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Greco-Roman Associations / Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt

John S. Kloppenborg (Autor)

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XXXII, 740 Seiten

2020
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-070768-7 (ISBN)

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Die Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) ist eine der renommiertesten internationalen Buchreihen zur neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Seit 1923 publiziert sie wegweisende Forschungsarbeiten zum frühen Christentum und angrenzenden Themengebieten. Die Reihe ist historisch-kritisch verankert und steht neuen methodischen Ansätzen, die unser Verständnis des Neuen Testaments befördern, gleichfalls offen gegenüber.

Private associations organized around a common cult, occupation, ethnic identity, neighborhood or family were among the principal means of organizing social and economic life in the ancient Mediterranean. They offered opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and contexts in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This volume collects 140 inscriptions and papyri from Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, along with translations, notes, commentary, and analytic indices. The dossier of association-related documents substantially enhances our knowledge of the extent, activities, and importance of private associations in the ancient Mediterranean, since papyri, unavailable from most other locations in the Mediterranean, preserve a much wider range of data than epigraphical monuments. The dossier from Egypt includes not only honorific decrees, membership lists, bylaws, dedications, and funerary monuments, but monthly accounts of expenditures and income, correspondence between guild secretaries and local officials, price and tax declarations, records of legal actions concerning associations, loan documents, petitions to local authorities about associations, letters of resignation, and many other papyrological genres. These documents provide a highly variegated picture of the governance structures and practices of associations, membership sizes and profiles, and forms of interaction with the State.

John S. Kloppenborg , Universität Toronto, Kanada.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 246
Reihe/Serie	Greco-Roman Associations ; Volume III
Zusatzinfo	2 b/w ill., 4 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	1242 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
Schlagworte	Ancient Mediterranean • Ancient Sources. • Social organization
ISBN-10	3-11-070768-3 / 3110707683
ISBN-13	978-3-11-070768-7 / 9783110707687
Zustand	Neuware