Competing identities : the athlete and the gladiator in early Christianity / Robert Paul Seesengood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seesengood, Robert Paul.

Series:

Library of New Testament studies ; 346.

Playing the texts ; 12.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of New Testament studies ; 346

Playing the texts ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffering--Biblical teaching.

Suffering.

Pain--Biblical teaching.

Pain.

Martyrdom--Christianity.

Martyrdom.

Sports--Biblical teaching.

Sports.

Biblical teaching.

Physical Description:

xi, 139 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : T & T Clark, 2006.

Contents:

Three epiphanies: on autobiography and athleticism in the literature of the early Roman Empire

Hybridity and the rhetoric of endurance: Paul's athletic metaphors

Running with endurance: an autobiographical reading of Hebrews 12:1-13

Contending for the faith in Paul's absence: combat sports, gladiators, and Pauline identity in the disputed Pauline epistles

Jesus' Nikes: competition (and conquest) in the Apocalypse of John

Apelythēsan: Perpetua, Blandina, and the literary description of martyrdom as athletic triumph in early christian proto-hagiography

On autobiography and athleticisim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-131) and indexes.

ISBN:

0567026639

9780567026637

OCLC:

70335047