Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity

1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - Preface [Seite 8]
3 - Contents [Seite 16]
4 - Abbreviations [Seite 18]
5 - Section I: Aspects of Early Christianity [Seite 20]
5.1 - Chapter 1: Why Did Jesus' Followers Call Themselves 'Christians'? [Seite 22]
5.1.1 - 1. The Importance of Christ [Seite 22]
5.1.2 - 2. Christian and pagan adhesion to one god [Seite 24]
5.1.3 - 3. Jesus' followers as 'Christians' [Seite 26]
5.2 - Chapter 2: The Social and Religious Capital of the Early Christians [Seite 32]
5.2.1 - 1. Charity [Seite 35]
5.2.2 - 2. Interconnectedness [Seite 37]
5.2.3 - 3. Family aspects [Seite 39]
5.2.4 - 4. Bonding and bridging [Seite 44]
5.2.5 - 5. Religious capital [Seite 47]
5.2.6 - Conclusion [Seite 50]
5.3 - Chapter 3: Why Did Early Christianity Attract Upper-class Women? [Seite 52]
5.4 - Chapter 4: Pauper or Patroness: the Widow in theEarly Christian Church [Seite 62]
5.4.1 - 1. Jesus and the first Palestine congregations [Seite 63]
5.4.2 - 2. The Greek world [Seite 66]
5.4.3 - 3. The Roman world [Seite 70]
5.4.4 - 4. Syria and Egypt [Seite 73]
5.4.5 - 5. The Christian Empire [Seite 75]
5.4.6 - 6. Conclusions [Seite 82]
5.5 - Chapter 5: Peregrinus' Christian Career [Seite 84]
5.6 - Chapter 6: The Domestication of Early Christian Prophecy [Seite 100]
5.6.1 - 1. The situation in Paul's time [Seite 100]
5.6.2 - 2. The situation around AD 100 [Seite 102]
5.6.3 - 3. Montanism or the revival of prophecy [Seite 106]
5.6.4 - 4. Preliminary conclusions [Seite 110]
5.6.5 - 5. The Ascension of Isaiah and ecstatic prophecy [Seite 111]
6 - Section II: Studies in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostlesand the Pseudo-Clementines [Seite 116]
6.1 - Chapter 7: Women in the Acts of John [Seite 118]
6.1.1 - 1. Lycomedes and Cleopatra (19-29) [Seite 119]
6.1.2 - 2. Andronicus and Drusiana (63-86) [Seite 121]
6.1.3 - 3. Old women and widows (30-7) [Seite 123]
6.1.4 - 4. Conclusion [Seite 128]
6.1.5 - Appendix: date and place of composition of the Acts of John [Seite 130]
6.2 - Chapter 8: Man, Magic, and Martyrdom in the Acts of Andrew [Seite 134]
6.2.1 - 1. Males and females [Seite 139]
6.2.2 - 2. Magic and exorcism [Seite 141]
6.2.3 - 3. Martyrdom [Seite 148]
6.3 - Chapter 9: Aspects of the Acts of Peter: Women, Magic, Place and Date [Seite 152]
6.3.1 - 1. Women [Seite 152]
6.3.2 - 2. Demons and magic [Seite 159]
6.3.3 - 3. Place of origin and date of the APt [Seite 162]
6.4 - Chapter 10: Magic, Martyrdom and Women's Liberation in the Acts of Paul and Thecla [Seite 168]
6.4.1 - 1. Paul and Thecla in Iconium [Seite 169]
6.4.2 - 3. Paul and Thecla in Antioch [Seite 177]
6.4.3 - 4. Composition, name, date, place of origin, author, and aims of the AP [Seite 182]
6.5 - Chapter 11: The Acts of Thomas: Place, Date and Women [Seite 186]
6.5.1 - 1. Women [Seite 190]
6.5.2 - 2. Women and the AAA [Seite 196]
6.6 - Chapter 12: Conversion in the Oldest Apocryphal Acts [Seite 200]
6.6.1 - 1. The Acts of John [Seite 201]
6.6.2 - 2. The Acts of Peter [Seite 206]
6.6.3 - 3. The Acts of Paul [Seite 209]
6.6.4 - 4. Conclusions and general observations [Seite 212]
6.7 - Chapter 13: Magic in the Apocryphal Acts [Seite 216]
6.7.1 - 1. Realities and representations of magic [Seite 217]
6.7.2 - 2. Exorcism [Seite 221]
6.7.3 - 3. The confrontation between the apostle Peter and Simon Magus [Seite 227]
6.7.4 - 4. Conclusions [Seite 235]
6.8 - Chapter 14: The Apocryphal Acts: Authors, Place, Time and Readership [Seite 238]
6.8.1 - 1. Authorship, text and message [Seite 238]
6.8.2 - 2. The chronology and place of origin of the AAA [Seite 240]
6.8.3 - 3. Readership [Seite 244]
6.9 - Chapter 15: Pseudo-Clementines: Texts, Dates, Places, Authors and Magic [Seite 254]
6.9.1 - 1. Text [Seite 254]
6.9.2 - 2. Place and Date of the Grundschrift, Homilies and Recognitions [Seite 258]
6.9.3 - 3. The Author of the Grundschrift [Seite 260]
6.9.4 - 4. Magic [Seite 262]
6.10 - Chapter 16: Apion and Anoubion in the Homilies [Seite 270]
6.10.1 - 1. Athenodorus [Seite 270]
6.10.2 - 2. Annoubion [Seite 271]
6.10.3 - 3. Appion [Seite 275]
6.10.4 - 4. Conclusion [Seite 283]
7 - Section III: Apocalypses and Tours of Hell [Seite 286]
7.1 - Chapter 17: The Apocalypse of Peter: Greek or Jewish? [Seite 288]
7.2 - Chapter 18: The Apocalypse of Peter: Place, Date and Punishments [Seite 300]
7.2.1 - 1. The Date and Place of the Apocalypse of Peter [Seite 300]
7.2.2 - 2. Crimes and punishments [Seite 303]
7.2.3 - 3. The nature and chronology of the tours of hell [Seite 310]
7.3 - Chapter 19: Christian Hell: From the Apocalypse of Peter to the Apocalypse of Paul [Seite 314]
7.3.1 - 1. Date and place of origin [Seite 317]
7.3.2 - 2. Old and new sins and sinners [Seite 321]
7.3.3 - 3. Punishments [Seite 328]
7.3.4 - 4. Conclusion [Seite 331]
7.4 - Chapter 20: Tours of Hell: Greek, Jewish, Roman and Early Christian [Seite 332]
7.4.1 - 1. The Greeks [Seite 333]
7.4.2 - 2. Palestine [Seite 336]
7.4.3 - 3. Rome [Seite 338]
7.4.4 - 4. Early Christianity [Seite 342]
7.4.5 - 5. Conclusion [Seite 347]
7.5 - Chapter 21: Descents to Hell and Ascents to Heavenin Apocalyptic Literature [Seite 348]
7.5.1 - 1. Descents in the classical world [Seite 349]
7.5.2 - 2. An Enochic interlude [Seite 351]
7.5.3 - 3. A descent in Rome [Seite 353]
7.5.4 - 4. Descents in early Christianity [Seite 354]
7.5.5 - 5. Ascent to heaven [Seite 357]
7.5.5.1 - 5.1 The ascent of the soul to heaven: round trips and single journeys [Seite 357]
7.5.5.2 - 5.2 Roundtrips to heaven in vision or 'reality' [Seite 360]
7.5.5.3 - 5.3 Ascent to immortal heavenly life [Seite 362]
7.5.6 - 6. Conclusion [Seite 363]
8 - Section IV: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas [Seite 366]
8.1 - Chapter 22: Perpetua and her Diary: Authenticity, Family and Visions [Seite 368]
8.1.1 - 1. The Acta martyrum [Seite 369]
8.1.2 - 2. The text of the Passion of Perpetua [Seite 372]
8.1.3 - 3. Perpetua and her family [Seite 376]
8.1.4 - 4. Perpetua's visions [Seite 383]
8.1.4.1 - 4.1 Perpetua's Ascent to Heaven [Seite 385]
8.1.4.2 - 4.2 Perpetua and her brother Dinocrates [Seite 392]
8.1.4.3 - 4.3 The fight against the Egyptian [Seite 398]
8.1.5 - 5. Conclusion [Seite 405]
8.2 - Chapter 23: Felicitas: The Martyrdom of a Young African Woman [Seite 406]
8.3 - Chapter 24: The Motivation of Martyrs: Perpetua and the Palestinians [Seite 422]
8.3.1 - 1. The penultimate day [Seite 424]
8.3.2 - 2. The preparations for the execution [Seite 427]
8.3.3 - 3. The motivation of martyrs [Seite 435]
8.4 - Chapter 25: Passio Perpetuae 2, 16 and 17 [Seite 442]
8.4.1 - 2.1-2 [Seite 442]
8.4.2 - 2.3 [Seite 450]
8.4.3 - 16.1 [Seite 451]
8.4.4 - 16.2 [Seite 454]
8.4.5 - 17 [Seite 456]
8.5 - Chapter 26: The Vision of Saturus in the Passio Perpetuae [Seite 458]
8.5.1 - 1. Saturus and (the text of) his vision [Seite 458]
8.5.2 - 2. Saturus' welcome in heaven [Seite 461]
8.5.3 - 3. Conversation with the clergy on earth [Seite 467]
8.5.4 - 4. Conclusion [Seite 472]
8.6 - Chapter 27: Contextualising Heaven in Third-Century North Africa [Seite 474]
8.6.1 - 1. The Passio Sanctorum Mariani et Iacobi [Seite 475]
8.6.2 - 2. The court scene [Seite 476]
8.6.3 - 3. The heavenly landscape [Seite 479]
8.6.4 - 4. The fountain and the cup [Seite 481]
8.6.5 - 5. Marian's heaven [Seite 485]
9 - Acknowledgements [Seite 488]
10 - Index of names, places and passages [Seite 490]