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Author : Nancy Pardee
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161483981
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (839 download)
Download or read book The Genre and Development of the Didache written by Nancy Pardee and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2012 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 2002.
Author : William Varner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567708217
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)
Download or read book The Apostolic Fathers written by William Varner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Varner provides a completely up-to-date introduction to the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. These 1st-2nd Century texts are foundational for the early Christian movement, and the interpretation of the New Testament in the earliest days of what was to later become known as Christianity. Beyond introducing the individual writers Varner also presents and situates their writings, with each chapter offering an introduction followed by key texts. Varner translates these works afresh, and situates them in their original contexts. The introductory materials help readers to interpret these various writings and outline the most important scholarly debates around them, whilst also giving readers access to the texts themselves. The book concludes with a chapter that shows how the Apostolic Fathers are relevant in the 21st century, drawing together threads of reception history and modern Christian theology.
Author : Bruce W. Longenecker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108671292
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity written by Bruce W. Longenecker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three hundred years of the common era witnessed critical developments that would become foundational for Christianity itself, as well as for the societies and later history that emerged thereafter. The concept of 'ancient Christianity,' however, along with the content that the category represents, has raised much debate. This is, in part, because within this category lie multiple forms of devotion to Jesus Christ, multiple phenomena, and multiple permutations in the formative period of Christian history. Within those multiples lie numerous contests, as varieties of Christian identity laid claim to authority and authenticity in different ways. The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity addresses these contested areas with both nuance and clarity by reviewing, synthesizing, and critically engaging recent scholarly developments. The 27 thematic chapters, specially commissioned for this volume from an international team of scholars, also offer constructive ways forward for future research.
Author : Udo Schnelle
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493422421
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book The First One Hundred Years of Christianity written by Udo Schnelle and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning as a marginal group in Galilee, the movement initiated by Jesus of Nazareth became a world religion within 100 years. Why, among various religious movements, did Christianity succeed? This major work by internationally renowned scholar Udo Schnelle traces the historical, cultural, and theological influences and developments of the early years of the Christian movement. It shows how Christianity provided an intellectual framework, a literature, and socialization among converts that led to its enduring influence. Senior New Testament scholar James Thompson offers a clear, fluent English translation of the successful German edition.
Author : Michael F. Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842953X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers written by Michael F. Bird and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting edge introduction to a collection of early Christian writings that stem from a forgotten era in Christian history.
Author : Kelly Kapic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567655644
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Reading Christian Theology in the Protestant Tradition written by Kelly Kapic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Christian Theology in the Protestant Tradition offers a distinctive approach to the value of classic works through the lens of Protestantism. While it is anachronistic to speak of Christian theology prior to the Reformation as “Protestant”, it is wholly appropriate to recognize how certain common Protestant concerns can be discerned in the earliest traditions of Christianity. The resonances between the ages became both informative and inspiring for Protestants who looked back to pre-reformation sources for confirmation, challenge, and insight. Thus this book begins with the first Christian theologians, covering nearly 2000 years of theological writing from the Didache, Justin Martyr, and Origen to James Cone, José Míguez Bonino, and Sallie McFague. Five major periods of church history are represented in 12 key works, each carefully explained and interpreted by an expert in the field.
Author : F. B. A. Asiedu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978701330
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Josephus, Paul, and the Fate of Early Christianity written by F. B. A. Asiedu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flavius Josephus, the priest from Jerusalem who was affiliated with the Pharisees, is our most important source for Jewish life in the first century. His notice about the death of James the brother of Jesus suggests that Josephus knew about the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem and in Judaea. In Rome, where he lived for the remainder of his life after the Jewish War, a group of Christians appear to have flourished, if 1 Clement is any indication. Josephus, however, says extremely little about the Christians in Judaea and nothing about those in Rome. He also does not reference Paul the apostle, a former Pharisee, who was a contemporary of Josephus’s father in Jerusalem, even though, according to Acts, Paul and his activities were known to two successive Roman governors (procurators) of Judaea, Marcus Antonius Felix and Porcius Festus, and to King Herod Agrippa II and his sisters Berenice and Drusilla. The knowledge of the Herodians, in particular, puts Josephus’s silence about Paul in an interesting light, suggesting that it may have been deliberate. In addition, Josephus’s writings bear very little witness to other contemporaries in Rome, so much so that if we were dependent on Josephus alone we might conclude that many of those historical characters either did not exist or had little or no impact in the first century. Asiedu comments on the state of life in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian and how both Josephus and the Christians who produced 1 Clement coped with the regime as other contemporaries, among whom he considers Martial, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, and others, did. He argues that most of Josephus’s contemporaries practiced different kinds of silences in bearing witness to the world around them. Consequently, the absence of references to Jews or Christians in Roman writers of the last three decades of the first century, including Josephus, should not be taken as proof of their non-existence in Flavian Rome.
Author : Clare K. Rothschild
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161551345
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)
Download or read book New Essays on the Apostolic Fathers written by Clare K. Rothschild and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises fifteen new essays on the Apostolic Fathers with a focus on 1 and 2 Clement. An introductory essay investigates the role of seventeenth-century librarians in the origination of the collection's title. Five essays concern 1 Clement, exploring its relationship to 1 Corinthians, its generic classification, the discussion of "Christian education" (1 Clem. 21:8), the golden calf tradition, and the well-known legend of the regeneration of the phoenix. Three essays treat 2 Clement, including problems with recent translations of chapter 1, the motif of the barren woman in chapter 2, and the analogy of faith as a race in chapter 7. The volume ranges widely within and beyond early Christian literature-from the streets of ancient Achaean and Asian the early modern libraries of Europe.
Author : Amiel Drimbe
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161583086
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Church of Antioch and the Eucharistic Traditions (ca. 35-130 CE) written by Amiel Drimbe and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has chosen 1) to analyse the Eucharistic traditions of earliest Christianity; and 2) to trace their use within the church of Antioch, focusing on the following key texts: 1 Cor. 11.23-25, Matt. 26.26-29, Did. 9.1-10.6, and Igantius, Phld. 4.1. Therefore, connecting the four Eucharistic texts to the early church of Antioch constitutes the main objective of this study. -- Introduction.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004690093
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book “The Teaching of These Words”: Intertextuality, Social Identity, and Early Christianity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean for a group to speak of its identity and, in contrast, to speak about the “other”? As with all groups, early Christian communities underwent a process of identity formation, and in this process, intertextuality played a role. The choice of biblical texts and imageries, their reception and adaptation, affected how early Christian communities perceived themselves. Conversely, how they perceived themselves affected which texts they were drawn to and how they read and received them. The contributors to this volume examine how early Christian authors used Scripture and related texts and, in turn, how those texts shaped the identity of their communities.
Author : Daniel Gurtner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004300023
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity written by Daniel Gurtner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of essays focuses on the twin areas of research undertaken by Prof. Michael W. Holmes. These are the sub-disciplines of textual criticism and the study of the Apostolic Fathers. The first part of the volume on textual criticism focuses on issues of method, the praxis of editing and collating texts, and discussions pertaining to individual variants. The second part of the volume assembles essays on the Apostolic Fathers. There is a particular focus on the person and writings of Polycarp, since this is the area of research where Prof. Holmes has worked most intensively.
Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567709868
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament written by Stanley E. Porter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines and outlines a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its relationship to New Testament Greek. The book reflects upon how SFL has grown as a field since it was first introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Stanley E. Porter in the 1980s. Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell first introduce basic concepts regarding discourse analysis and the major approaches towards it within New Testament studies. They then provide a detailed exploration of discourse analysis in terms of the textual metafunction, beginning with an introduction to the architecture of language within SFL, before exploring several individual elements within it. By focusing upon these individual components – in particular, theme and information structure, markedness and prominence, and coherence and cohesive harmony – Porter and O'Donnell introduce and exemplify the major resources of the textual metafunction.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004522050
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Access for this publication was made possible by a generous donation from Segelbergska stiftelsen för liturgivetenskaplig forskning (The Segelbergska Foundation for Research in Liturgical Studies). In a seminal study, Cur cantatur?, Anders Ekenberg examined Carolingian sources for explanations of why the liturgy was sung, rather than spoken. This multidisciplinary volume takes up Ekenberg’s question anew, investigating the interplay of New Testament writings, sacred spaces, biblical interpretation, and reception history of liturgical practices and traditions. Analyses of Greek, Latin, Coptic, Arabic, and Gǝʿǝz sources, as well as of archaeological and epigraphic evidence, illuminate an array of topics, including recent trends in liturgical studies; manuscript variants and liturgical praxis; Ignatius of Antioch’s choral metaphor; baptism in ancient Christian apocrypha; and the significance of late ancient altar veils.
Author : Gregory C. Jenks
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110869543
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Early Development of the Antichrist Myth written by Gregory C. Jenks and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) ist eine der ältesten und renommiertesten internationalen Buchreihen zur neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Seit 1923 publiziert sie wegweisende Forschungsarbeiten zum frühen Christentum und angrenzenden Themengebieten. Die Reihe ist historisch-kritisch verankert und steht neuen methodischen Ansätzen, die unser Verständnis des Neuen Testaments befördern, gleichfalls offen gegenüber.
Author : Nathanael R. Polinski
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532663153
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book That the Scriptures Might Be Fulfilled through Perfect Worship written by Nathanael R. Polinski and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hour of Jesus is a fundamental theme running throughout John’s Gospel (2:4—19:27) referring to Jesus’ glorification (7:39; 12:16, 23, 28; 13:31, 32; 16:14; 17:1, 5) in his passion and death (3:14; 8:28; 12:32, 34). Immediately after the culmination of Jesus’ hour (19:25–30) John provides a unique account of things that took place following Jesus’ death (19:31–34), apparently important to his audience (19:35), in which he recognizes scriptural fulfillment (19:36–37). At first glance, the fulfillment attested by the scriptures explicitly provided seems straightforward and of little significance, simply corresponding with the fundamental elements of the narrative in 19:32–33. Yet such an understanding runs contrary to John’s limited use of explicit Scripture citations (compared with the other evangelists) at a most critical moment in the Gospel. Rather, consistent with his allusive and engaging style, the evangelist relies on his audience to utilize the context he provides and the contexts he has presumed throughout his Gospel to perceive the depth and the expansiveness of the fulfillment he has recognized in Jesus’ hour. It is through these contexts that we gain greater insight into the fulfillment attested by John 19:36–37, illuminating Jesus’ hour and the entire Gospel.
Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191514926
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Trajectories through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers written by Andrew Gregory and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume work The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers offers a comparative study of two collections of early Christian texts: the New Testament; and the texts, from immediately after the New Testament period, which are conventionally referred to as the Apostolic Fathers. The second volume, Trajectories through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers , discusses broad theological, literary, and historical issues that arise in the comparative study of these texts, and which are of importance to the study of early Christianity. It deals with the most important current debates concerning both the Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament, such as baptism, Pauline theology, the function of apocalyptic elements, Church order, and Jewish and Christian identity.
Author : Stephen C. Carlson
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161533235
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (332 download)
Download or read book The Text of Galatians and Its History written by Stephen C. Carlson and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's doctoral dissertation. This volume investigates the text of Paul's Epistle to the Galatians and its history, how it changed over time. This wok performs a stemmatic analysis of 92 witnesses to the text of Galatians, using cladistic methods developed by computational biologists, to construct an unoriented stemma of the textual tradition. The stemma is then oriented based on the internal evidence of textual variants.
