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| Author | : Pieter Willem van der Horst |
| Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9783161488511 |
A collection of essays, most of which were published previously. Partial contents:
| Author | : Judith Lieu |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2006-02-16 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780199291427 |
'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. Contemporary discussions of identity provide the background to a careful study of early Christian texts from the first two centuries. Judith Lieu shows that there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive.
| Author | : Jan Willem van Henten |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2012-11-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004242155 |
Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts focuses upon the nexus of early Christian Ethics and its contexts as a dynamic process. The ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman or early Christian traditions as well as with the social-historical context at large continuously transformed early Christian ethics. The volume proposes a dynamic model for studying culture and its various expressions in a society composed of several ethnic and religious groups. The contributions focus on specific transformations of ethics in key documents of early Christianity, or take a more comparative perspective pointing to similar developments and overlaps as well as particularities within early Christian writings, Hellenistic-Jewish writings, Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish inscriptions.
| Author | : D. Clint Burnett |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2021-01-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 3110691795 |
Given the dearth of non-messianic interpretations of Psalm 110:1 in non-Christian Second Temple Jewish texts, why did it become such a widely used messianic prooftext in the New Testament and early Christianity? Previous attempts to answer this question have focused on why the earliest Christians first began to use Ps 110:1. The result is that these proposals do not provide an adequate explanation for why first century Christians living in the Greek East employed the verse and also applied it to Jesus’s exaltation. I contend that two Greco-Roman politico-religious practices, royal and imperial temple and throne sharing—which were cross-cultural rewards that Greco-Roman communities bestowed on beneficent, pious, and divinely approved rulers—contributed to the widespread use of Ps 110:1 in earliest Christianity. This means that the earliest Christians interpreted Jesus’s heavenly session as messianic and thus political, as well as religious, in nature.
| Author | : Martin Goodman |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 1998-12-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0191518360 |
This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world. The authors make extensive use not only of types of evidence familiar to classicists, such as inscriptions and the writing of Josephus, but also Jewish religious literature, including rabbinic texts. The various studies demonstrate that, although Jews lived to some extent apart from others and with distinctive customs, in many ways this showed the cultural presuppositions and preoccupations of their gentile contemporaries. The book aims to encourage wider use of the Jewish evidence by classicists and will be important for all students of the classical world.
| Author | : James K. Aitken |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2014-10-20 |
| Genre | : Bibles |
| ISBN | : 1107001633 |
This comprehensive survey of Jewish-Greek society's development examines the exchange of language and ideas in biblical translations, literature and archaeology.
| Author | : Karl P. Donfried |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780802842657 |
Rome, as the center of the first-century world, was home to numerous ethnic groups, among which were both Jews and Christians. The dealings of the Roman government with these two groups, and their dealings with each other, are the focus of this book.t
| Author | : Roman Garrison |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0826437869 |
In this volume of essays the Graeco-Roman background and context of early Christianity are explored for significant parallels. From the athlete metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9 to the role of Aphrodite as the goddess of love and sexuality, the important cultural symbols and terminology that the first Christians employed are examined. Garrison maintains that the Graeco-Roman setting of early Christianity is essential to our understanding of the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers.
| Author | : Jan Willem van Henten |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2012-11-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004237003 |
In Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts experts from various fields analyze the process of transformation of early Christian ethics because of the ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman and Christian traditions.
| Author | : Teresa Morgan |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 639 |
| Release | : 2015-05-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0191036099 |
This study investigates why 'faith' (pistis/fides) was so important to early Christians that the concept and praxis dominated the writings of the New Testament. It argues that such a study must be interdisciplinary, locating emerging Christianities in the social practices and mentalités of contemporary Judaism and the early Roman empire. This can, therefore, equally be read as a study of the operation of pistis/fides in the world of the early Roman principate, taking one but relatively well-attested cult as a case study in how micro-societies within that world could treat it distinctively. Drawing on recent work in sociology and economics, the book traces the varying shapes taken by pistis/fides in Greek and Roman human and divine-human relationships: whom or what is represented as easy or difficult to trust or believe in; where pistis/fides is 'deferred' and 'reified' in practices such as oaths and proofs; how pistis/fides is related to fear, doubt and scepticism; and which foundations of pistis/fides are treated as more or less secure. The book then traces the evolution of representations of human and divine-human pistis in the Septuagint, before turning to pistis/pisteuein in New Testament writings and their role in the development of early Christologies (incorporating a new interpretation of pistis Christou) and ecclesiologies. It argues for the integration of the study of pistis/pisteuein with that of New Testament ethics. It explores the interiority of Graeco-Roman and early Christian pistis/fides. Finally, it discusses eschatological pistis and the shape of the divine-human community in the eschatological kingdom.
