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Ausgabe:

Juni/2019

Spalte:

574–576

Kategorie:

Altertumswissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Alkier, Stefan, u. Hartmut Leppin [Hrsg.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Juden – Heiden – Christen? Religiöse Inklusionen und Exklusionen im Römischen Kleinasien bis Decius.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2018. VI, 453 S. = Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 400. Lw. EUR 149,00. ISBN 978-3-16-153706-6.

Rezensent:

Paula Fredriksen

Ancient Mediterranean people were ethnic essentialists. That is, they thought that specific cultural and social characteristics – including attachments to particular gods – ran in the blood. Eth-nicity, cult, ancestral custom and syngeneia functioned as virtual synonyms. The apostle Paul, for one prominent example, thought that Jews were Jews and that pagan ›sinners‹ were pagan ›sinners‹ physei, »by nature« (Gal 2.15; for a lush list of »naturally pagan« sins, Rom 1.18–32). Even once such pagans were »adopted« into the family of Abraham by infusion of divine spirit, they were nevertheless engrafted into the eschatological olive tree para physin, »against nature« (Rom 11.24).
Classical ethnographers agreed. Humanity fell into families, ...


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