A Family Affair: Marriage, Class, and Ethics in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles

Andrew Jacobs

doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.1999.0018

A Family Affair: Marriage, Class, and Ethics in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles

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):

Asceticism, Family History, Gender studies, Late antiquity, Apocryphal Acts, Ancient history, History of religions, Religious studies

Permanent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6P90F

Abstract:

In this essay I juxtapose a dominant culture discourse of the family, one which aims to construct an ethical center out of the marital union, with a deconstructive effort on the part of certain early Christian groups, in order to suggest that this particular Christian "antifamilial" rhetoric associated its family ethics with issues of class and social status. The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles oppose the morally inferior upper-class family, oriented around conjugal concordia, with a status-negating Christian "family" organized around apostolic potestas.

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Pub. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.1999.0018

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date:

2007-2-7

Journal:

Journal of Early Christian Studies

Volume:

7

Issue:

1

Page Range:

105 - 138

ISSN:

1086-3184

Status:

Published

Last Updated:

7 years ago

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