Ethnicity in the Ancient World – Did it matter? / / Erich S. Gruen.
This study approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than through the imposition of modern categories. It takes into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources. A central issue guides the c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020] ©2020 |
| 出版年: | 2020 |
| 語言: | English |
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| 實物描述: | 1 online resource (XI, 265 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Were Barbarians Barbaric? -- 2 Herodotus and Greekness -- 3 The Racial Judgments of Polybius -- 4 Rome’s Multiple Identities and Tangled Perspectives -- 5 Constructed Ethnicities in Republican Italy -- 6 The Chosen People and Mixed Marriages -- 7 Did Hellenistic Jews Consider Themselves a Race or a Religion? -- 8 Philo and Jewish Ethnicity -- 9 The Ethnic Vocabulary of Josephus -- 10 The Racial Reflections of Paul -- 11 Christians as a “Third Race”? -- 12 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary source index -- General Index |
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| 總結: | This study approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than through the imposition of modern categories. It takes into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources. A central issue guides the course of the work: did ancient writers reflect upon collective identity as determined by common origins or by shared traditions and culture? This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul. It approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than through the imposition of modern categories, labels, and frameworks. A central issue guides the course of the work: did ancient writers reflect upon collective identity as determined by common origins and lineage or by shared traditions and culture? |
| 格式: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783110685657 9783110696288 9783110696271 9783110659061 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704778 9783110704570 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110685657 |
| 訪問: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Erich S. Gruen. |