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Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete: Dynamics of Early Christian Identity Construction

Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete: Dynamics of Early Christian Identity Construction

Robertson, Michael

Hardcover

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 9004685707
ISBN13: 9789004685703
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 22 2023
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.37
Language: English
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.

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