<i>Ea Superstitione:</i>Christian Martyrdom and the Religion of Freelance Experts

Wendt, Heidi

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“…For an alternative interpretation, see De Vos 1999. For law enforcement measures taken by Roman power against self-proclaimed religious experts, see Wendt 2015.…”

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The Provincial Contexts of Paul’s Imprisonments: Law Enforcement and Criminal Procedure in the Roman East

Brélaz

2021

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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This article explores the legal contexts which led to the multiple imprisonments experienced by the Paul of the letters (as attested in particular by Phil. 1.13) and depicted also in Acts, contrasting these with the numerous occasions where the apostle faced opposition or even violence from local populations and authorities without being jailed. By looking at the realities of law enforcement operations and criminal procedures in the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, this article helps reassess two major issues with regard to the rise of Christ-groups from the middle of the first to the beginning of the second century, namely: For what reasons were Christians arrested and imprisoned by Roman authorities? What was the agenda of the author of Acts in paying so much attention to the legal context of Paul’s arrest and later transfer to the emperor’s court?

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“…For an alternative interpretation, see De Vos 1999. For law enforcement measures taken by Roman power against self-proclaimed religious experts, see Wendt 2015.…”

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The Provincial Contexts of Paul’s Imprisonments: Law Enforcement and Criminal Procedure in the Roman East

Brélaz

2021

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Speaking of grief and the grief of speaking: martyrs’ speech and the perils of translation

Kotrosits

2016

Culture and Religion

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Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire

Janssen

2024

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The Roman Empire’s approach to religion has traditionally been described in ambiguous terms. On the one hand, Rome has often been regarded as almost proverbially tolerant, as well as highly flexible in its dealings with the diverse range of religious cults and practices within its territories. On the other hand, the Roman religious landscape was not without its limits, and there were certain groups who found themselves, for one reason or another, on the outside. Within scholarship, however, the legal interactions between such groups and the Roman authorities have widely been studied in isolation. This book instead takes a comparative approach, and investigates how members of various marginalized religious groups were embedded in, and interacted with, the wider Roman legal system. It compares and contrasts the legal treatment of private diviners, Jewish communities, and early Christians, and in doing so aims to provide a broader perspective on the legal treatment of marginalized religion in the Roman world. The study suggests that the known interactions between these respective groups and the Roman authorities are best understood within the wider context of Roman law and administration, and argues that they furthermore shared a number of important characteristics. While the treatment these groups received was certainly not in all respects identical, the procedural, socio-political, and ideological mechanisms that underpinned the relevant legal measures were nonetheless conspicuously similar.

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Ea Superstitione:Christian Martyrdom and the Religion of Freelance Experts

Cited by 17 publications

References 49 publications

The Provincial Contexts of Paul’s Imprisonments: Law Enforcement and Criminal Procedure in the Roman East

The Provincial Contexts of Paul’s Imprisonments: Law Enforcement and Criminal Procedure in the Roman East

Speaking of grief and the grief of speaking: martyrs’ speech and the perils of translation

Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire

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