Magnus Zetterholm – författare

Denna introduktion till den tidiga Jesusrörelsen lämpar sig väl för teologistudenter, präster, pastorer, journalister, kulturarbetare och den intresserade allmänheten. Här presenteras framväxten av det fenomen som började som en obetydlig inom-judisk förnyelserörelse, men som senare utvecklades till den världsreligion som kanske mer än något annat har präglat den västerländska civilisationen. Boken är unik i det att den inte i första hand presenterar de nytestamentliga texterna, utan en religiös rörelse den judiska Jesusrörelsen så som den presenteras i texterna. Fokus ligger således på berättelserna och det historiska skeendet. I samband med denna historiska presentation introduceras också några vetenskapliga problem: Hur kan man veta något om den historiske Jesus? Lämnade Paulus verkligen judendomen? Vilka är källorna till Nya testamentets texter? Vad betyder det att Jesus skärper lagens bud? Dessa frågor behandlas med utgångspunkt i de senaste forskningsrönen. Läsaren får sammantaget en initierad introduktion till den grekisk-romerska världen och andra templets judendom, samt en inblick i den tidiga Jesusrörelsens historia från Jesus, aposteln Paulus och perioden därefter fram till början av det andra århundradet.

Magnus Zetterholm uses theoretical insights from the social sciences to deal with the complex issues raised by the parting of Judaism and Christianity, and the accompanying rise of Christian anti-Semitism in ancient Antioch.Unlike previous attempts to solve this problem have focused mainly on ideology, Zetterholm's excellent study emphasizes the interplay between sociological and ideological elements.For students of religious studies, classical studies, history and social science, this will give leverage and knowledge in the pursuit of their course studies.

Magnus Zetterholm uses theoretical insights from the social sciences to deal with the complex issues raised by the parting of Judaism and Christianity, and the accompanying rise of Christian anti-Semitism in ancient Antioch.Unlike previous attempts to solve this problem have focused mainly on ideology, Zetterholm's excellent study emphasizes the interplay between sociological and ideological elements.For students of religious studies, classical studies, history and social science, this will give leverage and knowledge in the pursuit of their course studies.

Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the forming of group identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities evolved into non-Jewish Christian identities, others into a rabbinic Jewish identity, while yet others remained somewhere in between. The contributors to this volume trace these developments in archaeological remains as well as in texts from the Qumran movement, the New Testament and the reception of Paul’s writings, rabbinic literature, and apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings, such as the Book of Dreams and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The long timespan covered in the volume together with the combined expertise of scholars from various fields make this book a unique contribution to research on group identity, Jewish and Christian identity formation, the Partings-of-the-ways between Judaism and Christianity, and interactions between Jews and Christians.