A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Ethnicity 383 after reading the sacred writings, they misconstrued them” (C. Cels. 7.30; see also 6.7, 43; 7.28). Homer’s accoun ...

384 Aaron P. Johnson the laws of the nations and excused—indeed encouraged—the Christian rejection of them. Whereas Celsus denou ...

Ethnicity 385 unlikely representative of such a view. For, just as Moses had established the Jewish nation amid the performance ...

386 Aaron P. Johnson rebellion against the Jews, Origen begins with an argument for the racial distinctiveness and purity of the ...

Ethnicity 387 NOTES (^1) A portion of this discussion was delivered in preliminary form at an Early Christian Studies workshop a ...

388 Aaron P. Johnson Kimber Buell, Denise. 2005.Why This New Race? Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity.New York: Columbia Uni ...

Ethnicity 389 Johnson Hodge, Caroline. 2007.If Sons, then Heirs: A Study of Kinship and Ethnicity in the Letters of Paul. Oxford ...

CHAPTER 26 Greek Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic Adam M. Kemezis Introduction Specialists and the general public alike usuall ...

Greek Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic 391 the self-proclaimed Greeks of the Roman Empire often simultaneously identified with ...

392 Adam M. Kemezis Our main concern will be with an area that lies between these two extremes of breadth, namely the urbanized, ...

Greek Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic 393 and learning them required leisure and money.Paideiawas not precisely identical wit ...

394 Adam M. Kemezis though in both cases the people from whom the “Hellenes” are distinguished are also Greek speakers. Converse ...

Greek Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic 395 The discourses of authenticity thus produced have important implications for the in ...

396 Adam M. Kemezis outsider who claims (however dubiously) to exemplify the insiders’ ideals better than they do themselves. He ...

Greek Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic 397 and held meetings of delegates along with religious and athletic festivals that wer ...

398 Adam M. Kemezis corresponding displays of collectivepaideia, in the form of a suitably Greek public cul- ture. The Panhellen ...

Greek Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic 399 or “Hellene,” even if speaking to a non-Greek. Much more common answers would inclu ...

400 Adam M. Kemezis late first centuryCE, reconciled to Roman political hegemony, which guaranteed their own oligarchic dominanc ...

Greek Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic 401 in Gaul. He comes across, both in his own writings and those of others, as an irres ...

402 Adam M. Kemezis Bowersock, Glen Warren. 1969.Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ferrary, J ...