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@article{2351840, author = {Papoušek, Dalibor and Pospíšil, Zdeněk}, article_location = {Riverside}, article_number = {1}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.21237/C7clio14038636}, keywords = {Spreading dynamics of early Christianity; Lukan and Marcionite Christianities; Jewish networks; ancient Mediterranean cities; diffusion on a network; mathematical modeling; computer simulation}, language = {eng}, issn = {2373-7530}, journal = {Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution}, title = {Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity : A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities}, url = {https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29z4c9n6}, volume = {14}, year = {2023} }
TY - JOUR ID - 2351840 AU - Papoušek, Dalibor - Pospíšil, Zdeněk PY - 2023 TI - Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity : A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities JF - Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 53-74 EP - 53-74 PB - eScholarship Publishing, University of California SN - 23737530 KW - Spreading dynamics of early Christianity KW - Lukan and Marcionite Christianities KW - Jewish networks KW - ancient Mediterranean cities KW - diffusion on a network KW - mathematical modeling KW - computer simulation UR - https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29z4c9n6 N2 - The authors reconsider the dynamics of Jewish and non-Jewish networks in the spread of early Christianity. For mathematical modeling of complex processes like these, they apply Lukan and Marcionite Christianities as strictly coded test cases. Despite weak historical evidence, it is obvious that these two movements, which are newly assumed to be contemporaneous, maintained different attitudes to the Jewish background of Christianity and so they probably used Jewish and non-Jewish networks in a different way. While Lukan Christianity, which remained open to the Jewish tradition, may still have utilized Jewish Mediterranean networks, Marcionite Christianity, which rejected the Jewish heritage, probably ignored them. On this reduced historical basis, the authors constructed a mathematical model of temporal spreading on the network which was common for both of the hypothesized types of Christianity. The nodes of this network, representing big cities of the ancient Mediterranean, contain only two different kinds of diffusivity – Jewish and non-Jewish. At the level of the common network which remains stable, the model examines the importance of global centers for the spreading dynamics of early Christianity. On the other hand, the employment of the Jewish sub-network is manipulated over time according to the regular alteration of early Christian generations. This way, the necessity of the Jewish sub-network for the spread of early Christianity is tested. ER -
PAPOUŠEK, Dalibor and Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL. Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity : A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities. \textit{Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution}. Riverside: eScholarship Publishing, University of California, 2023, vol.~14, No~1, p.~53-74. ISSN~2373-7530. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.21237/C7clio14038636.
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