Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity

Eduard Iricinschi (Herausgegeben von) Born 1968; MA in Religious Studies from New York University; PhD in the Religions of Late Antiquity from Princeton University; currently visiting research fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr University Bochum.Holger Michael Zellentin (Herausgegeben von) Born 1976; 2007 PhD Princeton University; has taught at Rutgers University, the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and at the University of California, Berkeley; teaches Jewish Studies at the University of Nottingham; 2012 Early Career Fellowship of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).

• Content:Eduard Iricinschi and Holger Zellentin: Introduction. From Heresy to Heresiology: Recent Trends in Scholarship and the Contribution of This Volume - Karen L. King: Social and Theological Effects of Heresiological Discourse - William E. Arnal: Doxa, Heresy, and Self-Construction. The Pauline Ekklesiai and the Boundaries of Urban Identities - Averil Cameron: The Violence of Orthodoxy - Yannis Papadoyannakis: Defining Orthodoxy in Pseudo-Justin's "Quaestiones et responsiones ad orthodoxos" - Caroline Humfress: Citizens and Heretics: Late Roman Lawyers on Christian Heresy - Richard Lim: The Nomen Manichaeorum and Its Uses in Late Antiquity - Annette Yoshiko Reed: Heresiology and the (Jewish-)Christian Novel: Narrativized Polemics in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies - Kevin Lee Osterloh: Judea, Rome and the Hellenistic Oikoumenê: Emulation and the Reinvention of Communal Identity - Philippa Townsend: Who Were the First Christians? - John G. Gager: Where Does Luke's Anti-Judaism Come from? - Holger Zellentin: Margin of Error: Bavli Shabbat 116a-b as Polemics, Apology, and Heresiology - Burton L. Visotzky: Goys 'Я'n't Us: Rabbinic Anti-Gentile Polemic in Yerushalmi Berachot 9:1 - Eduard Iricinschi: If You Got It, Flaunt It: Religious Advertising in the Gospel of Philip - Gregg Gardner: Astrology in the Talmud: An Analysis of Bavli Shabbat 156 - Israel Jacob Yuval: The Other in Us: Liturgica, Poetica, Polemica