T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament

T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament
Author: J. Brian Tucker
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567017605

Combining the insights of many leading New Testament scholars writing on the use of social identity theory this new reference work provides a comprehensive handbook to the construction of social identity in the New Testament. Part one examines key methodological issues and the ways in which scholars have viewed and studied social identity, including different theoretical approaches, and core areas or topics which may be used in the study of social identity, such as food, social memory, and ancient media culture. Part two presents worked examples and in-depth textual studies covering core passages from each of the New Testament books, as they relate to the construction of social identity. Adopting a case-study approach, in line with sociological methods the volume builds a picture of how identity was structured in the earliest Christ-movement. Contributors include; Philip Esler, Warren Carter, Paul Middleton, Rafael Rodriquez, and Robert Brawley.

T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament

T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament
Author: J. Brian Tucker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567667855

The T & T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive Bible resource that highlights the way the NT seeks to form the social identity of the members of the earliest Christ-movement. By drawing on the interpretive resources of social-scientific theories-especially those related to the formation of identity-interpreters generate new questions that open fruitful identity-related avenues into the text. It provides helpful introductions to each NT book that focus on various social dimensions of the text as well as a commentary structure that illuminates the text as a work of social influence. The commentary offers methodologically informed discussions of difficult and disputed passages and highlights cultural contexts in theoretically informed ways-drawing on resources from social anthropology, historical sociology, or social identity theory. The innovative but careful scholarship of these writers, most of whom have published monographs on some aspect of social identity within the New Testament, brings to the fore often overlooked social and communal aspects inherent in the NT discourse. The net result is a more concrete articulation of some of the every-day lived experiences of members of the Christ-movement within the Roman Empire, while also offering further insight into the relationship between existing and new identities that produced diverse expressions of the Christ-movement during the first century. The SICNT shows that identity-formation is at the heart of the NT and it offers insights for leaders of faith communities addressing these issues in contemporary contexts.

T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament

T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament
Author: J. Brian Tucker
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567001180

Combining the insights of many leading New Testament scholars writing on the use of social identity theory this new reference work provides a comprehensive handbook to the construction of social identity in the New Testament. Part one examines key methodological issues and the ways in which scholars have viewed and studied social identity, including different theoretical approaches, and core areas or topics which may be used in the study of social identity, such as food, social memory, and ancient media culture. Part two presents worked examples and in-depth textual studies covering core passages from each of the New Testament books, as they relate to the construction of social identity. Adopting a case-study approach, in line with sociological methods the volume builds a picture of how identity was structured in the earliest Christ-movement. Contributors include; Philip Esler, Warren Carter, Paul Middleton, Rafael Rodriquez, and Robert Brawley.

T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament

T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament
Author: J. Brian Tucker
Publisher: T&T Clark
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2019-12-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567667861

The T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive Bible resource that highlights the way the New Testament seeks to form the social identity of the members of the earliest Christ-movement. By drawing on the interpretive resources of social scientific theories new questions are asked of the New Testament which results in new answers to many established questions. The commentary provides helpful overviews of each New Testament text that focus on the various social dimensions of the text. It also includes an outline of each text that offers a concise picture of that text as a work of social influence. The volume offers methodologically informed discussions of difficult and disputed passages and highlights the cultural context of those passages in a theoretically informed way. The contributors draw on the resources of social anthropology, historical sociology, and social identity theory and build on the combination of social history and social theory in order to bring to the fore often overlooked aspects of the New Testament. Charts, maps, inscriptions, and other artefacts explain more concretely some of the every-day lived experiences of the members of the Christ-movement under the Roman Empire and offer further insight into the complex interaction of existing and new identities that produced Christianity. The commentary shows that identity formation is at the heart of what the New Testament is all about and offers insights for scholars, students and leaders of faith communities wrestling with those issues today.

T&T Clark Handbook of the Old Testament

T&T Clark Handbook of the Old Testament
Author: Jan Christian Gertz
Publisher: T&T Clark
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567253682

Beginning with methods and sources, this Handbook looks at the Biblical text, archaeology, other texts, and iconography. It explores varying exegetical methods, including historical criticism, canonical approach, feminist, social scientific and liberation theology. Methods in archaeology, Hebrew epigraphic and iconography are also covered. The second section is devoted to the history and religious history of Ancient Israel. Introductory matters, such as fundamental terminology and definitions, ethnic identity, ancestors and the dead, geography and time reckoning are explicated before the book moves on to a historical survey from the Iron Age (c. 1200 BCE) to the early Roman period (ending about 63 CE). The heart of the book is a detailed survey of the Hebrew canonical books, section by section and book by book. The discussion for each book includes: biblical presentation and content; problems arising from the history of literary analysis and research; the origin and growth of the writing; the theology; and notes on reception history. This book will provide students with everything they need to study the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament

T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament
Author: J. Brian Tucker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 841
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567693317

The T & T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive Bible resource that highlights the way the NT seeks to form the social identity of the members of the earliest Christ-movement. By drawing on the interpretive resources of social-scientific theories-especially those related to the formation of identity-interpreters generate new questions that open fruitful identity-related avenues into the text. It provides helpful introductions to each NT book that focus on various social dimensions of the text as well as a commentary structure that illuminates the text as a work of social influence. The commentary offers methodologically informed discussions of difficult and disputed passages and highlights cultural contexts in theoretically informed ways-drawing on resources from social anthropology, historical sociology, or social identity theory. The innovative but careful scholarship of these writers, most of whom have published monographs on some aspect of social identity within the New Testament, brings to the fore often overlooked social and communal aspects inherent in the NT discourse. The net result is a more concrete articulation of some of the every-day lived experiences of members of the Christ-movement within the Roman Empire, while also offering further insight into the relationship between existing and new identities that produced diverse expressions of the Christ-movement during the first century. The SICNT shows that identity-formation is at the heart of the NT and it offers insights for leaders of faith communities addressing these issues in contemporary contexts.

T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and the Biblical World

T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Bible and the Biblical World
Author: Sharon Betsworth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 056767259X

This ground-breaking volume examines the presentation and role of children in the ancient world, and specifically in ancient Jewish and Christian texts. With carefully commissioned chapters that follow chronological and canonical progression, a sequential reading of this book enables deeper appreciation of how understandings of children change over time. Divided into four sections, this handbook first offers an overview of key methodological approaches employed in the study of children in the biblical world, and the texts at hand. Three further sections examine crucial texts in which children or discussions of childhood are featured; presented along chronological lines, with sections on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, the Intertestamental Literature, and the New Testament and Early Christian Apocrypha. Relevant not only to biblical studies but also cross-disciplinary scholars interested in children in antiquity.

Luke: A Social Identity Commentary

Luke: A Social Identity Commentary
Author: Robert L. Brawley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567669408

In this commentary, Robert L. Brawley provides comprehensive coverage of issues and concerns related to Luke from the perspective of social identity. He argues that the Gospel of Luke is strongly concerned with the formation of identity from the very start of the text, which aims at the creation of a socially responsible community in continuity with that community's collective past. Brawley establishes a theoretical framework that focuses his interpretation - ranging from the narrative world and sociological issues to postcolonialism and hierarchies of dominance - and uses these perspectives to provide a clear overview of historical and critical issues related to an understanding of Luke. He then provides a thorough outline of and commentary on the text of the Gospel. Brawley's engagement with the text serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, clergy, and others interested in their own discoveries of the resources of Luke.

Exclusive Inclusivity

Exclusive Inclusivity
Author: Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567122441

The sixth and fifth centuries BCE were a time of constant re-identifications within Judean communities, both in exile and in the land; it was a time when Babylonian exilic ideologies captured a central position in Judean (Jewish) history and literature at the expense of silencing the voices of any other Judean communities. Proceeding from the later biblical evidence to the earlier, from the Persian period sources (Ezra–Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Deutero-Isaiah) to the Neo-Babylonian prophecy of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, Exclusive Inclusivity explores the ideological transformations within these writings using the sociological rubric of exclusivity. Social psychology categories of ethnicity and group identity provide the analytical framework to clarify that Ezekiel, the prophet of the Jehoiachin Exiles, was the earliest constructor of these exclusive ideologies. Thus, already from the Neo-Babylonian period, definitions of otherness were being set to shape the self-understanding of each of the post-586 communities, in Judah (Yehud) and in the Babylonian Diaspora, as the exclusive People of God. As each community reidentified itself as the in-group, arguments of otherness were adduced to diregard and delegitimize the sister community. The polemics against “foreigners” in the Persian period literature are the ideological successors to the earlier ideological conflict.

T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World

T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World
Author: Soham Al-Suadi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567666417

This handbook situates early Christian meals in their broader context, with a focus on the core topics that aid understanding of Greco-Roman meal practice, and how this relates to Christian origins. In addition to looking at the broader Hellenistic context, the contributors explain the unique nature of Christian meals, and what they reveal about early Christian communities and the development of Christian identity. Beginning with Hellenistic documents and authors before moving on to the New Testament material itself, according to genre - Gospels, Acts, Letters, Apocalyptic Literature - the handbook culminates with a section on the wider resources that describe daily life in the period, such as medical documents and inscriptions. The literary, historical, theological and philosophical aspects of these resources are also considered, including such aspects as the role of gender during meals; issues of monotheism and polytheism that arise from the structure of the meal; how sacrifice is understood in different meal practices; power dynamics during the meal and issues of inclusion and exclusion at meals.