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Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit

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The modern cult of celebrity, commencing with Garibaldi, Byron, and Whitman, is compared to the quest for glory in late republican and early imperial Roman society. Studies based on the documentary and literary sources - including the "great man," the elite quest for civic honour, the Mediterranean athletic ideal, the ethical curriculum of the gymnasium, and local association values - provide the basis for James R. Harrison to assess the ancient preoccupation with fame, hierarchy, and status. He shows how Paul's gospel of the crucified Christ stood out in a culture obsessed with mutual comparison, boasting, and self-sufficiency. It departed from the self-exalting mores of classical culture and enshrined humility and other-centeredness in the western intellectual tradition. As such, the soteriological power of the cross became an impetus not only for individual moral transformation but also for social change.

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ISBN: 9783161546150
Publication date: 20th November 2019
Author: James R Harrison
Publisher: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 466 pages
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
Genres: New Testaments
Ancient history
New Testaments
Theology