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Author | : Ronald Dean Cameron |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004130640 |
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These essays challenge the traditional picture of Christian origins. Making use of social anthropology, they move away from traditional assumptions about the foundations of Christianity to propose that its historical beginnings are best understood as reflexive social experiments.
Author | : Ron Cameron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2004 |
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ISBN | : 9781280859250 |
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Author | : Ron Cameron |
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Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2004 |
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Download Redescribing Christian Origins. Society of Biblical Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this collection of provocative and ambitious essays, participants in the SBL's Seminar on Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins challenge traditional paradigms and reimagine the beginnings of Christian religion. Rather than assume that the gospel story has its foundation in the historical Jesus, a human encounter with transcendence, or the dramatic religious experience of individuals, contributors make use of social anthropology and propose that the beginnings of Christianity can be understood as reflexive social experiments. The first of three proposed volumes that launch.
Author | : Barry S. Crawford |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2017-06-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0884142035 |
Download Redescribing the Gospel of Mark Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collaborative project with a variety of critical essays This final volume of studies by members of the Society of Biblical Literature’s consultation, and later seminar, on Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins focuses on Mark. As with previous volumes, the provocative proposals on Christian origins offered by Burton L. Mack are tested by applying Jonathan Z. Smith's distinctive social theorizing and comparative method. Essays examine Mark as an author’s writing in a book culture, a writing that responded to situations arising out of the first Roman-Judean war after the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE. Contributors William E. Arnal, Barry S. Crawford, Burton L. Mack, Christopher R. Matthews, Merrill P. Miller, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Robyn Faith Walsh explore the southern Levant as a plausible provenance of the Gospel of Mark and provide a detailed analysis of the construction of Mark as a narrative composed without access to prior narrative sources about Jesus. A concluding retrospective follows the work of the seminar, its developing discourse and debates, and the continuing work of successor groups in the field. Features A thorough examination of the relation between structure and event in social and anthropological theory that provides conceptual tools for representing the project of the author of Mark An exploration of the southern Levant as a plausible provenance of the Gospel, a permanent site of successive imperial regimes and culturally related peoples A detailed analysis of the construction of Mark as a narrative composed without access to prior narrative sources about Jesus
Author | : Society of Biblical Literature |
Publisher | : Society of Biblical Lit |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 158983528X |
Download Redescribing Paul and the Corinthians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This second volume of studies by members of the SBL Seminar on Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins reassesses the agenda of modern scholarship on Paul and the Corinthians. The contributors challenge the theory of religion assumed in most New Testament scholarship and adopt a different set of theoretical and historical terms for redescribing the beginnings of the Christian religion. They propose explanations of the relationship between Paul and the recipients of 1 Corinthians; the place of Paul's Christ-myth for his gospel; the reasons for a disinterest in and rejection of Paul's gospel and/or for the reception and attraction of it; and the disjunction between Paul's collective representation of the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians and the Corinthians' own engagement with Paul in mythmaking and social formation, including mutual (mis)translation and (mis)appropriation of the other's discourse and practices.
Author | : Richard Horsley |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 1451416644 |
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Dealing with a time when "Christians" were moving towards separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's History of Christianity tells "the people's story" by gathering together evidence from the New Testament texts, archaeology, and other contemporary sources. Of particular interest to the distinguished group of scholar-contributors are the often overlooked aspects of the earliest "Christian" consciousness: How, for example, did they manage to negotiate allegiances to two social groups? How did they deal with crucial issues of wealth and poverty? What about the participation of slaves and women in these communities? How did living in the shadow of the Roman Empire color their religious experience and economic values?
Author | : Luke T. Johnson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 767 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004242988 |
Download Contested Issues in Christian Origins and the New Testament Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Contested Issues in Christian Origins and the New Testament, Luke Timothy Johnson offers a series of independent studies on a range of critical questions from the historical Jesus to sexuality and law.
Author | : Karl Kautsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Burton L. Mack |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451404661 |
Download A Myth of Innocence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This imaginative book is not just a study of the Gospel of Mark, but of primitive Christianity in all its variegated forms, for which it represents a new paradigm ... It deserves serious reflection and discussion at several levels, in a variety of contexts, by quite diversified discussion partners."? James M. Robinson, Professor Emeritus, Claremont Graduate University"This is an epic-making work because it turns scholarship on its head. Mack asks questions not about origins but about social meaning. The entire conception of what we want to know, why we want to know it, and how we shall find it out is new and compelling."? Jacob Neusner, Bard College"A Myth of Innocence is the most penetrating historical work on the origins of Christianity written by an American scholar in this century. Its strikingly innovative feature is the recombination of literary and social histories, and the placement of diverse Jesus movements into their respective social contexts."? Werner H. Kelber, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Author | : Lewis Ayres |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415107518 |
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Christian Origins is an exploration of the historical course and nature of early Christian theology, which concentrates on setting it within particular traditions or sets of traditions. In the three sections of the volume, Reading Origen, Reading the Fourth Century and Christian Origins in the Western Traditions, the contributors reconsider classic themes and texts in the light of the existing traditions of interpretation. They offer critiques of early Christian ideas and texts and they consider the structure and origins of standard modern readings of these ideas and texts. The contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches to analyse the interplay between ancient philosophical traditions and the development of Christian thought and to redefine the parameters between the previously accepted divisions in the traditions of Christian theology and thought.