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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliographical Note -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Innovation: Forms and Limits -- Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome -- Lucian on Peregrinus and Alexander of Abonuteichos: A sceptical view of two religious entrepreneurs -- Lived Religion among second-century ’Gnostic hieratic specialists’ -- On and beyond duty: Christian clergy at Oxyrhynchus (c. 250 - 400) -- Part II: The Author as Religious Entrepreneur -- Best practice. Religious reformation in Philo’s representation of the Therapeutae and Therapeutrides -- A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus -- Contesting religious and medical expertise: The therapeutai of Pergamum as religious and medical entrepreneurs -- Christians, the ’more obvious’ representatives of the religion of Israel than the Rabbis? -- Rhetorical indications of the poet’s craft in the ancient synagogue -- Part III: Filling in the Blanks -- In search of the ’beggar-priest’ -- Projects, performance and charisma: Managing small religious groups in the Roman Empire -- Enforcing priesthood. The struggle for the monopolisation of religious goods and the construction of the Christian religious field -- Part IV: ’Written on the Body’ -- Tertium genus? Representations of religious practitioners in the cult of Magna Mater -- Negotiating the body: Between religious investment and narratological strategies. Paulina, Decius Mundus and the priests of Anubis -- ’You can leave your hat on.’ Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status -- Index rerum.

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