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Reimagining Empire: Early Christian Apologies in the Second Century CE
Reimagining Empire: Early Christian Apologies in the Second Century CE
Reimagining Empire: Early Christian Apologies in the Second Century CE

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211151100
ISBN  
9798342710954
DDC  
880
저자명  
Istok, Alexandria.
서명/저자  
Reimagining Empire: Early Christian Apologies in the Second Century CE
발행사항  
[Sl] : New York University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
283 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Becker, Adam.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약This dissertation examines how early Christian apologies written in Greek in the second century CE use a fictive legal setting to position Christian doctrine as philosophy and to reimagine Roman imperial power. Justin Martyr (in the First Apology and Second Apology), Athenagoras (in the Legatio), and Tatian (in the Oratio ad Graecos) allege that Christians are the victims of unjust violence across the Roman Empire and accordingly write texts to offer a defense against what they deem to be unsubstantiated charges. They all employ the narrative framework of a courtroom scene in their apologies and address their texts to Roman Emperors or a jury of politically powerful men. Scholars have typically read these apologies as distinctively Christian in their genre and content. They have focused on the ways these authors present a marked "Christian" identity in their texts and have understood the claims about Roman violence towards Christians as reflecting a transparent historical reality. Furthermore, because of this label "Christian," scholars have overlooked these texts in the study of the provincial experience of the Roman Empire, and have privileged instead, and especially for the period of the so-called "Second Sophistic," what they have identified as the Greek (i.e. non-Christian) perspective on Roman power.In an effort to amend this oversight and to highlight the rhetoric in these texts that is not limited to identity construction, I resituate these second century apologies as products of the Roman world and analyze the ways the authors use legal settings in their texts. In my focus on the legal setting of these texts, my work explores how notions of justice and law functioned under Roman rule from the perspective of imperial subjects. I read this particular use of fictive forensic spaces as a broadly provincial attachment to juridical scenes and not something distinctively Christian, as others have argued for the martyr acts, the Acta Alexandrinorum, the writings of Tertullian, and the trial scenes in Greek novels.I propose that Justin, Athenagoras, and Tatian use fictive legal settings to authorize their arguments about Christian philosophical ideas by adapting the pairing of an imagined juridical setting with a discussion of philosophy from classical Greek works - exemplified in Gorgias' Defense of Palamedes, Isocrates' Antidosis, and most famously, Plato's Apology - for their own provincial ends. In chapter one, looking back to Gorgias' Defense of Palamedes, Plato's Apology, and Isocrates' Antidosis, I examine how these authors employ a fictional courtroom in their texts and analyze explicit comments they make about the rhetorical uses of a legal defense speech (ἀπολογία) as well as their justifications for discussing philosophical positions. And for the works of Isocrates and Plato in particular, I highlight the connection between their use of legal fictions and their ability to control the narrative around their own legacies and around the death and importance of Socrates. In chapters two, three, and four, I turn to each of the early Christian apologies and analyze what these fictive courtrooms do for them and what kinds of imaginings about empire, justice, philosophy, and Christians the legal setting makes possible.
일반주제명  
Classical literature
일반주제명  
Religion
키워드  
apology
키워드  
early Christian
키워드  
legal
키워드  
provinces
키워드  
Roman Empire
키워드  
second century
기타저자  
New York University Classics
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
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