Foreign but Familiar Gods
Title | Foreign but Familiar Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Allan Kauppi |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2006-08-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567641414 |
Through a close and informative reading of seven key texts in Acts, Kauppi analyses the appearances of Graeco-Roman religion, offering evidence of practices including divination and oracles, ruler cult and civic foundation myth. Foreign But Familiar Gods then uses a combination of these scriptural texts and other contemporary evidence (including archaeological and literary material) to suggest that one of Luke's subsidiary themes is to contrast Graeco-Roman and Christian religious conceptualizations and practices.
Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity
Title | Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Radka Fialová |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2022-11-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110796406 |
Papers collected in this volume try to illuminate various aspects of philosophical theology dealt with by different Jewish and early Christian authors and texts (e.g. the Acts of the Apostles, Philo, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus), rooted in and influenced by the Hellenistic religious, cultural, and philosophical context, and they also focus on the literary and cultural traditions of Hellenized Judaism and its reception (e.g. Sibylline Oracles, Prayer of Manasseh), including material culture ("Elephant Mosaic Panel" from Huqoq synagogue). By studying the Hellenistic influences on early Christianity, both in response to and in reaction against early Hellenized Judaism, the volume intends not only to better understand Christianity, as a religious and historical phenomenon with a profound impact on the development of European civilization, but also to better comprehend Hellenism and its consequences which have often been relegated to the realm of political history.
Luke’s Christology of Divine Identity
Title | Luke’s Christology of Divine Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Henrichs-Tarasenkova |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2015-11-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 056766290X |
Henrichs-Tarasenkova argues against a long tradition of scholars about how best to represent Luke's Christology. When read against the backdrop of ancient ways of constructing personal identity, key texts in the Lukan narrative demonstrate that Luke indirectly characterizes Jesus as the one God of Israel together with YHWH. Henrichs-Tarasenkova employs a narrative approach that takes into consideration recent studies of narrative and history and enables her to construct characters of YHWH and Jesus within the Lukan narrative. She employs Richard Bauckham's concept of divine identity that she evaluates against her study of how one might speak of personal identity in the Greco-Roman world. She engages in close reading of key texts to demonstrate how Luke speaks of YHWH as God in order to demonstrate that Luke-Acts upholds a traditional Jewish view that only the God of Israel is the one living God and to eliminate false expectations for how Luke should speak of Jesus as God. This analysis establishes how Luke binds Jesus' identity to the divine identity of YHWH and concludes that the Lukan narrative, in fact, does portray Jesus as God when it shows that Jesus shares YHWH's divine identity.
Reading Corinthians and Philippians within Judaism
Title | Reading Corinthians and Philippians within Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Mark D. Nanos |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2017-08-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1532617585 |
The commentary tradition regarding 1 Corinthians unanimously identifies the "weak" as Christ-followers whose faith was not yet sufficient to indulge in the eating of idol food with indifference, as if ideally Paul wanted them to become "strong" enough to do so. Commentaries also do not hesitate to explain that Paul advised the Corinthians that he behaved like non-Jews (e.g., ate idol food) in order to win non-Jews to Christ, convinced that he was free from any obligation to observe Jewish covenantal behavior--except when he expediently chose to mimic Jewish behavior in order to win Jews to Christ. Similarly, commentators continue to conclude that in Philippians Paul called Jews "dogs" for upholding the value of undertaking circumcision, and that he renounced such identification as "mutilation." None of these interpretations likely represent what Paul meant originally, according to Nanos. Each essay explains why, and provides new alternatives for re-reading Paul's language "within Judaism." In this process, Nanos combines investigations of relevant elements from Jewish sources and from various Cynic and other Greco-Roman contemporaries, as well as the New Testament.
Ethnic Negotiations
Title | Ethnic Negotiations PDF eBook |
Author | Eric D. Barreto |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9783161506093 |
.".. slightly revised version of a doctoral dissertation ... Emory University on April 12, 2010" p. [v].
The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan
Title | The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan PDF eBook |
Author | Rochelle Tobias |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2006-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801882906 |
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Publications in Classical Philology
Title | Publications in Classical Philology PDF eBook |
Author | University of California, Berkeley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Classical philology |
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