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Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete
Michael Robertson
其他書名
Dynamics of Early Christian Identity Construction
出版BRILL, 2023-11-20
主題Religion / Christianity / General
ISBN90046857159789004685710
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hNP7EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This volume argues that Titus’s invocation of Crete affected the ways early readers developed their identities. Using archaeological data, classical writings, and early Christian documents, he describes multiple traditions that circulated on Crete and throughout the Roman Empire concerning Cretan Zeus, Cretan social structure, and Cretan Judaism. He then uses these traditions to interpret Titus and explain how the letter would intersect with and affect readers’ identities. Because readers had differing conceptions of Crete based on their location and access to and evaluation of Cretan traditions, readers would have developed their identities in multiple, conflictual, even contradictory ways.