Contested Ethnicities and Images

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Studies in Acts and Arts

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Cover
Preface
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Luke-Acts (Chapters 1-11)
Part Two: Roman Domestic Art and the New Testament (Chapters 12-18)
Part Three: Two Book Reviews (Chapters 19-20)
Part One: Luke-Acts
Chapter 1: The Contested Movements in Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem toward Citizenships/Memberships of Multiple Ethnicities (Introducing Chapters 2-11)
1. Will Romans, Greeks, Jews, and/or Christians Accept or Reject Citizenships/Memberships of Multiple Ethnicities?
1.1 Narratives and Deliberative Speeches Constructed by Dionysius concerning a Citizenship of Multiple Ethnicities
1.2 A century after Dionysius, Luke-Acts also urges readers/churches to acculturate the Roman practice of a membership of plural ethnicities
1.3 Social/political conflict around ethnicity is so common that Lucian can satirize it
further, whether an ethnic group accepts other ethnic groups is contested and forms the basis of praising or criticizing other groups
2. Emma Dench and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill's Recent Studies of Changing Greco-Roman Ethnic Attitudes and Practices
3. Roman imperial, aggressive plural ethnicity challenges not only the Greek Dionysius, but also challenges early Jews and early Christians
4. Both Dionysius and the author of Luke-Acts reevaluate their traditions: what is the place of Athens/Jerusalem, and which ancient writers are most authoritative in the present, while living under Rome?
5. Postcolonial Interpretation: Will Those Conquered by Rome Acculturate by Changing their Languages, Customs, Laws, and Gods/ Goddesses?
5.1 Study of colonized Greeks under Rome and Contemporary Postcolonial Studies
5.2 Political, internal conflict around adapting languages/customs/ god(esse)s/laws in the Greek authors Dionysius and Luke-Acts in the Context of the Early Roman Empire
Chapter 2: Two Apologetic Encomia: Dionysius on Rome and Josephus on the Jews
1. Menander of Laodicea, How One Praises Cities (Spengel 346,26-365,9)
2. Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Apologetic Encomium of Rome (Roman Antiquities 1.9-2.29)
3. Josephus' Apologetic Encomium of the Jews (Against Apion 2.145-295)
Chapter 3: The Areopagus Speech: An Appeal to the Stoic Historian Posidonius against Later Stoics and the Epicureans
1. Posidonius: Providence in Nature
1.1 Acts 17:26
1.2 Acts 17:27a
2. Posidonius: Providence in History
3. Posidonius: Opposition to Images of the Deity
4. The Areopagus Speech against the Defence of Images by Dio Chrysostom, Oration 12
4.1 Acts 17:19-20
4.2 Acts 17:21
4.3 Acts 17:22
4.4 Acts 17:23
4.5 Acts 17:24
4.6 Acts 17:25
4.7 Acts 17:26
4.8 Acts 17:27-29
4.9 Acts 17:30-31
Chapter 4: Rich and Poor, Proud and Humble in Luke-Acts
Introduction
1. Lukan Language concerning Rich and Poor, Proud and Humble
2. Greek and Roman Language and Stories of Revolts of the Poor against the Rich, the Humble against the Proud
2.1 Isocrates, as Interpreted by Alexander Fuks
2.2 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dependent on Isocrates
3. Forgiving Debts
3.1 Sabbatical for Land and the Year of Jubilee (Leviticus 25)
3.2 Stoic Teachers in Sparta and the Gracchi Brothers in Rome
3.3 Date, Theory and Practice of Forgiving Debts
4. Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 5: Paul in Acts: ". You Teach All the Jews . to Forsake Moses, Telling Them Not to . Observe the Customs" (Acts 21:21)
1. Customs
2. Aliens
3. Philanthropic?
4. Roman policy
5. Forbidden?
6. "Receive" outsiders?
7. Theology
Chapter 6: Political Friendship in the Historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities
1. War between Friends: Romans and Sabines (Ant. rom. 3)
2. Sedition among Friends: Patricians and Plebeians (Ant. rom. 6)
3. Coriolanus, Lover of His Country and Hater of Its Poor Plebeians? (Ant. rom. 7)
4. Coriolanus, a Just Enemy of Former Roman Friends? (Ant. rom. 8)
5. Conclusions
Chapter 7: Attitudes toward Foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts
1. 2 Maccabees
2. Eupolemus
3. Greek Additions to Esther
4. Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates
5. Luke-Acts
Chapter 8: ????ß?? . ????a? (Luke 1:3): To Write the Full History of God's Receiving All Nations
1. Modern and Ancient Debates concerning the Historicity and Function of Speeches in Hellenistic Historiography
2. The Reception of Gentiles/Foreigners in the Speeches of Luke-Acts
3. Hellenistic Jewish History, Written in Jerusalem, on Receiving Foreigners
4. Conclusions
Appendix
Chapter 9: The Cultural Origin of "Receiving All Nations" in Luke-Acts: Alexander the Great or Roman Social Policy?
1. Dionysius and Plutarch on Romulus Accepting Foreigners
2. Luke-Acts
3. Alexander the Great according to Arrian
4. Alexander the Great according to the Vulgate Tradition
5. Curtius and the Emperor Claudius
6. Conclusion
Chapter 10: ???????? ???????O?: Jesus as Founder of the Church in Luke-Acts: Form and Function
1. Rethinking the Significance of Genre
1.1 Genre and Meaning
1.2 Implications for Luke
2. Founders and Foundings: Comparing Greco-Roman Stories
2.1 Beginnings
2.2 Portents and Divine Births
2.3 Divine Titles
2.4 Miracles
2.5 Instructions
2.6 Stasis
2.7 Violent/Sudden Death
2.8 Epiphanies
2.9 Sending out/Founding a Colony
2.10 Divine Direction
2.11 Journeying
2.12 Reception of Founder or Colonists/Missionaries
2.13 Growth
2.14 Mixing
2.15 Changing Names
2.16 Language
2.17 Conclusion
3. Founders/Successors and the Changing of Customs
3.1 Plutarch and Changing the Constitution
3.2 Luke-Acts and Changing the Constitution
4. Jesus, a Founder without a City or Temple?
5. Conclusion: Founders, Change, and Continuity
Chapter 11: Accepting Others: God's Boundary Crossing according to Isaiah and Luke-Acts
1. Jesus' and Peter's Sermons Interpreting the Bible (Luke 4 & Acts 10)
2. The Theme of "Acceptance" in Luke-Acts: Proclamation and Crossing Social/Ethnic Boundaries
3. Have Lukan House Churches Changed Moses' Customs? No, God Prophesied Acceptance, so This Change Is Not a Change!
4. Growth and Change?
5. Founders, Agents of Change, Die
6. After Change, after Death, Some Leave Town
They Are "Sent Out"
7. God's Character in Luke-Acts
8. The Story of God's Action Ritualized in Meals
9. Will the ELCA Accept God's Acceptance of Allophyloi/LGBT Pastors?
Part Two: Roman Art and the New Testament
Chapter 12: Image and Text in Luke-Acts: Subverting Roman Imperial Images (Introducing Chapters 13-18)
Chapter 13: Women Prophets/Maenads Visually Represented in Two Roman Colonies: Pompeii and Corinth
1. Roman Domestic Art in Pompeii and Corinth: Dionysus and Death
1.1 Two Roman Colonies, Pompeii and Corinth: Two Amphitheaters
1.1.1 The Date/Century of the Corinthian Amphitheater
1.1.2 Early Textual References to the Corinthian Amphitheater
1.2 Methodology: Roman Domestic Art and Texts, the Latter Only If They Support the Art
2. Dionysian Myth, Ritual, and Visual Representations in Corinth, Athens, and Sicyon
2.1 Visual Representations of the Deaths of Dionysus and Pentheus in Roman Colonies
2.1.1 The Roman Dionysus, God of Wine Harvest, No Longer of Tragedy?
2.1.2 "Resistance" to Worship of Dionysus in Roman Athens and Corinth
2.2 Dirce and the City of Sicyon, a Polis near Corinth
3. Comparison of Dionysian and Corinthian Christian Enthusiasm
4. Summary and Conclusions: Comparisons and Contrasts
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Chapter 14: Artists in Pre-Roman Corinth and Sicyon
1-3. Kleanthes, Butades, Kanachos
4. Polykleitos
5-7. Eupompos, Pamphilos, Lysippos
8-10. Lysistratos, Pausias, Glaucion
11-13. Athenion, Apelles, Euphranor
Conclusion and Questions
Chapter 15: Values of Roman Women Including Priests Visually Represented in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Introduction: Prof. Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ
1. Casa dei Dioscuri (VI 9,6.7
fig. 1) in Pompeii: Heroic Masculine and "Universal" Feminine Paradigms
2. "The Mythological Paintings in the Macellum at Pompeii"
3. The Nigidii family and the Casa dei Dioscuri
4. The Vesting of a Priestess in Herculaneum
5. A Caution
6. An Imaginative Conclusion
Bibliography
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Chapter 16: The Church Sitting in a Garden (1 Cor 14:30
Rom 16:23
Mark 6:39-40
8:6
John 6:3, 10
Acts 1:15
2:1-2)
1. Current State of Research and a Proposed Supplementary Methodology
1.1 Current State of Research
1.2 Supplementary Methodology
2. Sitting in Domestic Spaces
2.1 Sitting in Inns and Taverns in Pompeii
2.2 Sitting in Gardens in the Open
2.3 Peristyle Gardens
2.3.1 Sitting in Peristyle Gardens
2.3.2 The Growing Social and Political Importance of Peristyle Gardens
3. Visual Representations of Persons Sitting
3.1 Poets and Philosophers
3.2 Furniture for Sitting as Visually Represented in Pompeian Frescoes
4. Numbers of Non-Elite Diners Sitting in Gardens and Taverns
5. Summary and Conclusions
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusions
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Chapter 17: Cult Statues of Augustus' Temple of Apollo on the Palatine in Rome, Artemis'/Diana's Birthday in Ephesus, and Revelation 12:1-5a
1. Brief Summary of Previous Research: Isis/Io in the Temple of Isis, the Market, and Houses of Pompeii, and in the so-called Casa di Livia in Rome
2. Cult Statues in Augustus' Temple of Apollo on the Palatine: Leto/ Latona, Mother of Twins, Apollo and Artemis/Diana
3. The Ritual Birthday of Artemis/Diana in Ephesus
4. Conclusions
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Chapter 18: Women's Fatal Loves in Art and Text: Helen, Medea, Phaedra, Thecla, Perpetua, and Felicitas
1. The House of Fatal Loves (IX 5,18) in Pompeii, Room (e)
2. Fatal Spectacles Visually Represented in Pompeian Gardens including Dirce Visually Represented Being Dragged by a Bull
3. Fatal Loves of Women Christian Martyrs: Thecla, Perpetua and Felicitas
3.1 Thecla
3.2 Perpetua and Felicitas
4. Conclusions and Questions
Bibliography
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Part Three: Book Reviews
Chapter 19: A Summary and Critique of Nicolas Wiater, The Ideology of Classicism: Language, History, and Identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 105
Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011)
1. Who Was the Rhetorician, Biographer, Historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus?
2. Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Classical Greek Identity (versus Platonists and Aristotelians!) in the Early Roman Empire - according to Nicolas Wiater
3. Dionysius' Criticism of the Historian Thucydides - according to Wiater
4. Dionysius' Aim in the Antiquitates: A Greek Past for the Roman Present - according to Wiater
5. The Greek Dionysius' Dialogue with Roman Ideologies and Practices of Ethnicity
Chapter 20: Review of Frederick E. Brenk, With Unperfumed Voice
1. Plutarch's Eschatology?
2. Plutarch's Monotheism
3. Osiris, a Dying and Rising God?
4. Contrasts with Paul?
Credits for Original Publications of Chapters 2-11, 13, 15-17
Credits for Visual Representations
Indices
1. Ancient Authors
Hebrew Bible
Septuagint
Second Testament
Apocryphal Literature
Pseudepigraphical Literature
Greco-Roman Literature
Inscriptions
Jewish/Rabbinic Literature
Early Christian Literature
2. Index of Modern Authors
2.1 Luke-Acts (Chaps. 1-11, 19-20)
2.2 Roman Art and the New Testament (Chaps. 12-18, 20)
3. Index of Architectural Structures and their Decorations
3.1 Cities and their buildings
3.2 Decorations
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