Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Individuals and Personhood
5. Kultgründungen durch Individuen im klassischen Griechenland 11
6. ‘… Hidden with Christ in God’ (Colossians 3:3): Modes of Personhood in Deutero-Pauline Tradition 43
7. Representative and Charismatic Individuality
8. Representative Individuality in Iamblichus’ De vita pythagorica 71
9. Sosipatra and the Theurgic Life: Eunapius Vitae Sophistorum 6.6.5 – 6.9.24 99
10. Gregory Taught, Gregory Written: The effacement and definition of individualization in the Address to Origen and the Life of Gregory the Wonderworker 119
11. The Father of Man: Abraham as the rabbinic Jesus 145
12. Reading and Writing
13. Reading Practices in Early Christianity and the Individualisation Process 175
14. Reading and Religion in Rome 193
15. „Einer jeden Gottheit ihren eigenen Kult“: Verbriefte Individualreligion am Clitumnus fons (Plinius epist. 8,8) 209
16. Four Letter-writers: Religion in Pliny, Trajan, Libanius, and Julian 247
17. Index 261