Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity
Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-07

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9004680829

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The essays in the present volume celebrate the work of Margaret M. Mitchell (University of Chicago) by engaging, extending, and challenging her ground-breaking research in three areas: (1) the letters of Paul the Apostle, both authentic and pseudepigraphic; (2) the emergence and rapid development of early Christian literary culture over the first few centuries of the cult’s existence; and (3) Late Antique interpretive practices and perspectives, particularly among patristic readers of the scriptures.

Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity
Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity

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Publisher: Novum Testamentum, Supplements

Published: 2023-06-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004523845

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This volume celebrates Prof. Margaret M. Mitchell of the University of Chicago with incisive studies on the Apostle Paul, early Christian literary culture, and ancient interpretive practices and perspectives written by a prestigious group of scholars

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences

Author: Susanne Luther

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-10-04

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 3110717484

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Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.

Galatians
Galatians

Author: Christopher M. Tuckett

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-10-17

Total Pages: 827

ISBN-13: 0567716406

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For over one hundred years the International Critical Commentary has had a special place amongst works on the Bible. This new volume on Galatians brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this New Testament book. Tuckett incorporates new evidence available in the field and applies new methods of studies. No uniform theological or critical approach to the text is taken.

A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity

Author: A. J. Berkovitz

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1512824194

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The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one's last words. And within a scriptural universe, no work exerted more force than the Psalter, the most cherished text among all the books of the Hebrew Bible. A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity clarifies the world of late ancient Judaism through the versatile and powerful lens of the Psalter. It asks a simple set of questions: Where did late ancient Jews encounter the Psalms? How did they engage with the work? And what meanings did they produce? A. J. Berkovitz answers these queries by reconstructing and contextualizing a diverse set of religious practices performed with and on the Psalter, such as handling a physical copy, reading from it, interpreting it exegetically, singing it as liturgy, invoking it as magic and reciting it as an act of piety. His book draws from and contributes to the fields of ancient Judaism, biblical reception, book history and the history of reading.

Voice, Text, Hypertext
Voice, Text, Hypertext

Author: Raimonda Modiano

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 0295806931

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Voice, Text, Hypertext illustrates brilliantly why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically in recent years. For the distinguished authors of these essays, a “text” is more than a document or material object. It is a cultural event, a matrix of decisions, an intricate cultural practice that may focus on religious traditions, modern “underground” literary movements, poetic invention, or the irreducible complexity of cultural politics. Drawing from classical Roman and Indian to modern European traditions, the volume makes clear that to study a text is to study a culture. It also demonstrates the essential importance of heightened textual awareness for contemporary cultural studies and critical theory—and, indeed, for any discipline that studies human culture.

Separating Abram and Lot
Separating Abram and Lot

Author: Dan Rickett

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 900441388X

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In Separating Abram and Lot: The Narrative Role and Early Reception of Genesis 13, Dan Rickett presents a fresh analysis of two of Genesis’ most important characters. Many have understood Lot as Abram’s potential heir and as an ethical contrast to him. Here, Rickett explores whether these readings best reflect the focus of the story. In particular, he considers the origin of these readings and how a study of the early Jewish and Christian reception of Genesis 13 might help identify that origin. In turn, due attention is given to the overall purpose of Genesis 13, as well as how Lot and his function in the text should be understood.

Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts
Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts

Author: Mark Vessey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13:

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By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, this volume delineates a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history. The essays consider how one should account for the abiding formativeness of Latin Christian writing of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, and what demands such writing lay on a modern history of literature.

Antiquity in Antiquity
Antiquity in Antiquity

Author: Gregg Gardner

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9783161494116

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Leading scholars in early Christianity, Judaic studies, classics, history and archaeology explore the ways that memories were retrieved, reconstituted and put to use by Jews, Christians and their pagan neighbours in late antiquity, from the third century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E.