Aliens and Sojourners: Self as Other in Early Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

by Benjamin H . Dunning (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $68.42

  Why did early Christians claim their otherness as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners so vocally? Aliens and Sojourners explores the markedly different ways that Christians used the rhetoric of their own marginality in order to variously situate Christian identity in relation to the ancient Roman world.