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1 Religious Inventions: Introduction
Section one: Religion as a Category of Study
2 Inventing Religion in Elephantine: Judeans and Egyptians under Persian Hegemony
3 Second-Century Constructions of Christianity
4 Theorizing Historical Moments of Religion: Paul and His Followers
5 Response: Religion as a Category of Study
Section two: Undoing Text
6 Monsters, Hybridity, and Text: A Cautionary Tale
7 As it Was Written: The Gospel of Matthew as a Symbolic Artifact
8 Would You Know a Jewish Gospel if You Saw It? Ignatius, Jerome, Eusebius, and the Search for the Hebrew Gospel
9 Do as I Say Not as They Do: Social Construction in the Epistle of Barnabas through Canonical Interpretation and Ritual
10 Witnessing Disaster: Mark's Gospel as a Monument to the Catastrophe of Jesus's Death
11 Response: Undoing Text
Section three: Practice and Identity
12 "Hybridity," "Identity," and the Ancient Mediterranean World
13 Jesus, Paul, and the Geography of Magic
14 Spontaneous or Solicited? A Methodological Problem in the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy as Divination
15 Trauma, Meaning-Making, and Christian Identity Formation in Justin's Dialogue with Trypho
16 Jubilees and Jewishness in Hasmonean Judea: Linking Text and Context in the Study of Jewish Identity with the Help of Ethnic Studies
17 Scripture and the Social Formation of "Displaced" Religious Communities
18 Response: Practice and Identity
19 The Enchanted World of Antiquity: On Incommensurability, Religion, and Comparison
20 Comparison and (Dis-)Continuity: The Case of Philo and the Alexandrian Christians
21 Euergetism in Comparative Perspective: Did the "Ideal Benefactor" Exist in Christ Groups?
22 Is It Culture All the Way Down?.
23 The Universality of Spirit Possession Revisited
24 Response: Comparison
Contributors
Index.
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Contents
Figures and Tables
1 Religious Inventions: Introduction
Section one: Religion as a Category of Study
2 Inventing Religion in Elephantine: Judeans and Egyptians under Persian Hegemony
3 Second-Century Constructions of Christianity
4 Theorizing Historical Moments of Religion: Paul and His Followers
5 Response: Religion as a Category of Study
Section two: Undoing Text
6 Monsters, Hybridity, and Text: A Cautionary Tale
7 As it Was Written: The Gospel of Matthew as a Symbolic Artifact
8 Would You Know a Jewish Gospel if You Saw It? Ignatius, Jerome, Eusebius, and the Search for the Hebrew Gospel
9 Do as I Say Not as They Do: Social Construction in the Epistle of Barnabas through Canonical Interpretation and Ritual
10 Witnessing Disaster: Mark's Gospel as a Monument to the Catastrophe of Jesus's Death
11 Response: Undoing Text
Section three: Practice and Identity
12 "Hybridity," "Identity," and the Ancient Mediterranean World
13 Jesus, Paul, and the Geography of Magic
14 Spontaneous or Solicited? A Methodological Problem in the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy as Divination
15 Trauma, Meaning-Making, and Christian Identity Formation in Justin's Dialogue with Trypho
16 Jubilees and Jewishness in Hasmonean Judea: Linking Text and Context in the Study of Jewish Identity with the Help of Ethnic Studies
17 Scripture and the Social Formation of "Displaced" Religious Communities
18 Response: Practice and Identity
19 The Enchanted World of Antiquity: On Incommensurability, Religion, and Comparison
20 Comparison and (Dis-)Continuity: The Case of Philo and the Alexandrian Christians
21 Euergetism in Comparative Perspective: Did the "Ideal Benefactor" Exist in Christ Groups?
22 Is It Culture All the Way Down?.
23 The Universality of Spirit Possession Revisited
24 Response: Comparison
Contributors
Index.