Read and Download eBook Full
Author:
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.
Author: Natalie B. Dohrmann
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0812245334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume revisits issues of empire from the perspective of Jews, Christians, and other Romans in the third to sixth centuries. Through case studies, the contributors bring Jewish perspectives to bear on longstanding debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity.
Author: Paula Fredriksen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0300240740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”—they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.
Author: William Varner
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work provides the texts and translations of three ancient Jewish-Christian dialogues: The Dialogue of Athanasius and Zacchaeus (Greek, 4th c.); The Dialogue of Simon and Theophilus (Latin, 5th c.); and The Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila (Greek, 6th c.). This is the first published translation of each of these texts.
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-09-19
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 900470440X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second century is a crucial period for the formation of both Judaism and Christianity, but remains in important ways terra incognita. This volume brings together specialists in Jewish studies and Christian studies, two closely related disciplines that nonetheless continue to operate in relative isolation. Taking into consideration the full panoply of Jewish and Christian identities, the volume proposes fresh ways to map the interrelated histories of Jews and Christians. Contributions by leading scholars offer new insights into this period informed by a rich variety of perspectives, including theoretical, literary, thematic and material approaches.
Author: Philip F. Esler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1134833806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Alan E. Bernstein
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1501712489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of punishment after death—whereby the souls of the wicked are consigned to Hell (Gehenna, Gehinnom, or Jahannam)—emerged out of beliefs found across the Mediterranean, from ancient Egypt to Zoroastrian Persia, and became fundamental to the Abrahamic religions. Once Hell achieved doctrinal expression in the New Testament, the Talmud, and the Qur'an, thinkers began to question Hell’s eternity, and to consider possible alternatives—hell’s rivals. Some imagined outright escape, others periodic but temporary relief within the torments. One option, including Purgatory and, in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Middle State, was to consider the punishments to be temporary and purifying. Despite these moral and theological hesitations, the idea of Hell has remained a historical and theological force until the present.In Hell and Its Rivals, Alan E. Bernstein examines an array of sources from within and beyond the three Abrahamic faiths—including theology, chronicles, legal charters, edifying tales, and narratives of near-death experiences—to analyze the origins and evolution of belief in Hell. Key social institutions, including slavery, capital punishment, and monarchy, also affected the afterlife beliefs of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Reflection on hell encouraged a stigmatization of "the other" that in turn emphasized the differences between these religions. Yet, despite these rivalries, each community proclaimed eternal punishment and answered related challenges to it in similar terms. For all that divided them, they agreed on the need for—and fact of—Hell.
Author: Robert McQueen Grant
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780664227722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis masterful study of the early centuries of Christianity vividly brings to life the religious, political, and cultural developments through which the faith that began as a sect within Judaism became finally the religion of the Roman empire. First published in 1970, Grant's classic is enhanced with a new foreward by Margaret M. Mitchell, which assesses its importance and puts the reader in touch with the advances of current research.
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1847063144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading biblical scholar Bart Ehrman reveals the many challenging and even disturbing early variations of our cherished biblical stories.
Author: Philip Esler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1134792999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing foreign social context of first century Palestine and the Greco-Roman East, in which the Christian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament documents were written. It demonstrates that a sophisticated analysis of the context is essential in order to understand the original meaning of the texts. The contributors examine social themes such as early Christian group formation, the centrality of kinship and honour and the economic setting. They offer a wealth of novel and socially realistic interpretations which make sense of the texts. At the same time, Modelling Early Christianity contains significant new ideas on the relationship between social-scientific and literary-critical analysis, the theoretical justification for model-use and the way these new approaches can fertilise contemporary Christian theology.
