This response to the essays collected here considers questions of torture, slavery, and resistance. Building on the fruitful extension of earlier work on ancient Greek practices of the basanos, or âtouchstone,â and on slavery in the ancient world and in antebellum America, the response takes account of the valuable and thought-provoking use of duBoisâ work in the new contexts of early Christianity. The response also points to her recent work on the relationship of torture, crucifixion, slavery, forms of resistance, and the persistence, in new forms, of what Hellenists tend to call âpolytheismâ.â©
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âMichel Foucault, âThe Body of the Condemned,â Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (trans. Alan Sheridan; New York: Vintage, 1979), p. 3; originally published as Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1975). The resemblance to scenes of martyrdom is unavoidable.
âLisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015).
âOrlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1982).
âDouglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (New York: Doubleday, 2008). I discuss the difficulties of teaching the history of slavery, ancient and modern, in âTeaching the Uncomfortable Subject of Slavery,â in N. Rabinowitz and F. McHardy (eds.), From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 187-98.
âPage duBois, A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014). See also my chapter âJesus and Other Jews,â in eadem, Out of Athens: New Ancient Greeks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 130-56.
âPaula Fredriksen, âMandatory Retirement: Ideas in the Study of Christian Origins Whose Time Has Come to Go,â in SR 35 (2006), pp. 231-46 (241-42).
âRobert Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
âRobert Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 387.
âRobert C. Dentan, âThe Story of the New Revised Standard Edition,â in The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 11 (1990), pp. 211-23 (221-22).
âJ. Albert Harrill, Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009), p. 3.
âThomas F. Mathews, The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, rev. edn, 1999).
âIbid., p. 45.
âHenk S. Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (RGRW, 173; Boston: Brill, 2011), p. 66.
âHenk S. Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (RGRW, 173; Boston: Brill, 2011), pp. 66-67.
âPeter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, rev. edn, 2014).
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This response to the essays collected here considers questions of torture, slavery, and resistance. Building on the fruitful extension of earlier work on ancient Greek practices of the basanos, or âtouchstone,â and on slavery in the ancient world and in antebellum America, the response takes account of the valuable and thought-provoking use of duBoisâ work in the new contexts of early Christianity. The response also points to her recent work on the relationship of torture, crucifixion, slavery, forms of resistance, and the persistence, in new forms, of what Hellenists tend to call âpolytheismâ.â©
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