Gospel Reading And Reception In Early Christian Literature

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Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature

Author : Madison N. Pierce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009092383
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature written by Madison N. Pierce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the early Christian evangelists were Gospel writers, they were Gospel readers. Their composition process was more complex than simply compiling existing traditions about Jesus, then ordering them into a narrative frame. Rather, these writers were engaged in a creative and dynamic act of theological reception. 'Gospel reading' refers to this innovative and often artistic use of source materials -- from Israel's Scriptures to pre-existing narratives of Jesus-- to produce updated, expanded, or even alternative renditions. This volume explores that process. The common thread running through each chapter is the conviction that the early Christian practice of writing 'gospel' and the 'Gospels' was one of the most hermeneutically creative exercises in ancient literary culture, one that was prompted by the perceived theological significance of Jesus. The contributors seek to demonstrate the intricate dynamics of this controversial figure's theological and textual reception through foundational essays on specific texts and themes.

Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature

Author : Madison N. Pierce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316514463
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Performing Early Christian Literature

Author : Kelly Iverson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009033859
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Performing Early Christian Literature written by Kelly Iverson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of early Christian literature acknowledge that oral traditions lie behind the New Testament gospels. While the concept of orality is widely accepted, it has not resulted in a corresponding effort to understand the reception of the gospels within their oral milieu. In this book, Kelly Iverson reconsiders the experiential context in which early Christian literature was received and interpreted. He argues that reading and performance are distinguishable media events, and, significantly, that they produce distinctive interpretive experiences for readers and audiences alike. Iverson marshals an array of methodological perspectives demonstrating how performance generates a unique experiential context that shapes and informs the interpretive process. Iverson's study explores the dynamic oral environment in which ancient audiences experienced the gospel stories. He shows why an understanding of oral performance has important implications for the study of the NT, as well as for several issues that are largely unquestioned by biblical scholars.

Books and Readers in the Early Church

Author : Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300069181
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Books and Readers in the Early Church written by Harry Y. Gamble and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.

Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus

Author : Brian J. Wright
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506438490
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus written by Brian J. Wright and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns the premise that communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE by examining evidence for its practice in the first century.

Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture (Reading Christian Scripture)

Author : Constantine R. Campbell
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493427350
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture (Reading Christian Scripture) by : Constantine R. Campbell

Download or read book Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture (Reading Christian Scripture) written by Constantine R. Campbell and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey textbook by two respected New Testament scholars is designed to meet the needs of contemporary evangelical undergraduates. The book effectively covers the New Testament books and major topics in the New Testament, assuming no prior academic study of the Bible. The authors pay attention to how the New Testament documents fit together as a canonical whole that supplements the Old Testament to make up the Christian Scriptures. They also show how the New Testament writings provide basic material for Christian doctrine, spirituality, and engagement with culture. Chapters can be assigned in any order, making this an ideal textbook for one-semester courses at evangelical schools. This is the first volume in a new series of survey textbooks that will cover the Old and New Testaments. The book features full-color illustrations that hold interest and aid learning and offers a full array of pedagogical aids: photographs, sidebars, maps, time lines, charts, glossary, and discussion questions. Additional resources for instructors and students are available through Textbook eSources.

The Reception of Luke and Acts in the Period Before Irenaeus

Author : Andrew F. Gregory
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161480867
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Reception of Luke and Acts in the Period Before Irenaeus by : Andrew F. Gregory

Download or read book The Reception of Luke and Acts in the Period Before Irenaeus written by Andrew F. Gregory and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When and how may Christians first be shown to have used the Gospel of Luke and its companion volume, The Acts of the Apostles? Andrew Gregory offers the first book-length discussion of the reception of Luke and of Acts in the period before Irenaeus. The research project which was the basis of this monograph was originally conceived as a comparison of the pneumatology of Luke-Acts with the pneumatologies presented in Christian literature of the second century. Recent scholarship on Lukan pneumatology is agreed that Luke has a particular interest in the Spirit, but it is divided as to whether his pneumatology is part of a homogenous early Christian understanding or a distinctive presentation that is to be sharply differentiated from that of Matthew and Mark, of John, and of Paul. Noting a lacuna identified by Turner, the author set out to originally ask two questions. First, whether it might be possible to identify in second century pneumatologies any characteristics that New Testament scholars might label as distinctively Lukan. Second, whether such characteristics might be sufficient to indicate not only the influence of Lukan pneumatology but also a conscious appropriation of distinctively Lukan theology by other early Christians. Contents include: Introduction and methodology, Previous research, The evidence of the earliest manuscripts and notices, Do narrative outlines of episodes in the life of Jesus presuppose Luke?, Collections of the sayings of Jesus, Marcion, Justin Martyr, The reception of Luke in the Second Century, The reception of Acts in the Second Century, Early and Ambiguous Evidence, Justin Martyr, Narrative accounts explicitly concerning the Post-resurrection teaching of Jesus and the activity of Apostles and other prominent figures, The reception of Acts in the Period before Irenaeus, The reception of Luke and Acts in the Period before Irenaeus."

How to Study the Bible's Use of the Bible

Author : Gary Edward Schnittjer
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310142466
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book How to Study the Bible's Use of the Bible written by Gary Edward Schnittjer and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Study the Bible's Use of the Bible: Seven Hermeneutical Choices for the Old and New Testaments by Gary Edward Schnittjer and Matthew S. Harmon is an essential resource aimed at teaching a hermeneutic for understanding the Bible's use of the Bible. Intended for students of both testaments, the book's innovative approach demonstrates how the Old Testament use of Scripture provides resources for the New Testament authors' use of Scripture. The authors provide students with a clear approach to handling the Bible's use of itself through seven key hermeneutical choices organized into individual chapters. Each chapter introduces a hermeneutical choice and then provides several examples of the Old Testament use of Old Testament and the New Testament use of Old Testament. The plentiful examples model for students the need to ground hermeneutics in biblical evidence and provide insight into understanding why the Bible's use of the Bible is important.

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible

Author : Michael Lieb
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
ISBN 13 : 0199204543
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible written by Michael Lieb and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts; Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular biblical passages or books.

The Gospel on the Margins

Author : Michael J. Kok
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451490224
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Gospel on the Margins written by Michael J. Kok and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite virtually unanimous patristic association of the Gospel of Mark with the apostle Peter, the Gospel was mostly neglected by those same writers. Michael J. Kok surveys the second-century reception of Mark, from Papias of Hierapolis to Clement of Alexandria, and finds that the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace Mark because they perceived it to be too easily adapted to rival Christian factions. Kok describes the story of Marks Petrine origins as a second-century move to assert ownership of the Gospel on the part of the emerging Orthodox Church.

The Johannine Community in Contemporary Debate

Author : Christopher Seglenieks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978717326
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book The Johannine Community in Contemporary Debate written by Christopher Seglenieks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scholarly constructs have proven as influential or as durable as the Johannine community. A product of the era in New Testament studies dominated by redaction criticism, the Johannine community construct as articulated first by J. Louis Martyn and later by Raymond E. Brown emerged with an explanatory power that proved persuasive to scholars deliberating on the provenance and emergence of the Johannine literature for the next 50 years. Recent years, however, have seen this once dominant paradigm questioned by many of those working with the Gospel and Letters of John. The Johannine Community in Contemporary Debate is dedicated to exploring the current state of the question while shining a light on new and constructive proposals for understanding the emergence of the Johannine literature. Some contributions accept the idea of a Johannine Community but suggest different ways we might know about the nature of that community. Others reject the existence of a Johannine Community, suggesting alternate models for understanding the emergence of these texts. These proposals are themselves set in perspective by responses from senior scholars.

John, Jesus, and History, Volume 4

Author : Paul N. Anderson
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628376090
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book John, Jesus, and History, Volume 4 written by Paul N. Anderson and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John, Jesus, and History, Volume 4: Jesus Remembered in the Johannine Situation addresses the narrative development of the Johannine corpus over as many as seven decades. Contributors connect how Jesus is presented in the Fourth Gospel to how the memory of his ministry is developed in Palestine during the earliest period (30–70 CE), in Asia Minor in the later first century (70–100 CE), and in the main and alternative streams of post-Johannine early Christianity (100 CE and later). Contributors include Paul N. Anderson, Harold W. Attridge, Giovanni Bazzana, Jonathan Bernier, Sherri Brown, Rex D. Butler, Andrew J. Byers, Stephen C. Carlson, Warren Carter, Amber M. Dillon, Jonathan A. Draper, Musa W. Dube, Charles E. Hill, Karen L. King, Peter T. Lanfer, Kasper Bro Larsen, Ian N. Mills, Alicia D. Myers, Reinhard Pummer, Tuomas Rasimus, David Rensberger, Clare K. Rothschild, Geoffrey Smith, Travis D. Trost, Meredith J. C. Warren, Kenneth L. Waters Sr., and Lorne R. Zelyck. The collection pushes Johannine, Jesus, and early Christian history studies in new directions, raising possibilities for future research.

Jesus and His Promised Second Coming

Author : Tucker S. Ferda
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467463612
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Jesus and His Promised Second Coming written by Tucker S. Ferda and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering study of Scripture and reception history, Tucker S. Ferda shows that the hope for Jesus’s second coming originated in his own message about the coming of the kingdom after a time of distress. Most historical Jesus scholars take for granted that Jesus’s second coming was invented by his zealous early followers. In Jesus and His Promised Second Coming, Tucker S. Ferda challenges this critical consensus. Using innovative methodology, Ferda works backward through reception history to Paul and the Gospels to argue that the hope for the second coming originated in Jesus’s own grappling with the prospect of death and his conviction that the kingdom was near; he expected a return that would coincide with the final judgment and the end of the age within the space of a generation. Ferda also makes a major contribution to the reception history of the Bible, shedding light on how Christians distinguished their faith from Judaism by deriding “Jewish messianism” as earthly minded and militaristic. In the early modern period, critics found an expedient way to distance Jesus from this caricature of “Jewish messianism”: they pinned the expectation for the second coming on Jesus’s early followers. A new appreciation for the diversity of Judaism and messianism in the Second Temple period makes possible a fresh reconstruction of Jesus. Bold and historically astute, Jesus and His Promised Second Coming breathes new life into a long-stagnant conversation. It also offers readers fresh insight into the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Students and scholars of the New Testament will need to read and engage with Ferda’s provocative argument.

NIV, Upside-Down Kingdom Bible

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310456525
Total Pages : 1697 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book NIV, Upside-Down Kingdom Bible written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 1697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think Deeply // Love Widely The Kingdom of God calls believers to live faithfully in a way that flips the wisdom of worldly kingdoms on its head. In a culture that has become exponentially polarized it can be difficult to think deeply and love widely. The NIV Upside-Down Kingdom Bible provides readers with thoughtful, Scripture-based notes from a diverse set of trusted Christian voices that explores difficult issues facing Christians today, with features that are honest, nuanced, and filled with grace. The NIV Upside-Down Kingdom Bible provides hundreds of side-column notes, full page articles, essays, and book introductions that skillfully and thoughtfully address topics such as: race and ethnicity, environmental care, science, abortion, wealth and poverty, politics, baptism, technology, and others. Features: Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV) Book introductions Nine topical essays on relevant issues Christians encounter today Over 200 full-page articles throughout Hundreds of side-column study notes Full list of topics: Abortion and Reproduction • Art and Worship • Baptism • Creation Care • Death and Afterlife • Divorce • Family and Kinship • Festivals, Food, and Drink • Grace • Holiness • Lament and Grief • Leadership and Power • Mental Health • Migration • Politics • Race and Ethnicity • Sabbath • Satan, Demons, Angels, and Giants • Science • Sexuality and Gender • Singleness and Friendship • Slavery • Social Justice • Technology and Media • Trauma and Resilience • Violence and Warfare • Wealth and Poverty • Witchcraft and Magic • Women

The New Testament in Color

Author : Esau McCaulley
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830818294
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The New Testament in Color written by Esau McCaulley and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this one-volume commentary, a multiethnic team of scholars holding orthodox Christian beliefs brings exegetical expertise coupled with a unique interpretive lens to illuminate the ways social location and biblical interpretation work together. These diverse scholars offer a better vantage point for both the academy and the church.

Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels

Author : Scott McGill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317296613
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels written by Scott McGill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juvencus’ Evangeliorum libri IV, or "The Four Books of the Gospels," is a verse rendering of the gospel narrative written ca. 330 CE. Consisting of around 3200 hexameter lines, it is the first of the Latin "Biblical epics" to appear in antiquity, and the first classicizing, hexameter poem on a Christian topic to appear in the western tradition. As such, it is an important text in literary and cultural history. This is the first English translation of the entire poem. The lack of a full English translation has kept many scholars and students, particularly those outside of Classics, and many educated general readers from discovering it. With a thorough introduction to aid in the interpretation and appreciation of the text this clear and accessible English translation will enable a clearer understanding of the importance of Juvencus’ work to later Latin poetry and to the early Church.

Luke and the Jewish Other

Author : David Andrew Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000957950
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Luke and the Jewish Other written by David Andrew Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke and the Jewish Other takes up the debated question of the orientation of Luke towards the Jewish people. Building on recent studies in the social history of early Jewish-Christian relations, it offers an analysis of Luke’s portrayal of Jewish and Christian identities that challenges the common assumption that the construction of religious identity in antiquity necessarily depended upon antagonistic relations with others. Taking account of the deep and often divisive difference that belief in Jesus made in Luke’s community, the author argues that Luke hoped to bring about both a rapprochement with and the conversion of contemporary Jews. Through this account of identity and alterity in the Gospel of Luke, the book cuts across boundaries of biblical studies, history, theology, and social theory, proposing a way forward for the study of Luke’s relation to Judaism and of the "parting of the ways" between Jews and Christians in the early Common Era.