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Aliens and sojourners: Self as other in the rhetoric of early Christian identity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Aliens and sojourners: Self as other in the rhetoric of early Christian identity./
Author:	Dunning, Benjamin Harrison.
Description:	252 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1806.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	Religion, Biblical Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3174094
ISBN:	0542120445

Aliens and sojourners: Self as other in the rhetoric of early Christian identity.
Dunning, Benjamin Harrison.

Aliens and sojourners: Self as other in the rhetoric of early Christian identity. - 252 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1806.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

This dissertation investigates the use of 'alien rhetoric' in early Christian texts---that is, the language of foreignness, sojourning, resident-alien status, and citizenship as a means for communicating varying forms of Christian alterity. In contrast to previous scholarship that has understood early Christians' self-designation as outsiders either in terms of their technical socio-legal status or as a metaphor in response to persecution, this study focuses on the rhetorical shaping of the topos in texts of the first and second centuries CE. To this end, it employs a methodological approach that interacts with theoretical issues in contemporary historiography (as raised by Michel Foucault, Hayden White and others), and draws on the practice theory of Pierre Bourdieu, the reflections of Jonathan Z. Smith on the politics of constructing difference, and the work of literary theorists such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco.

ISBN: 0542120445Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020189
Religion, Biblical Studies.

Aliens and sojourners: Self as other in the rhetoric of early Christian identity.
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520 $a Specifically under examination are the varied deployments of the resident-alien topos in 1 Peter, Hebrews, Shepherd of Hernias, Similitude 1, Epistle to Diognetus 5--6 and Apocryphon of James. The larger argument of the dissertation is that alien rhetoric in early Christianity was not a fixed and univocal response to some singular external situation (such as being marginalized by the surrounding Roman society), but rather a versatile rhetorical resource that could be used by early Christians for the purposes of identity formation in strikingly different ways---with respect to both internal self-definition and the situating of Christian identity within the vast range of social, philosophical and cultic identities and practices that proliferated in the Roman world. At one end of the spectrum, some Christians used this language to construct a workable and relatively integrated identity for themselves very much within Roman society, while at the same time justifying their existence as a distinct group. At the opposite end, other Christians utilized the same rhetoric both to engage and to contest the basic legitimacy of the move to ground Christian identity in an understanding of the self as 'other.'
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