Toward a Typology of Religious Experts in the Ancient Mediterranean

Ullucci, Daniel

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“…In opposition to these views, another group of scholars has argued that the symbolic interpretations of sacrifice preserved in written texts derive from a particular class of religious experts in the ancient world and cannot be taken as representative of a broad or general understanding of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean. Gilders (2011), Stowers (2011b) and Ullucci (2011, 2012, 2013) are representative of this position.…”

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“…By arguing that Philo was a literate cultural producer of the type Stowers outlines, Gilders places Philo in a coherent field of philosophical production and competition, without assuming that he is representative of first-century Judean understandings of sacrifice (2011: 102-103). My own work (Ullucci 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) has built on Stowers’s model by further explicating the ways in which competition worked within the religion of the literate cultural producer. Ullucci (2011 and 2013) take up the idea of critique of sacrifice (long a part of the discussion of the notion of spiritual sacrifice, discussed below) and reframe it as the process of cultural producers in competition.…”

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“…My own work (Ullucci 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) has built on Stowers’s model by further explicating the ways in which competition worked within the religion of the literate cultural producer. Ullucci (2011 and 2013) take up the idea of critique of sacrifice (long a part of the discussion of the notion of spiritual sacrifice, discussed below) and reframe it as the process of cultural producers in competition. Ullucci (2013) proposes a typology of religious experts in the ancient Mediterranean and their competition over sacrifice based on Stowers’s model.…”

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“…Ullucci (2011 and 2013) take up the idea of critique of sacrifice (long a part of the discussion of the notion of spiritual sacrifice, discussed below) and reframe it as the process of cultural producers in competition. Ullucci (2013) proposes a typology of religious experts in the ancient Mediterranean and their competition over sacrifice based on Stowers’s model.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sacrifice in the Ancient Mediterranean: Recent and Current Research

Ullucci

2015

Currents in Biblical Research

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This essay provides a summary and critical assessment of scholarship on sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean over the last two decades. It focuses on Greek, Roman, Judean and Christian evidence from approximately the eighth century bce to the fifth century ce. Significant attention is paid to theoretical models, which have deeply affected the study of sacrifice. Archeological evidence for sacrifice is considered. The following areas of current scholarly debate are addressed and assessed: (1) the reach and role of religious experts;(2) sacrifice as communication and failed sacrifice; (3) the notion of spiritualization; (4) metaphorical and symbolic uses of sacrifice; and (5) sacrifice and identity. Sacrifice is theorized not as a static category or ontological thing, but a nexus of competitive ritualizations and/or discursive claims, the boundaries of which were actively contested by ancient practitioners and cultural producers.

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Section: Discourse On Sacrificementioning

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Section: Discourse On Sacrificementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discourse On Sacrificementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discourse On Sacrificementioning

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Sacrifice in the Ancient Mediterranean: Recent and Current Research

Ullucci

2015

Currents in Biblical Research

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“… 13 Select publications include: Dickie 2001; Frankfurter 2002; Klingshirn 2006; Johnston 2008: 109–82; Rives 2010; Ripat 2011; Graf and Johnston 2013; Ullucci 2013. For earlier studies of the evidence, see MacMullen 1966; Smith 1978; Potter 1994; Francis 1995.…”

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Ea Superstitione:Christian Martyrdom and the Religion of Freelance Experts

Wendt

2015

J. Rom. Stud.

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This paper situates Roman actions undertaken against Christians amidst an unofficial pattern of measures employed throughout the imperial period to manage the expanding influence of freelance religious experts. Questions about the historical circumstances of martyrdom or persecution tend to proceed from the assumption that Christians were perceived and dealt with as a distinct religious community. However, the penalties alleged by writers such as Paul and Justin were more commonly issued against self-authorized individuals (magi, astrologers, prophets, diviners, philosophers, and so forth) than against undifferentiated religious groups. Thus, I propose that Roman motivations for investigating and punishing Christians, at least in the first and second centuries, are best understood in relation to the wider phenomenon of freelance expertise and the range of concerns that it engendered.

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Toward a Typology of Religious Experts in the Ancient Mediterranean

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Sacrifice in the Ancient Mediterranean: Recent and Current Research

Sacrifice in the Ancient Mediterranean: Recent and Current Research

Ea Superstitione:Christian Martyrdom and the Religion of Freelance Experts

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