The Social World of Formative Christianity and Judaism
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
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The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-11-21
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 900452486X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume honors L. Michael White, whose work has been influential in exploring the “social worlds” of ancient Jews and Christians. Fifteen original essays highlight his scholarly contributions while also signaling new directions in the study of ancient Mediterranean religions.
The Early Christian World
Author: Philip F. Esler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 1369
ISBN-13: 1134549199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Christian World presents an exhaustive, erudite and lavishly illustrated treatment of how the small movement which formed around Jesus in Galilee became the pre-eminent religion of the ancient world. The work begins by firmly situating early Christianity within its Mediterranean social, political and religious contexts, before charting the history of the first Christian centuries. The creation and perpetuation of Christian communities through various means, including mission and monasticism, is explored, as is the everyday experience of early Christians, through discussion of gender and sexuality, religious practice, communication and social structures. The intellectual (particularly theological) and artistic heritage of the period is fully considered, and a vivid picture painted of the internal and external challenges faced by early Christianity. The book concludes with profiles of the most notable figures of the age. Comprehensive and accessible, Early Christian World provides up-to-date coverage of the most important topics in the study of early Christianity, together with an invaluable collection of visual material. It will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying this period
Didache and Judaism
Author: Marcello Del Verme
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780567025319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakes a new look at the Jewishness of the Christian Didache.
Understanding the Social World of the New Testament
Author: Dietmar Neufeld
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-10-29
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1135263000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New Testament is a book of great significance in Western culture yet is often inaccessible to students because the modern world differs so significantly from the ancient Mediterranean one in which it was written. It is imperative to develop a cross-cultural understanding of the values of the ancient Mediterranean society from which the New Testament arose in order to fully appreciate the documents and the communities that they represent. Dietmar Neufeld and Richard E. DeMaris bring together biblical scholars with expertise in the social sciences to develop interpretative models for understanding such values as collectivism, kinship, memory, ethnicity, and honour, and to demonstrate how to apply these models to the New Testament texts. Kinship is illuminated by analysis of the Holy Family as well as to early Christian organisations; gender through a study of Paul’s view of women; and landscape and spatiality through a discussion of Jesus of Nazareth. This book is the ideal companion to study of the New Testament.
Challenges to Biblical Interpretation
Author: Heikki Räisänen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9789004121720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book questions the authenticity of some sayings and stories counted to the "bedrock" of the Jesus tradition, analyses the ambiguous relationship of early Christians to their Jewish heritage and offers a fresh discussion of fundamental questions of principle. It offers a selection of the author's seminal recent articles, focusing on Jesus, Paul, and questions of principle. The author reflects on the use of New Testament in responsible modern theology, defending classical historical criticism against recent challenges.
Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity
Author: Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781451413267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn three fascinating probes of early Christianity - examining baptism, speaking in tongues, and meals in common - Johnson illustrates how a more wholistic approach opens up the world of healings and religious power, of ecstasy and spire - in short, the religious experience of real persons. Early Christian texts, he finds, reflect lives caught up in and defined by a power not in their control but engendered instead by the crucified and raised Messiah Jesus.
Common Judaism
Author: Wayne O. McCready
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1451403445
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* State-of-the-art essays by renowned scholars * The standard reference work in the field of early Judaism
Paul and the Politics of Difference
Author: Jae Won Lee
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0227904028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul lies at the core of the constant debate about the opposition between Christianity and Judaism both in biblical interpretation and public discourse. The so-called new perspective on Paul has not offered a significant break from the formidable paradigm of Christian universalism versus Jewish particularism in Pauline scholarship. This book liberates Paul from the Western logic of identity and its dominant understanding of difference. Drawing attention to the currency of discourses on difference in contemporary theories as well as in biblical studies, the author critically examines the hermeneutical relevance of a contextual and relational understanding of difference. He applies it to interpret the dynamics of Jew-Gentile difference reflected particularly in meal practices (Gal 2:1-21 and Rom 14:1-15:13) of early Christian communities. 'Paul and the Politics of Difference' argues that by deconstructing the hierarchy of social relations underlying the Jew-Gentile difference in different community situations, Paul promotes a politics of difference. This affirms a preferential option for the socially 'weak' - solidarity with the weak. Paul's politics of difference is invoked as the potential for liberation in a vision of egalitarian justice in the face of contemporary globalism's proliferation of difference.
Introducing Romans
Author: Richard N. Longenecker
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-03-25
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1467434728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul’s Letter to the Romans has proven to be a particular challenge for commentators, with its many highly significant interpretive issues often leading to tortuous convolutions and even “dead ends” in their understanding of the letter. Here, Richard N. Longenecker takes a comprehensive look at the complex backdrop of Paul’s letter and carefully unpacks a number of critical issues, including: * Authorship, integrity, occasion, date, addressees, and purpose * Important recent interpretive approaches * Greco-Roman oral, rhetorical, and epistolary conventions * Jewish and Jewish Christian thematic and rhetorical features * The establishing of the letter’s Greek text * The letter’s main focus, structure, and argument
