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Author : Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780891302292
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Jews and Christians in Antioch in the first four centuries of the common era written by Wayne A. Meeks and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Waynea Meeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780891303312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Jews and Christians in Antioch in the First Four Centuries of the Common written by Waynea Meeks and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Magnus Zetterholm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134425295
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Formation of Christianity in Antioch written by Magnus Zetterholm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And conclusion3 THE CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS DIFFERENTIATION; Introduction; Constructing analytical tools; A theory of religious differentiation; Religion and value-changing processes; Muslims and religious change in modern Europe; Pluralism and religious differentiation; A theory of social integration; Variables of assimilation; The process of assimilation; The assimilation profile-a test case; The use of acculturation; Analysis-Antiochean Judaism revealed; Groups and factions; Crossing the boundaries-Antiochus the apostate; Observing torah-religious traditionalists.
Author : Shelly Matthews
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804780407
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)
Download or read book First Converts written by Shelly Matthews and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. This book provides a new reading of sources from which this truism springs, focusing on two texts from the turn of the first century, Josephus's Antiquities and Luke's Acts. The book studies representation, analyzing the repeated portrayal of rich women as aiding and/or converting to early Judaism in its various forms. It also shows how these sources can be used in reconstructing women's history, thus engaging current feminist debates about the relationship of rhetorical presentation of women in texts to historical reality. Because many of these texts speak of high-standing women's conversion to Judaism and early Christianity, this book also engages in the current debate about whether early Judaism was a missionary religion. The author argues that focusing on these stories of women converts and adherents, which have been largely ignored in previous discussions of the missionary question, sets the missionary question in a new, more adequate framework. The first chapter elucidates a story in Josephus's Antiquities of the mishaps of two Roman matrons devoted to Isis and Jewish cults by considering the common Hellenistic topos linking high-standing women, promiscuity, and religious impropriety. The remaining chapters demonstrate that in spite of this topos, Josephus, Luke, and other religious apologists did tell stories of rich women's associations with their communities for positive rhetorical effect. In so doing, the book challenges the widespread assumption that women's association with "foreign" religious cults was always derided, questions scholarly arguments about public and private roles in antiquity, and invites reflection on issues of mission and conversion within the larger framework of Greco-Roman benefaction.
Author : Michelle Slee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567352463
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)
Download or read book The Church in Antioch in the First Century CE written by Michelle Slee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the problems faced by the church in Antioch in the mid-first century CE once the decision was taken to welcome Gentiles into the church. Slee argues that a particular problem was the celebration of the Eucharist, since some Jewish Christians felt that the table-fellowship this involved inevitably brought the risk of contamination (because of Gentile contact with idolatry). She suggests this was the subject debated at the Jerusalem conference described in Acts 15 and Galatians 2, and it was the eventual decision of the Antioch church to hold separate Eucharists that led to Paul's break with the church (Gal 2:11-14). Thus even at the end of the first century CE the Antioch church was still divided on the issue.
Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567041708
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Christian-Jewish Relations Through the Centuries written by Stanley E. Porter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-12-19 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian-Jewish relations have had changing fortunes throughout the centuries. Occasionally there has been peace and even mutual understanding, but usually these relations have been ones of tension, often involving recrimination and even violence. This volume addresses a number of the major questions that have been at the heart and the periphery of these tenuous relations through the years. The volume begins with a number of papers discussing relations as Christianity emerged from and defined itself in terms of Judaism. Other papers trace the relations through the intervening years. And a number of papers confront issues that have been at the heart of the troubled twentieth century. In all, these papers address a sensitive yet vital set of issues from a variety of approaches and perspectives, becoming in their own way a part of the ongoing dialogue.
Author : Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jews and Christians in Antioch in the First Four Centuries of the Common Era written by Wayne A. Meeks and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antioch was a key city in the history of Christian-Jewish relations; it was there that Christianity evolved as a religion separate from Judaism. The city was also the site of a longtime, ongoing conflict with Jews from the Hellenistic period, which sometimes erupted in anti-Jewish riots. In the 3th-4th centuries, Christian homilists attacked not only the Jews but also the Judaeo-Christians in Antioch. In the time of the Emperor Julian, a reconciliation took place between official paganism and Judaism, but there was an anti-Jewish backlash in Antioch after the death of the emperor in 363. It was in this atmosphere that John Chrysostom preached his "Adversus Judaeos" sermons. Argues that the homilies against the Jews attest not so much to the anti-Jewish atmosphere in Antioch as to the widespread Christian infatuation with Judaism. Ch. 2 (p. 53-57) presents a few archaeological sources relating to the situation of Jews in Antioch. Chs. 3-4 (p. 59-81) describe nine letters (out of more than 1,500 extant letters) of Libanius, a resident of Antioch, relating to the relations of Jews with non-Jews. Ch. 5 (p. 83-127) presents an English translation of Chrysostom's homilies no. 1 and 8 against the Jews.
Author : George Foot Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era written by George Foot Moore and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. S. Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521234252
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Christian Antioch written by D. S. Wallace-Hadrill and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982-09-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive survey of the history and, more particularly, of the thought of Antioch from the second to the eighth centuries of the Christian era. Dr Wallace-Hadrill traces the religious background of Antiochene Christianity and examines in detail aspects of its intellectual life: the exegesis of scripture, the interpretation of history, philosophy, and the doctrine of the nature of God as applied to an understanding of Christ and man's salvation. The community at Antioch stressed history and literalism, in self-conscious opposition to the tendency to allegorise that prevailed at Alexandria. While insisting on the divinity of Christ, they were equally adamant that no other doctrine should be allowed to compromise their central belief that Jesus was really human.
Author : John G. Gager, Jr.
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539371
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Who Made Early Christianity? written by John G. Gager, Jr. and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historical and theological study, John G. Gager undermines the myth of the Apostle Paul's rejection of Judaism, conversion to Christianity, and founding of Christian anti-Judaism. He finds that the rise of Christianity occurred well after Paul's death and attributes the distortion of the Apostle's views to early and later Christians. Though Christian clerical elites ascribed a rejection-replacement theology to Paul's legend, Gager shows that the Apostle was considered a loyal Jew by many of his Jesus-believing contemporaries and that later Jewish and Muslim thinkers held the same view. He holds that one of the earliest misinterpretations of Paul was to name him the founder of Christianity, and in recent times numerous Jewish and Christian readers of Paul have moved beyond this understanding. Gager also finds that Judaism did not fade away after Paul's death but continued to appeal to both Christians and pagans for centuries. Jewish synagogues remained important religious and social institutions throughout the Mediterranean world. Making use of all possible literary and archaeological sources, including Muslim texts, Gager helps recover the long pre-history of a Jewish Paul, obscured by recent, negative portrayals of the Apostle, and recognizes the enduring bond between Jews and Christians that has influenced all aspects of Christianity.
Author : Bruce D. Chilton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004332472
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Jesus in Context written by Bruce D. Chilton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Proclamation of Jesus seeks to place Jesus in the context of first-century Palestinian Judaism. The authors hope to discern the essence of his preaching, his concept of the kingdom of God, and the place of purity in his teaching and activities. Better methods for assessing not simply the authenticity of reported sayings and deeds, but for tracing the development of tradition are considered. The authors are convinced that most of the Synoptic tradition is authentic, but that much of it has been reinterpreted and recontextualized. Herein lies the real challenge for those investigating the historical Jesus. The Proclamation of Jesus opens up new avenues of study and makes new proposals for understanding Jesus in the context of his place and time.
Author : James R. Davila
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004137521
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha written by James R. Davila and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes a substantial corpus of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, proposing a methodology for understanding them first in the social context of their earliest (Christian) manuscripts and inferring still earlier Jewish or other origins only as required by positive evidence.
Author : Gilbert S Rosenthal
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718845811
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book A Jubilee for All Time written by Gilbert S Rosenthal and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, the Second Vatican Council formally issued a historic document titled Nostra Aetate (In Our Time). It was an attempt to frame the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish people. Never before had an ecumenical council attempted such a task. The landmark document issued by the Council and proclaimed by Pope Paul VI precipitated a Copernican revolution in Catholic-Jewish relations and started a process that has spread to the Protestant and Orthodox worlds as well. A Jubilee for All Time, consisting of essays and reflections by Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Jewish scholars and theologians, by pastors and professors from the United States, Canada, Ireland, Great Britain, and Israel, is an evaluation of what Nostra Aetate has accomplished thus far and how Christian-Jewish relations must proceed in building bridges of respect, understanding, and trust between the faith groups. A Jubilee for All Time serves as a source of discussion, learning, and dialoguefor scholars, students and intelligent laypersons who believe that we must create a positive relationship between Judaism and Christianity.
Author : Dayna S. Kalleres
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520956842
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book City of Demons written by Dayna S. Kalleres and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the realm, bishops and priests everywhere struggled to "Christianize" the urban spaces still dominated by Greco-Roman monuments and festivals. During this period of upheaval, when congregants seemingly attended everything but their own "orthodox" church, many ecclesiastical leaders began simultaneously to promote aggressive and insidious depictions of the demonic. In City of Demons, Dayna S. Kalleres investigates this developing discourse and the church-sponsored rituals that went along with it, showing how shifting ecclesiastical demonologies and evolving practices of exorcism profoundly shaped Christian life in the fourth century.
Author : Lucas Andrianos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443870250
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Alternatives for Poverty Reduction and Eco-Justice written by Lucas Andrianos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents edited and revised versions of most of the papers presented at the First International Conference on Sustainable Alternatives for Poverty Reduction and Ecological Justice in 2012 (SAPREJ-12). The selected papers are classified into six thematic sections: Biodiversity and ecological crisis; Sustainability, religion and ethics; Climate change, eco-justice and health; Poverty, financial crisis and human rights; Green economy and food security; and Global crisis and case studies. SAPREJ-12 is a new initiative in sustainability development, and its methodological concept has opened new opportunities for analysis and criticism of the discipline. This book provides a useful perspective to evaluate the current state of the art and the diversity of the approaches adopted in analysing poverty eradication and sustainable development.
Author : Alan Cadwallader
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567695980
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity written by Alan Cadwallader and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a state-of-question introduction by Thomas Robinson, assessing the interrelation of the village and city with the rise of early Christianity. Alan Cadwallader then articulates a methodology for future New Testament studies on this topic, employing a series of case studies to illustrate the methodological issues raised. From there contributors explore three areas of village life in different geographical areas, by means of a series of studies, written by experts in each discipline. They discuss the ancient near east (Egypt and Israel), mainland and Isthmian Greece, Asia Minor, and the Italian Peninsula. This geographic focus sheds light upon the villages associated with the biblical cities (Israel; Corinth; Galatia; Ephesus; Philippi; Thessalonica; Rome), including potential insights into the rural nature of the churches located there. A final section of thematic studies explores central issues of local village life (indigenous and imperial cults, funerary culture, and agricultural and economic life).
Author : Erica Ferg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594496
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean written by Erica Ferg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of geography on religion and highlights a largely unknown story of religious history in the Eastern Mediterranean. In the Levant, agricultural communities of Jews, Christians, and Muslims jointly venerated and largely shared three important saints or holy figures: Jewish Elijah, Christian St. George, and Muslim al-Khiḍr. These figures share ‘peculiar’ characteristics, such as associations with rain, greenness, fertility, and storms. Only in the Eastern Mediterranean are Elijah, St. George, and al-Khiḍr shared between religious communities, or characterized by these same agricultural attributes – attributes that also were shared by regional religious figures from earlier time periods, such as the ancient Near Eastern Storm-god Baal-Hadad, and Levantine Zeus. This book tells the story of how that came to be, and suggests that the figures share specific characteristics, over a very long period of time, because these motifs were shaped by the geography of the region. Ultimately, this book suggests that regional geography has influenced regional religion; that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are not, historically or textually speaking, separate religious traditions (even if Jews, Christians, and Muslims are members of distinct religious communities); and that shared religious practices between members of these and other local religious communities are not unusual. Instead, shared practices arose out of a common geographical environment and an interconnected religious heritage, and are a natural historical feature of religion in the Eastern Mediterranean. This volume will be of interest to students of ancient Near Eastern religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, sainthood, agricultural communities in the ancient Near East, Middle Eastern religious and cultural history, and the relationships between geography and religion.
