Table Of ContentBeyond Priesthood
Religionsgeschichtliche
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Beyond Priesthood
Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators
in the Roman Empire
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Richard L. Gordon, Georgia Petridou, and Jörg Rüpke
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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
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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.
