Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004680829
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The essays in the present volume celebrate the work of Margaret M. Mitchell (University of Chicago) by engaging, extending, and challenging her ground-breaking research in three areas: (1) the letters of Paul the Apostle, both authentic and pseudepigraphic; (2) the emergence and rapid development of early Christian literary culture over the first few centuries of the cult’s existence; and (3) Late Antique interpretive practices and perspectives, particularly among patristic readers of the scriptures.
Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004680829
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The essays in the present volume celebrate the work of Margaret M. Mitchell (University of Chicago) by engaging, extending, and challenging her ground-breaking research in three areas: (1) the letters of Paul the Apostle, both authentic and pseudepigraphic; (2) the emergence and rapid development of early Christian literary culture over the first few centuries of the cult’s existence; and (3) Late Antique interpretive practices and perspectives, particularly among patristic readers of the scriptures.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004680829
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The essays in the present volume celebrate the work of Margaret M. Mitchell (University of Chicago) by engaging, extending, and challenging her ground-breaking research in three areas: (1) the letters of Paul the Apostle, both authentic and pseudepigraphic; (2) the emergence and rapid development of early Christian literary culture over the first few centuries of the cult’s existence; and (3) Late Antique interpretive practices and perspectives, particularly among patristic readers of the scriptures.
Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity
Author:
Publisher: Novum Testamentum, Supplements
ISBN: 9789004523845
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume celebrates Prof. Margaret M. Mitchell of the University of Chicago with incisive studies on the Apostle Paul, early Christian literary culture, and ancient interpretive practices and perspectives written by a prestigious group of scholars
Publisher: Novum Testamentum, Supplements
ISBN: 9789004523845
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume celebrates Prof. Margaret M. Mitchell of the University of Chicago with incisive studies on the Apostle Paul, early Christian literary culture, and ancient interpretive practices and perspectives written by a prestigious group of scholars
Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004702008
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
David P. Moessner has pioneered the study of early Christian narrative both through the investigation of the principles and methods of good storytelling outlined by ancient authors, and through the demonstration that Christians, especially the author of Luke-Acts, used these principles and methods in crafting their own stories. The contributors to this volume recognize Moessner’s enormously valuable research and warm collegiality with twenty-one essays on narrative hermeneutics, characterization, genre, intertextuality, and reception history. Several focus fittingly on Luke and Acts, while others press the implications of Moessner’s work for comprehension of the wider world of Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman storytelling.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004702008
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
David P. Moessner has pioneered the study of early Christian narrative both through the investigation of the principles and methods of good storytelling outlined by ancient authors, and through the demonstration that Christians, especially the author of Luke-Acts, used these principles and methods in crafting their own stories. The contributors to this volume recognize Moessner’s enormously valuable research and warm collegiality with twenty-one essays on narrative hermeneutics, characterization, genre, intertextuality, and reception history. Several focus fittingly on Luke and Acts, while others press the implications of Moessner’s work for comprehension of the wider world of Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman storytelling.
Galatians
Author: Christopher M. Tuckett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567716406
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 827
Book Description
For over one hundred years the International Critical Commentary has had a special place amongst works on the Bible. This new volume on Galatians brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this New Testament book. Tuckett incorporates new evidence available in the field and applies new methods of studies. No uniform theological or critical approach to the text is taken.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567716406
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 827
Book Description
For over one hundred years the International Critical Commentary has had a special place amongst works on the Bible. This new volume on Galatians brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this New Testament book. Tuckett incorporates new evidence available in the field and applies new methods of studies. No uniform theological or critical approach to the text is taken.
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences
Author: Susanne Luther
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110717484
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110717484
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.
The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation
Author: Benjamin A. Edsall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108471315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Situates Pauline analysis within the context of early Christian institutions. Examines the hermeneutics of reception-historical studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108471315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Situates Pauline analysis within the context of early Christian institutions. Examines the hermeneutics of reception-historical studies.
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
Author: A. J. Berkovitz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512824194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one's last words. And within a scriptural universe, no work exerted more force than the Psalter, the most cherished text among all the books of the Hebrew Bible. A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity clarifies the world of late ancient Judaism through the versatile and powerful lens of the Psalter. It asks a simple set of questions: Where did late ancient Jews encounter the Psalms? How did they engage with the work? And what meanings did they produce? A. J. Berkovitz answers these queries by reconstructing and contextualizing a diverse set of religious practices performed with and on the Psalter, such as handling a physical copy, reading from it, interpreting it exegetically, singing it as liturgy, invoking it as magic and reciting it as an act of piety. His book draws from and contributes to the fields of ancient Judaism, biblical reception, book history and the history of reading.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512824194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one's last words. And within a scriptural universe, no work exerted more force than the Psalter, the most cherished text among all the books of the Hebrew Bible. A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity clarifies the world of late ancient Judaism through the versatile and powerful lens of the Psalter. It asks a simple set of questions: Where did late ancient Jews encounter the Psalms? How did they engage with the work? And what meanings did they produce? A. J. Berkovitz answers these queries by reconstructing and contextualizing a diverse set of religious practices performed with and on the Psalter, such as handling a physical copy, reading from it, interpreting it exegetically, singing it as liturgy, invoking it as magic and reciting it as an act of piety. His book draws from and contributes to the fields of ancient Judaism, biblical reception, book history and the history of reading.
Voice, Text, Hypertext
Author: Raimonda Modiano
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806931
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Voice, Text, Hypertext illustrates brilliantly why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically in recent years. For the distinguished authors of these essays, a “text” is more than a document or material object. It is a cultural event, a matrix of decisions, an intricate cultural practice that may focus on religious traditions, modern “underground” literary movements, poetic invention, or the irreducible complexity of cultural politics. Drawing from classical Roman and Indian to modern European traditions, the volume makes clear that to study a text is to study a culture. It also demonstrates the essential importance of heightened textual awareness for contemporary cultural studies and critical theory—and, indeed, for any discipline that studies human culture.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806931
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Voice, Text, Hypertext illustrates brilliantly why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically in recent years. For the distinguished authors of these essays, a “text” is more than a document or material object. It is a cultural event, a matrix of decisions, an intricate cultural practice that may focus on religious traditions, modern “underground” literary movements, poetic invention, or the irreducible complexity of cultural politics. Drawing from classical Roman and Indian to modern European traditions, the volume makes clear that to study a text is to study a culture. It also demonstrates the essential importance of heightened textual awareness for contemporary cultural studies and critical theory—and, indeed, for any discipline that studies human culture.
The Oral and the Written Gospel
Author: Werner H. Kelber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253210975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Spoken words process knowledge differently from writing. What happens when speech turns into text? In reappraising literary scholars' propensity to trace Jesus' sayings back to the assumed original version, the author argues that in the oral medium each rendition of a saying is the original. Orality works with multiple originals, rather than with single originality. In what may be the most extraordinary thesis of the book, Kelber argues that the written gospel is related less by evolutionary progression than by contradiction to what preceded it.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253210975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Spoken words process knowledge differently from writing. What happens when speech turns into text? In reappraising literary scholars' propensity to trace Jesus' sayings back to the assumed original version, the author argues that in the oral medium each rendition of a saying is the original. Orality works with multiple originals, rather than with single originality. In what may be the most extraordinary thesis of the book, Kelber argues that the written gospel is related less by evolutionary progression than by contradiction to what preceded it.
Separating Abram and Lot
Author: Dan Rickett
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900441388X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In Separating Abram and Lot: The Narrative Role and Early Reception of Genesis 13, Dan Rickett presents a fresh analysis of two of Genesis’ most important characters. Many have understood Lot as Abram’s potential heir and as an ethical contrast to him. Here, Rickett explores whether these readings best reflect the focus of the story. In particular, he considers the origin of these readings and how a study of the early Jewish and Christian reception of Genesis 13 might help identify that origin. In turn, due attention is given to the overall purpose of Genesis 13, as well as how Lot and his function in the text should be understood.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900441388X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In Separating Abram and Lot: The Narrative Role and Early Reception of Genesis 13, Dan Rickett presents a fresh analysis of two of Genesis’ most important characters. Many have understood Lot as Abram’s potential heir and as an ethical contrast to him. Here, Rickett explores whether these readings best reflect the focus of the story. In particular, he considers the origin of these readings and how a study of the early Jewish and Christian reception of Genesis 13 might help identify that origin. In turn, due attention is given to the overall purpose of Genesis 13, as well as how Lot and his function in the text should be understood.