the first Palestine congregations	63
	2. The Greek world	66
	3. The Roman world	70
	4. Syria and Egypt	73
	5. The Christian Empire	75
	6. Conclusions	82
	Chapter 5: Peregrinus’ Christian Career	84
	Chapter 6: The Domestication of Early Christian Prophecy	100
	1. The situation in Paul’s time	100
	2. The situation around AD 100	102
	3. Montanism or the revival of prophecy	106
	4. Preliminary conclusions	110
	5. The Ascension of Isaiah and ecstatic prophecy	111
	Section II: Studies in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostlesand the Pseudo-Clementines	116
	Chapter 7: Women in the Acts of John	118
	1. Lycomedes and Cleopatra (19–29)	119
	2. Andronicus and Drusiana (63–86)	121
	3. Old women and widows (30–7)	123
	4. Conclusion	128
	Appendix: date and place of composition of the Acts of John	130
	Chapter 8: Man, Magic, and Martyrdom in the Acts of Andrew	134
	1. Males and females	139
	2. Magic and exorcism	141
	3. Martyrdom	148
	Chapter 9: Aspects of the Acts of Peter: Women, Magic, Place and Date	152
	1. Women	152
	2. Demons and magic	159
	3. Place of origin and date of the APt	162
	Chapter 10: Magic, Martyrdom and Women’s Liberation in the Acts of Paul and Thecla	168
	1. Paul and Thecla in Iconium	169
	3. Paul and Thecla in Antioch	177
	4. Composition, name, date, place of origin, author, and aims of the AP	182
	Chapter 11: The Acts of Thomas: Place, Date and Women	186
	1. Women	190
	2. Women and the AAA	196
	Chapter 12: Conversion in the Oldest Apocryphal Acts	200
	1. The Acts of John	201
	2. The Acts of Peter	206
	3. The Acts of Paul	209
	4. Conclusions and general observations	212
	Chapter 13: Magic in the Apocryphal Acts	216
	1. Realities and representations of magic	217
	2. Exorcism	221
	3. The confrontation between the apostle Peter and Simon Magus	227
	4. Conclusions	235
	Chapter 14: The Apocryphal Acts: Authors, Place, Time and Readership	238
	1. Authorship, text and message	238
	2. The chronology and place of origin of the AAA	240
	3. Readership	244
	Chapter 15: Pseudo-Clementines: Texts, Dates, Places, Authors and Magic	254
	1. Text	254
	2. Place and Date of the Grundschrift, Homilies and Recognitions	258
	3. The Author of the Grundschrift	260
	4. Magic	262
	Chapter 16: Apion and Anoubion in the Homilies	270
	1. Athenodorus	270
	2. Annoubion	271
	3. Appion	275
	4. Conclusion	283
	Section III: Apocalypses and Tours of Hell	286
	Chapter 17: The Apocalypse of Peter: Greek or Jewish?	288
	Chapter 18: The