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Aliens and sojourners : self as other in early Christianity /

Why did early Christians claim their "otherness" as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners so vocally? Aliens and Sojourners explores the markedly different ways that Christians used the rhetoric of their own marginality in order to variously situate Christian identity in relation to t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunning, Benjamin H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Colección:Divinations.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Aliens, Christians, and the rhetoric of identity
  • Citizens and aliens
  • Going to Jesus "outside the camp" : alien identity in Hebrews
  • Outsiders by virtue of outdoing : the Epistle to Diognetus
  • Foreign countries and alien assets in the Shepherd of Hermas
  • Strangers and soteriology in the Apocryphon of James.