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Christians in Caesar's Household:

The Emperors' Slaves in the Makings of Christianity
  • ISBN-13: 9780271082332
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Michael Flexsenhar III
  • Price: AUD $195.00
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2019
  • Format: Hardback 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Archaeology [HD]
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Examines the role of the Roman emperors’ slaves in the rise of Christianity, and how imperial slaves were essential to early Christians’ self-conception as a distinct people in the Mediterranean.


List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Paul, the Philippians, and Caesar’s Household (Phil 4:22)

2 Paul, Peter, and Nero’s Slaves: Martyrdoms and Apostolic Acts

3 Rome’s Imperial Household in Christian Polemic and Apologetic

4 Christian Piety and a Martyred Slave of Caesar

5 Material Evidence for a Christian Imperial Freedman

6 Christians and Imperial Personnel in Rome’s Catacombs

Conclusion: The Memory of Imperial Slavery in Early Christianity

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliography

Index



Christians in Caesar’s Household weaves a truly reformative story about Christian imperial freedpersons and thus about imperial acceptance of Christianity in the fourth century. Flexsenhar turns a critical lens on the usual triumphalist narrative, using both texts and archaeology to fundamentally shift our historical understanding to account for the brutality and messiness of slavery’s legacy in the Christian ascendancy.”

—Katherine A. Shaner, author of Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity

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