How Long to Read Aliens and Sojourners

How Long Does it Take to Read Aliens and Sojourners?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Aliens and Sojourners by Benjamin H. Dunning

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larger Roman world as the new movement grew and struggled to make sense of its own boundaries? Aliens and Sojourners argues that the claim to alien status is not a transparent one. Instead, Benjamin Dunning contends, it shaped a rich, pervasive, variegated discourse of identity in early Christianity. Resident aliens and foreigners had long occupied a conflicted space of both repulsion and desire in ancient thinking. Dunning demonstrates how Christians and others in antiquity capitalized on this tension, refiguring the resident alien as being of a compelling doubleness, simultaneously marginal and potent. Early Christians, he argues, used this refiguration to render Christian identity legible, distinct, and even desirable among the vast range of social and religious identities and practices that proliferated in the ancient Mediterranean. Through close readings of ancient Christian texts such as Hebrews, 1 Peter, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the Epistle to Diognetus, Dunning examines the markedly different ways that Christians used the language of their own marginality, articulating a range of options for what it means to be Christian in relation to the Roman social order. His conclusions have implications not only for the study of late antiquity but also for understanding the rhetorics of religious alienation more broadly, both in the ancient world and today.

How long is Aliens and Sojourners?

Aliens and Sojourners by Benjamin H. Dunning is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Aliens and Sojourners Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Aliens and Sojourners aloud.

What Reading Level is Aliens and Sojourners?

Aliens and Sojourners is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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