Being Christian in Late Antiquity

What do we mean when we talk about being Christian in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism Christianity and Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question in honor of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian Clark. After an introduction to the volume's dedicatee and themes by Averil Cameron the papers in Section I Being Christian through Reading Writing and Hearing analyze the roles that literary genre writing reading hearing and the literature of the past played in the formation of what it meant to be Christian. The essays in Section II move on to explore how late antique Christians sought to create maintain and represent Christian communities: communities that were both textually created and enacted in living realities. Finally in Section III The Particularities of Being Christian the contributions examine what it was to be Christian from a number of different ways of representing oneself each of which raises questions about certain kinds of particularities for example gender location education and culture.