Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews
Title | Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Barclay |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 080287374X |
Seminal essays from a leading New Testament scholar For the past twenty years, John Barclay has researched and written on the social history of early Christianity and the life of Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora. In this collection of nineteen noteworthy essays, he examines points of comparison between the early churches and the Diaspora synagogues in the urban Roman world of the first century. With an eye to such matters as food, family, money, circumcision, Spirit, age, and death, Barclay examines key Pauline texts, the writings of Josephus, and other sources, investigating the construction of early Christian identity and comparing the experience of Paul's churches with that of Diaspora Jewish communities scattered throughout the Roman Empire.
Paul and the Politics of Diaspora
Title | Paul and the Politics of Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Charles |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1451488025 |
Applies the insights of contemporary diaspora studies to address much-debated questions about Paul's identity as a diaspora Jew, his complicated relationship with a highly symbolized homeland, the motives of his daily work, and the ambivalence of his rhetoric.
Paul the Jew under Roman Rule
Title | Paul the Jew under Roman Rule PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Elliott |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2024-09-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1666752673 |
Some of the most heated contests around the apostle Paul today concern the effort to understand him wholly “within Judaism,” and the effort to interpret him over against the culture and ideology of the early Roman Empire. In this collection of essays, Neil Elliott shows that these two conversations belong together and must be resolved together, by understanding Paul as a Jew living out Israel’s ancient hopes under the pressures of Roman imperial power.
What are They Saying about the Formation of Pauline Churches?
Title | What are They Saying about the Formation of Pauline Churches? PDF eBook |
Author | Richard S. Ascough |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0809137682 |
The early church was made up of a myriad of local churches, each with different settings, problems and ideas regarding how its community should be structured. What Are They Saying About the Formation of Pauline Churches? surveys the different models available in the Greco-Roman period for understanding how Paul's Christian groups ordered their communities. There are four models: the synagogue, the philosophical school, the ancient mystery cult and the voluntary association. Dr. Ascough devotes a chapter to each model and to the authors who use it to understand Pauline churches. The archaeological and literary data are coordinated with data from the Pauline letters to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the models for understanding these churches. In the end, all four models are helpful and no one model is adequate to explain all the aspects of each Pauline church. This is a superb book for those seeking an overall view of the debate on the culture and organization of the first Christian communities. +
The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire
Title | The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Lieu |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135081883 |
In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the world-wide power of the pagan Romans and later on the emergence of Christianity as an Empire-wide religion. How they coped with these dramatic changes and how they influenced the new forms of religious life that emerged in this period provide the main themes of The Jews Among Pagans and Christians. Essays by the leading scholars in the field together with the introduction by the editors, offer new approaches to understanding the role of Judaism and the pattern of religious interaction characteristic of the period.
Jewish and Pauline Studies
Title | Jewish and Pauline Studies PDF eBook |
Author | William David Davies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Diasporas and Exiles
Title | Diasporas and Exiles PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Wettstein |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2002-10-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520228642 |
"Rarely have I encountered a collection of essays that coheres so well around an overarching theme. This will be an important resource."—Hillel J. Kieval, author of Languages of Community