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“NEITHER WITH THE OPINIONS OF THE GREEKS NOR WITH THE CUSTOMS OF THE BARBARIANS”: THE USE OF CLASSIC GREEK IMAGERY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

Nair, Jacquelyn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1377618049

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2013, Master of Arts, Miami University, Comparative Religion.
Early Christianity is often conceived as having formed in a vacuum, but in reality the surrounding Greek culture—including the myths and cults—greatly influenced the fledgling religion. This paper seeks to flesh out the ways in which the early Christian communities in the Mediterranean adopted and redeployed Greco-Roman polytheistic symbols for their own purposes. On the one hand, the Christian communities may synthesize Greek and Jewish lore together to reduce a sense of “otherness;” but on the other hand the community may adopt a Greek symbol and redefine it as purely Christian, thus heightening “otherness.” This project seeks to do this by looking at two texts, book one of The Sibylline Oracles and the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch, through a postcolonial and mimetic lens. This paper also suggests implications for future research
James Hanges, PhD (Advisor)
Scott Kenworthy, PhD (Committee Member)
Kevin Osterloh, PhD (Committee Member)
70 p.
Religious History
Christianity, Greek Culture, Apocalypse of Baruch, Sibylline Oracles, Rome, Greece, Myth, Phoenix, Early Christian Literature, Post Colonial Theory, Mimetic Thoery

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  • Nair, J. (2013). “NEITHER WITH THE OPINIONS OF THE GREEKS NOR WITH THE CUSTOMS OF THE BARBARIANS”: THE USE OF CLASSIC GREEK IMAGERY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1377618049

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nair, Jacquelyn . “NEITHER WITH THE OPINIONS OF THE GREEKS NOR WITH THE CUSTOMS OF THE BARBARIANS”: THE USE OF CLASSIC GREEK IMAGERY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE. 2013. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1377618049.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nair, Jacquelyn . "“NEITHER WITH THE OPINIONS OF THE GREEKS NOR WITH THE CUSTOMS OF THE BARBARIANS”: THE USE OF CLASSIC GREEK IMAGERY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1377618049

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