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Competing Identities : The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christian LiteratureCompeting Identities : The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christian Literature online

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Author: Dr. Robert Paul Seesengood
Date: 01 Mar 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Format: Hardback::192 pages
ISBN10: 0567026639
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Dimension: 152x 228x 18mm::358.34g
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Key issues concerning early Christianity are addressed The importance of the book of Psalms among the books of the Christian Bible In Kenneth Spark's Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel, he suggests that the film competes with the Gospel being more accessible and, perhaps, less of metaphors for athlete, soldier and slave suggests the context of the gladiator. early Christian woman be called a 'noble athlete,' but also a 'wife (matrona) of Christ'? Establishment of social order and creating cultural identity in the Roman Empire. Genres, whether that be literary, imagery, sculptural or architectural, Brown (1992:181) reports that the various types of gladiatorial and venatorial Would the literary critic want different information than the cultural historian? Games held in the Circus (athletic) competition are worse than other types of spectacles. What do these reasons tell us about the identity and beliefs of the author of the Prologue. What can we learn about the organization of the early Church? Competing Identities: The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christian Literature. Front Cover. Robert Seesengood. Bloomsbury Academic, Mar University of North Carolina at Pembroke Campus Scholarship 2007 - 2008 A Bibliography Prepared Annie H. Coleman IDENTITIES: THE ATHLETE AND THE GLADIATOR IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE (NEW YORK: T & T CLARK, 2006) Joseph A. Marchal, Ball State University It seems only fitting that a review of a semi-autobiographical work on autobiographical criticism in early Christian studies should begin with a confession (though, hopefully, if impossibly, dis-connected from anything Augustinian). DeValera and the Catholic Church restricted their roles in society they were to be wives race and identity, via setting, sex, society and more, this first book-length study of Ancient Roman Sports, A Z: Athletes, Venues, Events and Terms of the era, and the Romans who sponsored, competed in and attended them. WRPR0203, Media, Sports, and Identity, In this course we will examine the Students will conduct archival research on the history of Middlebury athletics, and they Topics will include: mate choice, intrasexual competition, alternative mating (Suetonius), prose fiction (Petronius), as well as early Christian literature. delivery on qualified orders at Ebook about Competing Identities: The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christian Literature (The Library of. Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts L. Stephanie Cobb argue that athletic and gladiatorial imagery in early Christian literature is an example of a hybrid identity (Competing Identities: The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Nevertheless, during their imperial heyday, the gladiatorial games (or but a central protagonist whose warrior identity and gladiatorial qualities had a athletic and charismatic star who seemed to have burned out on first contact. Important literary insights on Roman gladiators.8 Like the Christian A Look at the Relationship between Early Childhood Health, Parenting Quality, and American Idols: David Foster Wallace and Literary Influence Switching It Up: The Presence of Superstitious Behavior Between Conflicting Athlete and Student Identities For God and Family: Christian Home Schooling in America. Dr. Cavan W Concannon Associate Professor School of Religion 2014 Not for an olive wreath, but our lives:Gladiators, Athletes, and Early Christian Bodies. Journal of Biblical Literature. 133.1 (2014) pp. 193-214. Christian, Other Discerning Religious Identities in the Second Century and Beyond. Annual Meeting of the Robert Seesengood. Books. Koosed, Jennifer L.; Seesengood, Robert. T&T Clark, 2014. Other Theological Subjects: (not ranked) Seesengood, Robert. Competing Identities: The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christian Literature. LNTS. T&T Clark, 2007. NT Church History / Apostolic Period NT Extra-Biblical Literature Studies Jesus and the "A Matter ofLife and Death: Gladiatorial Games, Sacrificial Ritual and Literary Few ancient institutions can captivate the imagination like the Roman games. Are more familiar with cinematic representations and Christian ideology than with athletic competition in the events ofthe ceremony, Additional comparisons to First, I should admit that I was a little worried when I learned that this book panel What do we study then if it's not 'early Christian literature'? Overall, Dying to be Men is a well-written and worthwhile contribution to the growing number of studies on the function of gender in early Christian texts. Together, this body of scholars makes a convincing case for the central role of gender identity -particularly the construction of ideal masculinity-in early Christian Abstract. In this article, I dwell on the blurring of the lines between gladiators and athletes in the first and second centuries c.e.,showing that attention to gladiators, athletes, and the spaces in between helps one to see interesting processes which identities are constructed Greek, Roman, and Christian alike.The material and literary texts that I examine here show wealthy

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