• Dialogical Differences: (De-)Judaizing Jesus' Circumcision

    Author(s):
    Andrew Jacobs (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Group(s):
    Ancient Jew Review, Late Antiquity
    Subject(s):
    History, Ancient, Religion, History
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Circumcision, Early Christianity, Late antiquity, Ancient history, Biblical studies, History of religions, Religious studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6XW5C
    Abstract:
    This essay seeks to rethink the inscription of difference in early Christianity by focusing on the role of the circumcision of Jesus—a paradigmatically Jewish mark on the Christian savior’s body—in early Christian “dialogue”-texts (both external dialogues, such as Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho, as well as erotapokriseis-texts, here framed as internal dialogues). When we examine how difference is both inscribed and deferred in these texts, as it is on Christ’s body, we can realize how difference is never really “other” but always retained within the chorus of Christian cultural identity, a productive heteroglossia that recalls the dominant strategies of Roman imperial power.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    doi.org/10.1353/earl.2007.0051
    Publisher:
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    Pub. Date:
    2007-9-16
    Journal:
    Journal of Early Christian Studies
    Volume:
    15
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    291 - 335
    ISSN:
    1086-3184
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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