Apocalypticism, 7–8, 19, 25–26, 31, 39, 54, 56, 87–88, 111, 120, 122, 126, 128–29, 151n15, 158n21, 187n64
Apostle (film), 3–4
Aretas IV (Nabataean monarch), 119
Athletic competition, 52–53, 56
Boasting, 53–54, 71, 176n25, 186n50
Cephas/Peter (evangelist), 46, 49, 53, 56, 58, 69, 97
Charis (grace/gift/beneficence), 11, 19, 21, 54, 88–89, 129–30, 178nn47,48
Classification, 13, 44–60, 62–63, 74–75, 135–36
Collection for Jerusalem, 19–21
Economic support, early Christian, 46–50, 135, 164n20, 166n34. See also Hospitality; Travel funding
Economy of symbolic goods, 12, 15–26, 134–35, 137–38, 141, 150n10, 151n15
Epaphroditus, 22, 30, 114, 172n40, 178n45
“Equality,” proportional, 99–100
Fraud, financial, 69–70
Gaius (member of Christian assembly in Corinth), 69–71, 75, 131, 169n15, 174nn53,54
Gift/reciprocity: constraint and freedom, 9, 11
“free gift,” 3–5,134
gift and commodity, 13, 41–45, 54–60, 135, 164n6
gift and market exchange, 1–5, 7, 10, 15, 34, 152nn25,26
gift and social relations, 3, 10, 13, 55, 59, 61–75, 134
gift, “dark side” of, 61–62
gift, definition, 8–11, 149n38
gift-debt,17, 24–25, 30–32, 34, 38, 58, 85, 102, 111
gifts, “spiritual,” 90–95,116, 119–30, 133, 139
Godas gift-giver, 4, 11, 22–23, 54, 88–90, 115, 135, 137, 139
reciprocity, human, 1–3, 5–7, 9, 15–18, 34
reciprocity, human/divine, 4, 16, 19–26, 137–41
reciprocity, primate, 7–8
Glory (divine luminescence), 23, 128, 136. See also Honor/prestige
Glossolalia, 90, 94–95, 180nn72, 73
Graces, dance of the, 16–17, 21, 54, 72, 75, 156n8, 174n56
Gratitude, 10–11, 17, 28, 34, 138, 158n20
Harpocras (physician), 82
Harvest (gifting metaphor), 17, 20–21
Heterarchy, 14, 105–13, 131–33, 136–37
Hierarchy, sociopolitical, 36–38, 90–103, 131–33, 161n40
Honor/prestige, 12, 14, 18, 29–30, 35, 54, 59, 83, 98, 116, 119–21, 132–33, 136
Hospitality, 46–48, 55, 62–65, 71–72, 93, 101, 109, 135, 180n69
Interdisciplinary study, 5–8, 139–41
Internal/external dichotomy, 126–31
Isis (goddess), 38, 179n55, 187n61
Iulia Agrippina (mother of Nero), 32
James (brother of Jesus), 53, 56, 58, 69, 97
Jesus of Nazareth: crucifixion and resurrection, 3–4, 19, 31, 128–29, 137
John (evangelist), 97
Lucius (character in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses), 38
Magic, 38
Marx, Karl, 42
Maturus, Arrianus (equestrian), 84–86
Maximus, Vibius (prefect), 84–86
Methods in the study of religion, 5–6
Moses (lawgiver), 49–50
Mysteries and mystery initiations, 122, 125–26, 187nn61, 62
Nero (emperor), 32, 86, 159n29
Nerva (emperor), 82–83
Onesimus (slave), 23–25, 30–32, 110
Oratory, 116, 120–21, 124, 126, 129
Patronage, 34, 36–39, 46–47, 73, 77, 80–85, 89, 108–15, 131–32, 161n41, 163n65, 184n31
Paul of Tarsus: apostle, 49, 88–93, 111–12
craftsman, 33, 47, 62, 116, 160n32
economiclocation, 33, 109, 117–18
evangelist, 5
lacking prestige, 116–19, 127, 130–31, 160n32
mediator of gifts from God, 11, 38–39, 45–46, 111–12, 114–15, 135, 140
Philemon (member of early Christian assembly in Colossae), 23–25, 30–32, 36–40, 109–12
Philippi, gifts to Paul from, 22–23, 67–68, 114–15
Phoebe (member of early Christian assembly in Cenchreae), 47, 70, 112–13
Pliny the Younger, 6, 13, 81–85
Potlatch, 76–77
Priest, 50–51
Priscilla and Aquila (craftspeople), 47, 166n32
Religion (analytic category), 8, 11–12, 148n30, 149n41
Romanus, Voconius (equestrian), 82–84
Scipio, Publius (Roman general), 62, 169n9
Seneca the Younger, 3, 6, 12, 16–17, 27–35, 40
positional and accorded status, 13, 78–80, 136–37
status inconsistency, 14, 104–5, 131–33, 137
status inversion, 14, 36, 39, 109–33
Teacher, 95
Trajan (emperor), 13, 81–84, 89, 93