Hadrian and the Christians / edited by Marco Rizzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rizzi, Marco.

Contributor:

Rizzi, Marco, 1962-

Series:

Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 30.

Millennium-Studien : Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. ; Bd. 30 = Millennium studies : studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E. ; Bd. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138.

Hadrian.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--History.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History.

Judaism.

Rome--History--Hadrian, 117-138.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Marco Rizzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.

Summary:

The Second Century occupies a central place in the development of ancient Christianity. The aim of the book is to examine how in the cultural, social, and religious efflorescence of the Second Century, to be witnessed in phenomena such as the Second Sophistic, Christianity found a peculiar way of integrating into the more general transformation of the Empire and how this allowed the emerging religion to establish and flourish in Graeco-Roman society. Hadrian's reign was the starting point of that process and opened new possibilities of self-definition and external self-presentation to Christianity, as well as to other social and religious agencies. Differently from Judaism, however, Christianity fully seized the opportunity, thus gaining an increasing place in Graeco-Roman society, which ultimately led to the first Christian peace under the Severan emperors. The point at issue is examined from a multi-disciplinary perspective (including archaeology, cultural, religious, and political history) to challenge well-established, but no longer satisfactory, historical and hermeneutical paradigms. The contributors aim to examine institutional issues and sociocultural processes in their different aspects, as they were made possible on Hadrian's initiative and resulted in the merge of early Christianity into the Roman Empire.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Hadrian and the Christians

Villa Adriana scenario del potere

La paideia di Adriano: alcune osservazioni sulla valenza politica del culto eroico

Hadrian, Eleusis, and the beginning of Christian apologetics

The Bar Kokhba Revolt and Hadrian's Religious Policy

The pseudo-Hadrianic Epistle in the Historia Augusta and Hadrian's religious policy

Serapis, Boukoloi and Christians from Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius

Conclusion: Multiple identities in Second century Christianity

Backmatter

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

1-282-88486-7

9786612884863

3-11-022471-2

OCLC:

688585721