Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Series Foreword......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 18
I. Archaeology of Domus and Insulae......Page 22
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill: Domus and Insulae in Rome: Families and Housefuls......Page 24
Domus and Insulae......Page 28
The Termini Quarter......Page 31
Within the Insula......Page 35
Monika Trümper: Material and Social Environment of Greco-Roman Households in the East: The Case of Hellenistic Delos......Page 40
House Types in Delos......Page 42
The Use and Social Significance of Delian Houses......Page 47
Delian Houses and Greco-Roman Domestic Architecture......Page 53
Color Plates......Page 65
Eric M. Meyers: The Problems of Gendered Space in Syro-Palestinian Domestic Architecture: The Case of Roman-Period Galilee......Page 73
The Simple House......Page 74
The Complex House......Page 79
The Courtyard House......Page 80
The Peristyle House......Page 83
Gendered Space......Page 87
Conclusion......Page 97
II. Domestic Values: Equality, Suffering......Page 100
The Model......Page 102
Early Christian Equality as "Social Context"......Page 106
David L. Balch: Paul's Portrait of Christ Crucified (Gal. 3:1) in Light of Paintings and Sculptures of Suffering and Death in Pompeiian and Roman Houses......Page 113
Iphigenia......Page 117
Laocoon......Page 121
The Dying Galatians......Page 128
The Crucifix on the Palatine......Page 132
Conclusion: Comparisons and Contrasts......Page 134
III. Women......Page 138
Suzanne Dixon: Sex and the Married Woman in Ancient Rome......Page 140
Spellbound: Ritual and Magic......Page 145
Sex-Bound: Besotted Husbands......Page 151
Genre Crossing: Erotic Motifs Go Conjugal......Page 154
An Inconclusive Conclusion......Page 156
Ross S. Kraemer: Typical and Atypical Family Dynamics: The Cases of Babatha and Berenice......Page 159
The Available Evidence: A Brief Overview......Page 160
Berenice......Page 162
Babatha......Page 166
Comparative Demographics and Family Dynamics......Page 169
Aspects of Family Dynamics for Babatha and Berenice......Page 176
Comparative Family Dynamics — Extrapolating to Larger Jewish Communities?......Page 181
Conclusions......Page 184
Margaret Y. MacDonald: Was Celsus Right? The Role of Women in the Expansion of Early Christianity......Page 186
Women in the Pauline Mission......Page 191
Widows, Teachers, and Prophets......Page 197
Children......Page 202
The Household and Conversion......Page 204
Thecla, the Missionary......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 212
Richard Saller: Women, Slaves, and the Economy of the Roman Household......Page 214
IV. Slaves......Page 234
Dale B. Martin: Slave Families and Slaves in Families......Page 236
Anecdotal Historiography......Page 237
Extended Families......Page 238
Mixed Households......Page 243
Slaves in "Familial" Roles......Page 251
Conclusion......Page 259
J. Albert Harrill: The Domestic Enemy: A Moral Polarity of Household Slaves in Early Christian Apologies and Martyrdoms......Page 260
The Slave as Domestic Enemy: A Tale of Mastercide......Page 262
Vision and Authority: Slave Autopsy in Early Christian Apology......Page 270
Torture and Truth: The Slave Body as Spectacle in Early Christian Martyrdom......Page 275
Conclusion......Page 282
Carolyn Osiek: Female Slaves, Porneia, and the Limits of Obedience......Page 284
The Lives of Female Slaves......Page 288
Sexual Availability......Page 291
Jewish and Christian Slave Owning......Page 293
Porneia......Page 297
Obedient Slaves in Early Christianity......Page 299
V. Children......Page 304
Beryl Rawson: Death, Burial, and Commemoration of Children in Roman Italy......Page 306
Christian Laes: Desperately Different? Delicia Children in the Roman Household......Page 327
Literary Evidence......Page 329
Other Meanings of Delicium/Delicatus......Page 333
Epigraphic Evidence......Page 334
Delicia and Family Inscriptions......Page 340
In Search of an Explanation: A Psychosociological Approach......Page 343
Delicia as Jesters or Pet Animals: A Cultural-Historical Approach......Page 345
Delicia and Pederasty: A Psychological and Anthropological Approach......Page 346
Delicia, the Roman Family, and Roman Concepts of Childhood......Page 349
Delicia in the Christian Household: "Where Did All the Delicia Go?"......Page 351
Conclusion......Page 353
VI. Implications for Theological Education......Page 354
Amy-Jill Levine: Theological Education, the Bible, and History: Détente in the Culture Wars......Page 356
Timothy F. Sedgwick: Theological Education and the Analogical Imagination......Page 366
Introduction: "Theological Education in My Context"......Page 374
Interpretive Propositions......Page 376
Exegetical Illustration......Page 378
Bibliography......Page 388
Acknowledgments......Page 418
Index of Modern Authors......Page 420
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Literature......Page 430