Early Christ Groups And Greco Roman Associations

Author : Richard S. Ascough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666709018

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Over the past two and a half decades there has been an increasing interest in how the data from the associations—known primarily from inscriptions and papyri—can help scholars better understand the development of Christ groups in the first and second centuries. Richard Ascough’s work has been at the forefront of promoting the associations and applying insights from inscriptions and papyri to understanding early Christian texts. This book collects together his most important contributions to the scholarly trajectory as it developed over a two-decade period. A fresh introduction orients the sixteen previously published articles and essays, which are arranged into three sections; the first dealing with associations as a model for Christ groups, the second focused on how associations and Christ groups interacted over recruitment, and the third on two key elements of group life: meals and memorializing the dead.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 148131517X

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Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard S. Ascough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666709032

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Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations by Richard S. Ascough Pdf

Over the past two and a half decades there has been an increasing interest in how the data from the associations--known primarily from inscriptions and papyri--can help scholars better understand the development of Christ groups in the first and second centuries. Richard Ascough's work has been at the forefront of promoting the associations and applying insights from inscriptions and papyri to understanding early Christian texts. This book collects together his most important contributions to the scholarly trajectory as it developed over a two-decade period. A fresh introduction orients the sixteen previously published articles and essays, which are arranged into three sections; the first dealing with associations as a model for Christ groups, the second focused on how associations and Christ groups interacted over recruitment, and the third on two key elements of group life: meals and memorializing the dead.

Author : John S. Kloppenborg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 9780300217049

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Christ’s Associations by John S. Kloppenborg Pdf

A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in small face-to-face meetings and provided the principal context for cultic and social interactions for their members. Unlike most other groups, however, about which we have data on their rules of membership, financial management, and organizational hierarchy, we have very little information about early Christ groups. Drawing on data about associative practices throughout the ancient world, this innovative study offers new insight into the structure and mission of the early Christ groups. John S. Kloppenborg situates the Christ associations within the broader historical context of the ancient Mediterranean and reveals that they were probably smaller than previously believed and did not have a uniform system of governance, and that the attraction of Christ groups was based more on practice than theological belief.

Author : Richard S. Ascough,Philip A. Harland,John S. Kloppenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2012
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 1602583749

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Associations in the Greco-Roman World by Richard S. Ascough,Philip A. Harland,John S. Kloppenborg Pdf

Associations in the Greco-Roman World provides students and scholars with a clear and readable resource for greater understanding of the social, cultural, and religious life across the ancient Mediterranean. The authors provide new translations of inscriptions and papyri from hundreds of associations, alongside descriptions of more than two dozen archaeological remains of building sites. Complemented by a substantial annotated bibliography and accompanying images, this sourcebook fills many gaps and allows for future exploration in studies of the Greco-Roman religious world, particularly the nature of Judean and Christian groups at that time.

Author : John S. Kloppenborg,Richard S. Ascough
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 9783110253450

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Greco-Roman Associations by John S. Kloppenborg,Richard S. Ascough Pdf

Author : Jens Schröter,Simon Butticaz,Andreas Dettwiler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110533781

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Receptions of Paul in Early Christianity by Jens Schröter,Simon Butticaz,Andreas Dettwiler Pdf

The volume deals with interpretations of Paul, his person and his letters, in various early Christian writings. Some of those, written in the name of Paul, became part of the New Testament, others are included among „Ancient Christian Apocrypha", still others belong to the collection called „The Apostolic Fathers". Impacts of Paul are also discernible in early collections of his letters which became an important part of the New Testament canon. This process, resulting in the „canonical Paul", is also considered in this collection.

Author : Richard Last
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107100633

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The Pauline Church and the Corinthian Ekklēsia by Richard Last Pdf

This innovative volume is the first English-language monograph to compare Paul's Corinthian church with contemporary cult groups from Mediterranean antiquity.

Author : Aaron Ricker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567694010

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Ancient Letters and the Purpose of Romans by Aaron Ricker Pdf

Aaron Ricker locates the purpose of Romans in its function as a tool of community identity definition. Ricker employs a comparative analysis of the ways in which community identity definition is performed in first-century association culture, including several ancient network letters comparable to Romans. Ricker's examination of the community advice found in Rom 12-15 reveals in this new context an ancient example of the ways in which an inscribed addressee community can be invited in a letter to see and comport itself as a “proper” association network community. The ideal community addressed in the letter to the Romans is defined as properly unified and orderly, as well accommodating to – and clearly distinct from – cultures “outside.” Finally, it is defined as linked to a proper network with recognised leadership (i.e., the inscribed Paul of the letter and his network). Paul's letter to the Romans is in many ways a baffling and extraordinary document. In terms of its community-defining functions and strategies, however, Ricker shows its purpose to be perfectly clear and understandable.

Author : Soham Al-Suadi,Richard S. Ascough,Richard E. DeMaris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000534740

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Ritual, Emotion, and Materiality in the Early Christian World by Soham Al-Suadi,Richard S. Ascough,Richard E. DeMaris Pdf

This volume advances our understanding of early Christianity as a lived religion by approaching it through its rites, the emotions and affects surrounding those rites, and the material setting for the practice of them. The connections between emotions and ritual, between rites and their materiality, and between emotions and their physical manifestation in ancient Mediterranean culture have been inadequately explored as yet, especially with regard to early Christianity and its water and dining rites. Readers will find all three areas—ritual, emotion, and materiality—engaged in this exemplary interdisciplinary study, which provides fresh insights into early Christianity and its world. Ritual, Emotion, and Materiality in the Early Christian World will be of special interest to interdisciplinary-minded researchers, seminarians, and students who are attentive to theory and method, and those with an interest in the New Testament and earliest Christianity. It will also appeal to those working on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman religion, emotion, and ritual from a comparative standpoint.

Author : John S. Kloppenborg,Stephen G. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134778577

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Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World by John S. Kloppenborg,Stephen G. Wilson Pdf

Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, this collection addresses the question of what can legitimately be termed a 'voluntary association'. Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays show how the various associations were constituted, the extent of their membership, why people joined them and what they contributed to the social fabric of urban life. For many, those groups were the most significant feature of social life beyond family and work. All of them provided an outlet of religious as well as social commitments. Also included are studies of the way in which early Jewish and Christian groups adopted and adapted the models of private association available to them and how this affected their social status and role. Finally, the situation of women is discussed, as some of the voluntary associations offered them a more significant recognition than they received in society at large.

Author : Dr. Benedikt Eckhardt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004407602

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Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities by Dr. Benedikt Eckhardt Pdf

In 'Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities', Benedikt Eckhardt brings together a group of experts to investigate a problem of historical categorization. Traditionally, scholars have either presupposed that Jewish groups were "Greco-Roman Associations" like others or have treated them in isolation from other groups. Attempts to begin a cross-disciplinary dialogue about the presuppositions and ultimate aims of the respective approaches have shown that much preliminary work on categories is necessary. This book explores the methodological dividing lines, based on the common-sense assumption that different questions require different solutions. Re-introducing historical differentiation into a field that has been dominated by abstractions, it provides the debate with a new foundation. Case studies highlight the problems and advantages of different approaches.

Author : James R. Harrison
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161546150

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Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit by James R. Harrison Pdf

"In this study, James R. Harrison compares the modern cult of celebrity to the quest for glory in late republican and early imperial society. He shows how Paul's ethic of humility, based upon the crucified Christ, stands out in a world obsessed with mutual comparison, boasting, and self-sufficiency." --

Author : James R. Harrison,L. L. Welborn
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144199

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The First Urban Churches 5 by James R. Harrison,L. L. Welborn Pdf

A fresh examination of early Christianity by an international team of New Testament and classical scholars Volume 5 of The First Urban Churches investigates the urban context of Christian churches in first-century Roman Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea. Building on the methodologies introduced in the first volume and supplementing the in-depth studies of Corinth, Ephesus, and Philippi (vols. 2-4), essays in this volume challenge readers to reexamine preconceived understandings of the early church and to grapple with the meaning and context of Christianity in its first-century Roman colonial context. Features: Analysis of urban evidence found in inscriptions, papyri, archaeological remains, coins, and iconography Proposed reconstructions of the past and its social, religious, and political significance A nuanced, informed portrait of ancient urban life in the cities of the Lycus Valley

Author : John S. Kloppenborg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300249309

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Christ’s Associations by John S. Kloppenborg Pdf

A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in small face-to-face meetings and provided the principal context for cultic and social interactions for their members. Unlike most other groups, however, about which we have data on their rules of membership, financial management, and organizational hierarchy, we have very little information about early Christ groups. Drawing on data about associative practices throughout the ancient world, this innovative study offers new insight into the structure and mission of the early Christ groups. John S. Kloppenborg situates the Christ associations within the broader historical context of the ancient Mediterranean and reveals that they were probably smaller than previously believed and did not have a uniform system of governance, and that the attraction of Christ groups was based more on practice than theological belief.