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Honouring Age
The Social Dynamics of Age Structure in 1 Timothy
Inbunden, 2023
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We all age. But how we understand age and aging depends on cultural context. The early followers of Jesus experienced growing up and growing old in a world where more than a third of children never reached adulthood, married women could expect to become widows, and, above all, elders were to be …
Honouring Age
The Social Dynamics of Age Structure in 1 Timothy
Häftad, 2023
440 kr
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We all age. But how we understand age and aging depends on cultural context. The early followers of Jesus experienced growing up and growing old in a world where more than a third of children never reached adulthood, married women could expect to become widows, and, above all, elders were to be …
Authentic Paul
Critical Scholarship and the Making of a Christian Book
Inbunden, 2025
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Written in the first century and compiled in the New Testament, the letters of the Apostle Paul have served as a reservoir of divine authority for Christians. Yet from the time of their writing, experts have claimed that some letters were altered or forged. Even after centuries, and generations of …
Religious Inventions
Ancient Mediterranean Practice and the Study of Religion
Av William Arnal, Erin K. Vearncombe
Inbunden, 2025
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Religion is a modern invention, a category used to describe and study certain kinds of human behaviour. Yet when it comes to the ancient world and its texts – including those that comprise the Jewish and Christian Bibles – it can be easy to forget that they did not fall from the sky as simple …
Religious Inventions
Ancient Mediterranean Practice and the Study of Religion
Av William Arnal, Erin K. Vearncombe
Häftad, 2025
467 kr
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Religion is a modern invention, a category used to describe and study certain kinds of human behaviour. Yet when it comes to the ancient world and its texts – including those that comprise the Jewish and Christian Bibles – it can be easy to forget that they did not fall from the sky as simple …
Christian Moses
Vision, Authority, and the Limits of Humanity in the New Testament and Early Christianity
Häftad, 2019
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Two verses about Moses in the Bible have been the subject of debate since the first century. In Exodus 33:20, God tells Moses that no one can see God and live, but Numbers 12:8 says that Moses sees the form of the Lord. How does one reconcile these two opposing statements? Did Moses see God, and …
Whose Historical Jesus?
Av William E. Arnal, Michel Desjardins
Häftad, 1997
458 kr
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The figure of Jesus has fascinated Western civilization for centuries. As the year 2000 approaches, eliciting connections with Jesus' birth and return, excitement grows - as does the number of studies about Jesus. Cutting through this mass of material, Whose Historical Jesus? provides a collection …
Parables of War
Reading John's Jewish Apocalypse
Häftad, 2001
528 kr
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What makes the Book of Revelation so hard to understand? How does the Book of Revelation fit into Judaism and the beginning of Christianity? John W. Marshall proposes a radical reinterpretation of the Book of Revelation of John, viewing it as a document of the Jewish diaspora during the Judean War. …
Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna
Häftad, 2005
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This volume, one in a series of books examining religious rivalries, focuses in detail on the religious dimension of life in two particular Roman cities: Sardis and Smyrna. The essays explore the relationships and rivalries among Jews, Christians, and various Greco-Roman religious groups from the …
Common Written Greek Source for Mark and Thomas
Av John Horman
Inbunden, 2011
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This book uncovers an early collection of sayings, called N, that are ascribed to Jesus and are similar to those found in the Gospel of Thomas and in Q, a document believed to be a common source, with Mark, for Matthew and Luke. In the process, the book sheds light on the literary methods of Mark …
Mark's Other Gospel
Rethinking Morton Smith's Controversial Discovery
Häftad, 2020
472 kr
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Did the evangelist Mark write two versions of his gospel? According to a letter ascribed to Clement of Alexandria, Mark created a second, more spiritual edition of his gospel for theologically advanced Christians in Alexandria. Clement's letter contains two excerpts from this lost gospel, including …
Recovering an Undomesticated Apostle
Essays on the Legacy of Paul
Av Christopher B. Zeichmann, John A. Egger
Inbunden, 2023
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Paul the apostle is usually imagined as a man of prestige and power – comfortably conversing with philosophers, seeking an audience with the emperor, and composing compelling letters for Christians throughout the Mediterranean. Yet this portrait of a safe and conventional figure at the origins of …
Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity
Paul and the Gospels
Av Peter Richardson, David Granskou
Häftad, 1986
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The period since the close of World War II has been agonizingly introspective - not least because of the pain of reassessing Christianity's attitude to Judaism. The early Christian materials have often been examined to assess their role in the long-standing negative attitude of Christians to Jews. …
Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity
Separation and Polemic
Häftad, 1986
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The second volume in this two-volume work studying the initial developments of anti-Judaism within the church examines the evolution of the Christian faith in its social context as revealed by evidence such as early patristic and rabbinic writings and archaeological findings.
Law in Religious Communities in the Roman Period
The Debate Over Torah and Nomos in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity
Av Peter Richardson, Stephen Westerholm m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
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The role and function of law in religious communities in the Roman period - especially in Judaism - has been a key issue among scholars in recent years. This thought-provoking work is the first full-scale attempt to write a historical assessment of the scholarly debate concerning this question, …
Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context
Häftad, 1994
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Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. Study and mastery of the Talmud marked one as a rabbi, a ""master."" This book examines the …
Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity
Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson
Av Stephen G. Wilson, Michel Desjardins
Inbunden, 2000
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Can archaeological remains be made to ""speak"" when brought into conjunction with texts? Can written remains, on stone or papyrus, shed light on the parables of Jesus, or on the Jewish view of afterlife? What are the limits to the use of artifactual data, and when is the value overstated? Text and …
Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild
A Socio-Rhetorical Approach
Häftad, 2002
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Where do the origins of the rabbinic movement lie, and how might evidence from the early rabbinic literature be made to reveal those origins? In order to shed light on the early social formation of the rabbinic guild of masters, Lightstone brings the theoretical and methodological insights of …
Playing a Jewish Game
Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE
Inbunden, 2004
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Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews? Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were directed against Gentile Christians. More specifically, it was directed toward Gentile Christian judaizers. These were …
Social Setting of the Ministry As Reflected in the Writings of Hermas, Clement and Ignatius
Häftad, 2002
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Focussing on three first- and early-second-century documents (the Shepherd of Hermas, 1 Clement and the Ignatian epistles), this work contributes to a growing body of literature concerned with the social setting of early Christianity. Maier argues that the development of structures of leadership in …
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
Inbunden, 2006
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Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry. The book is divided into three main sections. The first section debates the …
Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities
Av Willi Braun
Inbunden, 2005
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One of the most pressing issues for scholars of religion concerns the role of persuasion in early Christianities and other religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. The essays in Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities explore questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. …
From Sermon to Commentary
Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia
Inbunden, 2005
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The Bible has always been vital to Jewish religious life, and it has been expounded in diverse ways. Perhaps the most influential body of Jewish biblical interpretation is the Midrash that was produced by expositors during the first five centuries CE. Many such teachings are collected in the …
Society, the Sacred and Scripture in Ancient Judaism
A Sociology of Knowledge
Häftad, 1988
453 kr
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This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem community of the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.E. (ie, the Early Second Temple Period); (2) the Judaism of the Graeco-Roman …
