Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities

308 Pages·2016·2.66 MB·English

by  Carlin A. Barton

Imagine No Religion
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Imagine No Religion
How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities
Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin
Fordham University Press
New York 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data
Names: Barton, Carlin A., 1948– author.
Title: Imagine no religion : how modern abstractions hide ancient realities /
Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2016. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifi ers: LCCN 2016013979| ISBN 9780823271191 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9780823271207 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Religion.
Classifi cation: LCC BL48 .B3665 2016 | DDC 200— dc23
LC reco rd available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2016013979
Printed in the United States of Ameri ca
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First edition
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to Carole and Fred, Karen and Norman
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con ten ts
A Note on Authorship ix
Introduction: What You Can See When You Stop Looking
for What I sn’t There 1
Religio
Part I. Mapping the Word
1. Religio without “Religion” 15
2. The Ciceronian Turn 39
Part II. Case Study: Tertullian
3. Preface to Tertullian 55
4. Segregated by a Perfect Fear 60
5. Segregated by a Perfect Fear. The Terrible War Band of the
Anti- Emperor: The Coniuratio and the Sacramentum 74
6. Governed by a Perfect Fear 96
7. Precarious Integration. Managing the Fears of the Romans:
Tertullian on Tenterhooks 105
Thrēskeia
Part I. Mapping the Word
8. Imagine No Thrēskeia: The Task of the Untranslator 123
9. The Thrēskeia of the Judaeans: Josephus and the New Testament 135
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viii Contents
Part II. Case Study: Josephus
10. Josephus without Judaism: Nomos, Eusebeia, Thrēskeia 155
11. A Jewish Actor in the Audience: Josephan Doublespeak 178
12. A Glance at the Future: Thrēskeia and the Lit er a ture of Apolo getic,
First to Third Centuries c.e. 200
Conclusion: What You Find When You Stop Looking
for What I sn’t There 211
Acknowle dgments 215
Notes 217
Bibliography 291
Index of Ancient Texts 303
General Index 305
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