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Original Articles

Does the gospel of Luke suggest a Christian‐Judaic form of leisure in the Graeco‐Roman world?

Pages 11-30 | Published online: 21 Nov 2010
 

Abstract

Traditionally in leisure studies, the “origin” of leisure begins with the Greek concept of schole. However, the Graeco‐Roman world was a vibrant, diverse, and commercial socio‐political world. The focus on only one Greek concept of leisure to the exclusion of competing Greek ideas and other cultures obscures the multiplicity and contested forms of leisure in the Graeco‐Roman world. The canonical gospels of the Christian‐Judaic heritage provided glimpses and rhetorical structures that situated the “historical” Jesus within a specific human world that challenged or modified leisure practices of that era. Blending scholarship from histories and theories of leisures (Fox & Klaiber, 2006), archaeological, anthropological, and historical understandings of the Graeco‐Roman world, and literary interpretations of the canonical gospels, I argue that the Gospel of Luke is an alternative format for a Christian‐Judaic leisure.

Résumé

Les études sur l'origine du concept de loisirs typique commencent d'habitude avec le concept grec de la schole. Cependant, le monde gréco‐romain était un monde socio‐politique vibrant, divers, et commercial. La convergence sur un concept grec des loisirs à l'exclusion des idées grecques de concurrence et autres cultures, ignore la multiplicité et les formes contestées de loisirs dans le monde gréco‐romain. Les évangiles canoniques nous donnent des aperçus fournis par l'héritage Chrétien‐Judaïque et des structures rhétoriques qui contestent et modifient ces pratiques de loisirs de cette ère. Dans cet article, je présent une perspective que l'évangile de Luc est un format alternatif pour les loisirs Chrétien‐Judaïques, et que cette approche ressemble plutôt a le mélange des histoires et des théories de loisirs (Fox & Klaiber, 2006), et l'arrangement archéologique, anthropologique et historique du monde gréco‐romain, et l'interprétation littérale des évangiles canoniques.

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