Beyond Priesthood Religious Enterpreneurs and Innovators in the Imperial Era

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Innovation : Forms and limits Public Priests and religious innovation in Imperial Rome .......15 Lucian on Peregrinus and alexander of Abonuteichos: A Sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs...........49 Lived Religion among second -century gnostic hieratic specialists ............79 On an beyond duty: Christian clergy at oxyrhynchus ........103 2. The Author as Religious Entrepreneur Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo`s Representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides .............129 A Roadmap to Heaven : High priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus .........157 Contesting religious and Medical Expertise : The Theropeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical enterpreneurs ............185 Christians, the More Obvious representatives of the Religion of Israel than the Rabbis ...............215 Rhetorical Indications of the Poet`s Craft in the Ancient Synagogue ........231 3. Filling in the Blanks In Search of the Beggar-Priest .................255 Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious group in the Roman Empire .............277 Enforcing priesthood. the Struggle for the Monopolisation of Religious goods and the Construction of the Christian religious field .........317 4. Written on the Body Tertium genus ? Representations of Religious Practioners in the cult of Magna Mater .............343 Negotiating the body : Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius mundus and the priests of Anubis ..................385 You can leave your hat on priestly representations from palmyra : Between visual genre, religious importance and social status ...........417