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Crossing Boundaries in Early Judaism and Christianity

Author : Kimberley Stratton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004334491
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Boundaries in Early Judaism and Christianity written by Kimberley Stratton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates the scholarship of Alan Segal. During his prolific career, Alan published ground-breaking studies that shifted scholarly conversations about Christianity, rabbinic Judaism, Hellenism and Gnosticism. Like the subjects of his research, Alan crossed many boundaries. He understood that religions do not operate in academically defined silos, but in complex societies populated by complicated human beings. Alan’s work engaged with a variety of social-scientific theories that illuminated ancient sources and enabled him to reveal new angles on familiar material. This interdisciplinary approach enabled Alan to propose often controversial theories about Jewish and Christian origins. A new generation of scholars has been nurtured on this approach and the fields of early Judaism and Christianity emerge radically redefined as a result.

Earliest Christianity within the Boundaries of Judaism

Author : Alan Avery-Peck
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004310339
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Earliest Christianity within the Boundaries of Judaism by : Alan Avery-Peck

Download or read book Earliest Christianity within the Boundaries of Judaism written by Alan Avery-Peck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two essays, written by top scholars in the fields of early Christianity and Judaism, focus on methodological issues, earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting, Gospel studies, and history and meaning in later Christianity. These essays honor Bruce Chilton, recognizing his seminal contribution to the study of earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting. Chilton’s scholarship has established innovative approaches to reconstructing the life of Jesus, a Jew whose religious ideology developed and therefore must be understood within the Judaism of the first centuries. Following upon Chilton’s approaches and insights, the essays collected here illustrate the centrality of the literatures of early Judaism to the critical exegesis of the New Testament and other writings of early Christianity.

Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Author : John J. Collins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110597268
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity by : John J. Collins

Download or read book Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity written by John J. Collins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature and origin of Jewish mysticism is a controversial subject. This volume explores the subject by examining both the Hebrew and Aramaic tradition (Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Enoch) and the Greek philosophical tradition (Philo) and also examines the Christian transformation of Jewish mysticism in Paul and Revelation. It provides for a nuanced treatment that differentiates different strands of thought that may be considered mystical. The Hebrew tradition is mythical in nature and concerned with various ways of being in the presence of God. The Greek tradition allows for a greater degree of unification and participation in the divine. The New Testament texts are generally closer to the Greek tradition, although Greek philosophy would have a huge effect on later Christian mysticism. The book is intended for scholars and advanced students of ancient Judaism and early Christianity.

The Literature of the Sages

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004515690
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of the Sages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume abandons the document-based approach of standard introductions and investigates aggregates of classical rabbinic texts through three broad perspectives – intertextuality, east and west, halakhah and aggadah – generating fresh insights that will reset the scholarly agenda.

The Oxford Handbook of Deification

Author : Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198865171
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Deification by : Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Deification written by Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a comprehensive and varied study of deification within Christian theology. Forty-six leading experts in the field examine points of convergence and difference on the constitutive elements of deification across different writers, thinkers, and traditions.

Ancient Texts, Papyri, and Manuscripts

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465731
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Texts, Papyri, and Manuscripts written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume honors Prof. James R. Royse for his scholarly achievement in the fields of New Testament textual criticism and Philonic studies. It contains seventeen articles, prefaced by an introductory biographical article and a list of his publications.

The Christian Moses

Author : Jared C. Calaway
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773559795
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis The Christian Moses by : Jared C. Calaway

Download or read book The Christian Moses written by Jared C. Calaway and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 who gets to decide? The Christian Moses investigates how ancient Christians from the New Testament to Augustine of Hippo resolved questions of who can see God, how one can see God, and what precisely one sees. Jaeda Calaway explains that the decision about whether and how Moses saw God was not a neutral exercise for an early Christian. Rather, it established the interpreter's authority to determine what was possible in divine-human relations and set the parameters for the nature of humanity. As a result, Calaway argues, interpretations of Moses' visions became a means for Jews and Christians to jockey for power, allowing them to justify particular social arrangements, relations, and identities, to assert the limits of humans in the face of divinity, and to create an Other. Seeing early Christians with new eyes, The Christian Moses reassesses how debates on Moses' visions from the first through the fifth centuries were, in reality, debates on the boundaries of humanity.

Leviticus and Its Reception in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran

Author : Baesick Choi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532692226
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Leviticus and Its Reception in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran written by Baesick Choi and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large amount of Leviticus material has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yet there is surprisingly little secondary scholarly analysis of the role of Leviticus in this corpus. The book of Leviticus survives in several manuscripts; it also features in quotations and allusions, so that it seems to be a foundational source for the ideology behind the composition of some of the nonscriptural texts. Indeed this volume argues that the ideology of the Holiness Code persisted in the communities that collected the manuscripts and placed them in the Qumran Caves.

Rediscovering the Marys

Author : Mary Ann Beavis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567683494
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering the Marys written by Mary Ann Beavis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume of text and art offers new insights into various unsolved mysteries associated with Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Miriam the sister of Moses. Mariamic traditions are often interconnected, as seen in the portrayal of these women as community leaders, prophets, apostles and priests. These traditions also are often inter-religious, echoing themes back to Miriam in the Hebrew Bible as well as forward to Maryam in the Qur'an. The chapters explore questions such as: which biblical Mary did the author of the Gospel of Mary intend to portray-Magdalene, Mother, or neither? Why did some writers depict Mary of Nazareth as a priest? Were extracanonical scriptures featuring Mary more influential than the canonical gospels on the depiction of Maryam in the Qur'an? Contributors dig deep into literature, iconography, and archaeology to offer cutting edge research under three overarching topics. The first section examines the question of "which Mary?" and illustrates how some ancient authors (and contemporary scholars) may have conflated the biblical Marys. The second section focuses on Mary of Nazareth, and includes research related to the portrayal of Mary the Mother of Jesus as a Eucharistic priest. The final section, “Recovering Receptions of Mary in Art, Archeology, and Literature,” explores how artists and authors have engaged with one or more of the Marys, from the early Christian era through to medieval and modern times.

Engaging the Doctrine of Israel

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725291118
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Engaging the Doctrine of Israel written by Matthew Levering and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the dogmatic sequel to Levering's Engaging the Doctrine of Marriage, in which he argued that God's purpose in creating the cosmos is the eschatological marriage of God and his people.. God sets this marriage into motion through his covenantal election of a particular people, the people of Israel. Central to this people's relationship with the Creator God are their Scriptures, exodus, Torah, Temple, land, and Davidic kingship. As a Christian Israelology, this book devotes a chapter to each of these topics, investigating their theological significance both in light of ongoing Judaism and in light of Christian Scripture (Old and New Testaments) and Christian theology. The book makes a significant contribution to charting a path forward for Jewish-Christian dialogue from the perspective of post-Vatican II Catholicism.

The Evil Creator

Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197566448
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Evil Creator written by M. David Litwa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the origins of the evil creator idea chiefly in light of early Christian biblical interpretations. It is divided into two parts. In Part I, the focus is on the interpretations of Exodus and John. Firstly, ancient Egyptian assimilation of the Jewish god to the evil deity Seth-Typhon is studied to understand its reapplication by Phibionite and Sethian Christians to the Judeo-catholic creator. Secondly, the Christian reception of John 8:44 (understood to refer to the devil's father) is shown to implicate the Judeo-catholic creator in murdering Christ. Part II focuses on Marcionite Christian biblical interpretations. It begins with Marcionite interpretations of the creator's character in the Christian "Old Testament," analyzes 2 Corinthians 4:4 (in which "the god of this world" blinds people from Christ's glory), examines Christ's so-called destruction of the Law (Eph 2:15) and the Lawgiver, and shows how Christ finally succumbs to the "curse of the Law" inflicted by the creator (Gal 3:13). A concluding chapter shows how still today readers of the Christian Bible have concluded that the creator manifests an evil character.

Jewish Martyrdom in Antiquity

Author : Yair Furstenberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004538267
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Martyrdom in Antiquity written by Yair Furstenberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of all relevant sources concerning Jewish martyrdom in Antiquity. By viewing these narratives together, tracing their development and comparing them to other traditions, the authors seek to explore how Jewish is Jewish martyrdom? To this end, they analyse the impact of the changing social and religious-cultural circumstances and the interactions with Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. This results in the identification of important continuities and discontinuities. Consequently, while political ideals that are prominent in 2 and 4 Maccabees are remarkably absent from rabbinic sources, the latter reveal a growing awareness of Christian motifs and discourse.

Jesus and the Empire of God

Author : Margaret Froelich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567700879
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Jesus and the Empire of God written by Margaret Froelich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Froelich examines the Gospel of Mark using political and empire-critical methodologies, following postcolonial thinkers in perceiving a far more ambivalent message than previous pacifistic interpretations of the text. She argues that Mark does not represent an entirely new way of thinking about empire or cosmic structures, but rather exhibits concepts and structures with which the author and his audience are already familiar in order to promote the Kingdom of God as a better version of the encroaching Roman Empire. Froelich consequently understands Mark as a response to the physical, ideological, and cultural displacement of the first Roman/Judean War. By looking to Greek, Roman, and Jewish texts to determine how first-century authors thought of conquest and expansion, Froelich situates the Gospel directly in a historical and socio-political context, rather than treating that context as a mere backdrop; concluding that the Gospel portrays the Kingdom of God as a conquering empire with Jesus as its victorious general and client king.

Pre-Islamic Arabia

Author : Valentina A. Grasso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009252976
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Pre-Islamic Arabia written by Valentina A. Grasso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the political and cultural developments of pre-Islamic Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the seventh century, Arabia was on the edge of three great empires (Iran, Rome and Aksūm) and at the centre of a lucrative network of trade routes. Valentina Grasso offers an interpretative framework which contextualizes the choice of Arabian elites to become Jewish sympathisers and/or convert to Christianity and Islam by probing the mobilization of faith in the shaping of Arabian identities. For the first time the Arabians of the period are granted autonomy from marginalizing (mostly Western) narratives framing them as 'barbarians' inhabiting the fringes of Rome and Iran and/or deterministic analyses in which they are depicted retrospectively as exemplified by the Muslims' definition of the period as Jāhilīyah, 'ignorance'.

Crossing Confessional Boundaries

Author : John Renard
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520287924
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Confessional Boundaries written by John Renard and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another’s communities. Ranging from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Crossing Confessional Boundaries explores the complex roles played by saints, sages, and Friends of God in the communal and intercommunal lives of Christians, Muslims, and Jews across the Mediterranean world, from Spain and North Africa to the Middle East to the Balkans. By examining these stories in their broad institutional, social, and cultural contexts, Crossing Confessional Boundaries reveals unique theological insights into the interlocking histories of the Abrahamic faiths.

Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud

Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023017
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud written by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.

Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Author : Eric F. Mason
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004386866
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam written by Eric F. Mason and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeen studies in Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explore the biblical origins of the golden calf story in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and 1 Kings, as well as its reception in a variety of sources: Hebrew Scriptures (Hosea, Jeremiah, Psalms, Nehemiah), Second Temple Judaism (Animal Apocalypse, Pseudo-Philo, Philo, Josephus), rabbinic Judaism, the New Testament (Acts, Paul, Hebrews, Revelation) and early Christianity (among Greek, Latin, and Syriac writers), as well as the Qur’an and Islamic literature. Expert contributors explore how each ancient author engaged with the calf traditions—whether explicitly, implicitly, or by clearly and consciously avoiding them—and elucidate how the story was used both negatively and positively for didactic, allegorical, polemical, and even apologetic purposes.