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Beyond Priesthood Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten Herausgegeben von Jörg Rüpke und Christoph Uehlinger Band 66 Beyond Priesthood Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire Edited by Richard L. Gordon, Georgia Petridou, and Jörg Rüpke ISBN 978-3-11-044701-9 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-044818-4 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-044764-4 ISSN 0939-2580 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Table of Contents Acknowledgements VII Bibliographical Note IX List of Illustrations XI Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction 5 Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits Jörg Rüpke and Federico Santangelo Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome 15 Jan N. Bremmer Lucian on Peregrinus and Alexander of Abonuteichos: A sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs 49 Nicola Denzey Lewis Lived Religion among second-century ‘Gnostic hieratic specialists’ 79 AnneMarie Luijendijk On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250–400) 103 Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur Angela Standhartinger Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo’s representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides 129 Annette Weissenrieder A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus 157 VI TableofContents Georgia Petridou Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs 185 Markus Vinzent Christians, the ‘more obvious’ representatives of the religion of Israel than the Rabbis? 215 Michael D. Swartz Rhetorical indications of the poet’s craft in the ancient synagogue 231 Part III: Filling in the Blanks Esther Eidinow In search of the ‘beggar-priest’ 255 Richard Gordon Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groupsin the Roman Empire 277 Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field 317 Part IV: ‘Written on the Body’ Anja Klöckner Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater 343 Valentino Gasparini Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis 385 Rubina Raja ‘You can leave your hat on.’ Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status 417 Index rerum 443 Acknowledgements Almost all the chapters included in this volume were delivered in one form or other at an international conference entitled ‘Beyond Duty: Interacting with re- ligiousprofessionalsandappropriatingtraditionintheImperialEra’heldinEr- furtattheAugustinerkloster,14–16January,2015.Theconferencewasorganised as part of the research project Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning ‘cults’ and ‘polisreligion’,directedbyJörgRüpkeandRubinaRajaattheMaxWeberCenter for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (University of Erfurt), and has been generouslyfunded bytheEuropean ResearchCouncil (Seventh Frameworkpro- gramme [FP7/2013], grant agreement no. 295555). We would like to express our warm thanks to the support staff of the Max Weber Center (Max-Weber-Kolleg), in particular Ursula Birtel-Koltes and Doreen Hochberg,whoseassistanceintheorganisationoftheeventwasinvaluable.We arealsogratefultofiveoftheoriginalparticipants,FrancescoCamia,Françoise Van Haeperen, Paraskevi Martzavou, Ivana and Andrej Petrovic, for their oral contributions, although their papers are not included here. The editorial board of Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten has kindlyagreedtoincludethisvolumeintheseries,whilethedeGruytereditorial teamhas,asalways,beenextremelysupportiveduringtheproductionofthevol- ume. Finally,wewouldliketothank Nannette Würbach for her assistancewith the formattingof this volume. Richard L.Gordon Georgia Petridou Jörg Rüpke Bibliographical Note Abbreviations of Greek and Latin authors, literary texts and collections (Chris- tian inclusive, where applicable) follow those of Simon Hornblower, Anthony Spawforth, and Esther Eidinow, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford 20124, or sometimes, failing that, Liddell-Scott-Jones-McKenzie, A Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford 19409, with Supplement (1996) and G.W.H. Lampe, A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford 1961, but may be expanded, if it seemed advisable, for the sakeofclarity.Thereader is assumedto haveaccess tothese works. Abbre- viationsofmainepigraphiccorporafollowFrançoisBérardetal.,eds.,Guidede l’épigraphiste:Bibliographiechoisiedesépigraphiesantiquesetmédiévales,Paris 2010,19–20;thoseofpapyrologicalcorporaaretakenfromChecklistofEditions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, web edition (Duke University Libraries). Other abbreviations used in the volume are: ANF The Ante-Nicene Fathers, edited by A. Cleveland Coxe. vols. New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., –.The most re- cent re-issue was published by Hendricks (Peabody MA ). BDB Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, edited by Francis Brown, Samuel R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, and often reprinted. BK Bibel und Kirche [Catholic periodical], . – ). CGL Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum. vols.Leipzig: B.G.Teubner, – . CPG Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum (edited by Ernst L. Leutsch Suppl. and F. Georg Schneidewin), Supplementum, edited by Kurt Latte on the basis of the ed. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, and . CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. vols.Vienna:Ver- lagderÖsterreichischenAkademiederWissenschaften,–; now Berlin: de Gruyter. LCL Loeb Classical Library. NHC NagHammadiCodices,editedbyDouglasM.Parrottetal.vols.Lei- den: Brill, –. NJPS Tanakh:TheHolyScriptures.TheNewJPSTranslationaccordingtothe TraditionalHebrewText,tr.HarryOrlinskyetal.Philadelphia:Jewish Publication Society, . NPNF Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Series , vols., Series , vols. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clarke/New York: Christian Literature Publish- ingCo.–.Themostrecentre-issuewaspublishedbyHen- dricks (Peabody MA ). OF PoetaeepiciGraeci.Testimoniaetfragmenta..Teil:OrphicorumetOr- phicissimiliumtestimoniaetfragmenta,vols.,editedbyAlbertoBer- nabé Pajares [Teubner]. Munich: Saur, –. OLD OxfordLatinDictionary,editedbyPeterG.W.Glare.Oxford:Clarendon Press, . PG Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graeca, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne. vols. Paris: ‘Imprimerie Catholique’, – (also online) PL Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne. vols. Paris: ‘Imprimerie Catholique’, – (also online). PWRE Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumwissenschaft (neue Bearbeitung),edited by Georg Wissowa et al. Munich, also Stuttgart, –. RIC Roman Imperial Coinage, edited by Harold Mattingly and Edward A.Sydenham.vols.London:SpinkandSons,–andre- printing. Editorial note Ingeneral,wehaveallowedcontributorstochoosetheirownpreferredformsof transliteration from Greek: some provide no indication of vowel-length, some havemarkedthelongvowels(indifferentways),othersareconcernedtoindicate theaccents.Wehavealsonotinterferedwithauthors’habitsregardingthetran- scription of ancient names. Inviewof the differentdisciplinarybackgrounds of thecontributors,wehavethoughtitbesttospelloutthenamesofscholarlyjour- nals for ease of reference.
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