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Of Widows and Meals

Author : Reta Halteman Finger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802830536
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Of Widows and Meals written by Reta Halteman Finger and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though "community" has become a common byword in the contemporary Western church, the practice of communal sharing has effectively fallen by the wayside. Unfortunately, it is often the poor who are left wanting because we no longer come together. Reta Halteman Finger finds a solution to this modern problem by learning from the ancient Mediterranean Christian culture of community. In the earliest Jerusalem church, in holding the responsibility for preparing and serving communal meals, women were given a place of honor. With the table fellowship and goods sharing of the early church, Luke says, there were no needy persons among them (Acts 4: 34). Finger thoroughly examines this agape-meal tradition, challenging traditional interpretations of the community of goods in the Jerusalem church and proving that the communal sharing lasted for hundreds of years longer than previously assumed. "Of Widows and Meals" begins a discussion of need in community that can revolutionize the contemporary church's interaction with the world at large.

Dining with John

Author : Esther Kobel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004223827
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Dining with John written by Esther Kobel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the accounts of communal meals and the metaphorical use of food and drink language in the narrative world of the Gospel of John. It argues that the Johannine community regularly gathered for communal meals in which the food and drink on the menu would have taken on a spiritual significance far exceeding the physical sustenance. The study employs a socio-rhetorical methodology and consequently moves from text to context. It tentatively describes the texts’ influence on the formation of early Christian identity and suggests that the Johannine meal accounts provide a way to imagine the demographic composition of the community and its historical context.

Meals in the Early Christian World

Author : Dennis E. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137032480
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Meals in the Early Christian World written by Dennis E. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides three categories of investigation: 1) The Typology and Context of the Greco-Roman Banquet, 2) Who Was at the Greco-Roman Banquets, and 3) The Culture of Reclining. Together these studies establish festive meals as an essential lens into social formation in the Greco-Roman world.

Dining with Pharisees

Author : J. Patrick Mullen
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814651629
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Dining with Pharisees written by J. Patrick Mullen and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calls upon Luke 7:36-50 as a starting point for studying the Pharisees from a perspective that aims to "redeem" them from anti-Semitic readings of the New Testament and establishes Jesus as a first-century Jew. Also, by comparing Luke and Mark, by posing questions and at times resolving them, the book demonstrates how Luke's themes, particularly those regarding the poor and marginalized, shape his conflation of Mark's story of Simon the Leper with other Lukan traditions.

First Converts

Author : Shelly Matthews
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804780407
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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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.

Luke 10-24

Author : Barbara E. Reid
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814688403
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Luke 10-24 written by Barbara E. Reid and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of female characters. Feminist biblical interpretation examines how the female characters function in the narrative and also scrutinizes the workings of power with respect to empire, to anti-Judaism, and to other forms of othering. Matthews and Reid draw attention to the ambiguities of the text—both the liberative possibilities and the ways that Luke upholds the patriarchal status quo—and guide readers to empowering reading strategies.

Luke 10-24

Author : Barbara E. Reid, OP
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814668151
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Luke 10-24 written by Barbara E. Reid, OP and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of female characters. Feminist biblical interpretation examines how the female characters function in the narrative and also scrutinizes the workings of power with respect to empire, to anti-Judaism, and to other forms of othering. Matthews and Reid draw attention to the ambiguities of the text-both the liberative possibilities and the ways that Luke upholds the patriarchal status quo-and guide readers to empowering reading strategies.

Wisdom Commentary: Luke 10-24

Author : Barbara E. Reid, OP
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814688152
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom Commentary: Luke 10-24 written by Barbara E. Reid, OP and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of female characters. Feminist biblical interpretation examines how the female characters function in the narrative and also scrutinizes the workings of power with respect to empire, to anti-Judaism, and to other forms of othering. Matthews and Reid draw attention to the ambiguities of the text-both the liberative possibilities and the ways that Luke upholds the patriarchal status quo-and guide readers to empowering reading strategies.

Jesus and Marginal Women

Author : Stuart L Love
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227903218
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Jesus and Marginal Women written by Stuart L Love and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful study explores the significance of the interactions between Jesus and 'marginal' women recounted in the Gospel of Matthew. Employing social-scientific models and carefully using comparative data, Love examines the various aspects of this marginality, identifying the attempts of Matthew's Gospel to promote Jesus's vision of a new surrogate family of God that challenges the traditional structures of the household.

Slavery in Early Christianity

Author : Jennifer A. Glancy
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Slavery in Early Christianity written by Jennifer A. Glancy and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work that exposed the centrality of enslaved people and slaveholders in early Christian circles. In this expanded edition, the distinguished scholar Jennifer A. Glancy reflects upon recent discoveries and future trajectories related to the study of ancient slavery's impact on Christianity's development. What if the stories traditionally told about slavery, as something peripheral or contradictory to Christianity's emergence, are wrong? This book contends that some of the most cherished Christian texts from Jesus and the apostle Paul prioritized the perspectives of slaveholders. Jennifer A. Glancy highlights how the strong metaphorical uses of slavery in early Christian discourse can't be disconnected from the reality of enslaved people and their bodies. Deftly maneuvering among biblical texts, material evidence, and the literary and philosophical currents of the Greco-Roman world, she situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting. Glancy's penetrating study into slavery's impact on early Christianity, from the pages of the New Testament to the branded collars used by Christians who held people in bondage, will be of interest to those asking questions about slavery, power, and freedom in the long arc of history.

The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions

Author : Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100041521X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions written by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor. By analyzing and comparing this figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and receptions, the chapters explore a conceptual shift from "Children of Abraham" to "Ambiguous Neighbors." Through a variety of case studies using diverse methods and material, chapters explore the neighbor in these neighboring texts and traditions. The figure of the neighbor seems like an innocent topic at the surface. It is an everyday phenomenon, that everyone have knowledge about and experiences with. Still, analytically, it has a rich and innovative potential. Recent interdisciplinary research employs this figure to address issues of cultural diversity, gender, migration, ethnic relationships, war and peace, environmental challenges and urbanization. The neighbor represents the borderline between insider and outsider, friend and enemy, us and them. This ambiguous status makes the neighbor particularly interesting as an entry point into issues of cultural complexity, self-definition and identity. This volume brings all the intersections of religion, ethnicity, gender, and socio-cultural diversity into the same neighborhood, paying attention to sacred texts, receptions and contemporary communities. The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions offers a fascinating study of the intersections between Jewish, Christian and Islamic text, and will be of interest to anyone working on these traditions.

Exchanges of Grace

Author : Natalie K. Watson
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0334041678
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Exchanges of Grace written by Natalie K. Watson and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique international collection of contributions in honour built around the three themes central to understanding the work of Ann Loades, Professor emerita of Durham University, a well known and well liked figure in contemporary western theology.

Meals in Early Judaism

Author : S. Marks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137363797
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Meals in Early Judaism written by S. Marks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book about the meals of Early Judaism. As such it breaks important new ground in establishing the basis for understanding the centrality of meals in this pivotal period of Judaism and providing a framework of historical patterns and influences.

Ascetic Eucharists

Author : Andrew McGowan
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191544345
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Ascetic Eucharists written by Andrew McGowan and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-05-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early Eucharist has usually been seen as sacramental eating of token bread and wine in careful or even slavish imitation of Jesus and his earliest disciples. In fact the evidence suggests great diversity in its conduct, including the use of foods, in the first few hundred years. Eucharistic meals involving cheese, milk, salt, oil, and vegetables are attested, and some have argued that even fish was used. The most significant exception to using bread and wine, however, was a `bread-and-water' Christian meal, an ancient ascetic form of the Eucharist. This tradition also involved rejection of meat from general diet, and reflected the concern of dissident communities to avoid the cuisine - meat and wine - characteristic of pagan sacrifice. This study describes and discusses these practices fully for the first time, and provides important new insights into the liturgical and social history of early Christianity.

Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion

Author : Margaret Y. MacDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567282
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion written by Margaret Y. MacDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE. The reference to a hysterical woman was made by the most prolific critic of Christianity, Celsus. He was referring to a follower of Jesus - probably Mary Magdalene - who was at the centre of efforts to create and promote belief in the resurrection. MacDonald draws attention to the conviction, emerging from the works of several pagan authors, that female initiative was central to Christianity's development; she sets out to explore the relationship between this and the common Greco-Roman belief that women were inclined towards excesses in religion. The findings of cultural anthropologists of Mediterranean societies are examined in an effort to probe the societal values that shaped public opinion and early church teaching. Concerns expressed in New Testament and early Christian texts about the respectability of women, and even generally about their behaviour, are seen in a new light when one appreciates that outsiders focused on early church women and understood their activities as a reflection of the group as a whole.

The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective

Author : Jerome H. Neyrey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802848664
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective written by Jerome H. Neyrey and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johns Gospel has been studied and evaluated and interpreted constantly by theologians throughout the ages. Can anything more possibly be said? Jerome Neyrey says it can, indeed, by interpreting it in two fresh ways by means of ancient rhetoric and by viewing it in its cultural context. / In order to find patterns and concepts that have a bearing on how to read John Neyrey examines the rhetoric of praise and blame described in the ancient encomium, the Greek commonplace on noble death, rules for rhetorical conclusions, and Jewish background materials. He then uses materials from cultural anthropology, such as the effects of limited good and envy, secrecy, and brokerage. Even innocent topics such as time and space have much to say about interpreting the figure of Jesus. / In viewing John through these two lenses, The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective brings the book into clear focus as a truly maverick gospel

Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria

Author : Joan E. Taylor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191555459
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria written by Joan E. Taylor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-century ascetic Jewish philosophers known as the 'Therapeutae', described in Philo's treatise De Vita Contemplativa, have often been considered in comparison with early Christians, the Essenes, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. This study, which includes a new translation of De Vita Contemplativa, focuses particularly on issues of historical method, rhetoric, women, and gender, and comes to new conclusions about the nature of the group and its relationship with the allegorical school of exegesis in Alexandria. Joan E. Taylor argues that the group represents the tip of an iceberg in terms of ascetic practices and allegorical exegesis, and that the women described point to the presence of other Jewish women philosophers in Alexandria in the first century CE. Members of the group were 'extreme allegorizers' in following a distinctive calendar, not maintaining usual Jewish praxis, and concentrating their focus on attaining a trance-like state in which a vision of God's light was experienced. Their special 'feast' was configured in terms of service at a Temple, in which both men and women were priestly attendants of God.