Early Christian Encounters With Town And Countryside

Author : Markus Tiwald,Jürgen Zangenberg
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783647564944

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Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside by Markus Tiwald,Jürgen Zangenberg Pdf

Ever since Jesus walked the hills of Galilee and Paul travelled the roads of Asia Minor and Greece, Christianity has shown a remarkable ability to adapt itself to various social and cultural environments. Recent research has demonstrated that these environments can only be very insufficiently termed as "rural" or "urban". Neither was Jesus' Galilee only rural, nor Paul's Asia only "urban". On the background of ongoing research on the diversity of social environments in the Early Empire, this volume will focus on various early Christian "worlds" as witnessed in canonical and non-canonical texts. How did Early Christians experience and react to "rural" and "urban" life? What were the mechanisms behind this adaptability? Papers will analyze the relation between urban Christian beginnings and the role of the rural Jesus-tradition. In what sense did the image of Jesus, the "Galilean village Jew", change when his message was carried into the cities of the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Athens or Rome? Papers will not only deal with various personalities or literary works whose various attitudes towards urban life became formative for future Christianity. They will also explore the different local milieus that demonstrate the wide range of Christian cultural perspectives.

Author : W. H. C. Frend
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036240484

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Town and Country in the Early Christian Centuries by W. H. C. Frend Pdf

Author : Alan Cadwallader,James R. Harrison,Angela Standhartinger,L. L. Welborn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695963

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The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity by Alan Cadwallader,James R. Harrison,Angela Standhartinger,L. L. Welborn Pdf

A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a “state-of-question” introduction by Thomas Robinson, assessing the interrelation of the village and city with the rise of early Christianity. Alan Cadwallader then articulates a methodology for future New Testament studies on this topic, employing a series of case studies to illustrate the methodological issues raised. From there contributors explore three areas of village life in different geographical areas, by means of a series of studies, written by experts in each discipline. They discuss the ancient near east (Egypt and Israel), mainland and Isthmian Greece, Asia Minor, and the Italian Peninsula. This geographic focus sheds light upon the villages associated with the biblical cities (Israel; Corinth; Galatia; Ephesus; Philippi; Thessalonica; Rome), including potential insights into the rural nature of the churches located there. A final section of thematic studies explores central issues of local village life (indigenous and imperial cults, funerary culture, and agricultural and economic life).

Author : William Hugh Clifford Frend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174310635

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Town and Country in the Early Christian Centuries by William Hugh Clifford Frend Pdf

Author : Lewis Ayres,H. Clifton Ward
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110608632

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The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual by Lewis Ayres,H. Clifton Ward Pdf

The study of the growth of early Christian intellectual life is of perennial interest to scholars. This volume advances discussion by exploring ways in which Christian writers in the second century did not so much draw on Hellenistic intellectual traditions and models, as they were inevitably embedded in those traditions. The volume contains papers from a seminar in Rome in 2016 that explored the nature and activity of the emergent Christian intellectual between the late first century and the early third century. The papers show that Hellenistic scholarly cultures were the milieu within which Christian modes of thinking developed. At the same time the essays show how Christian thinkers made use of the cultures of which they were part in distinctive ways, adapting existing traditions because of Christian beliefs and needs. The figures studied include Papias from the early part of the second-century, Tatian, Irenaeus, and Clement of Alexandria from the later second century. One paper on Eusebius of Caesarea explores the Christian adaptation of Hellenistic scholarly methods of commentary. Christian figures are studied in the light of debates within Classics and Jewish studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004524866

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The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians by Anonim Pdf

This volume honors L. Michael White, whose work has been influential in exploring the “social worlds” of ancient Jews and Christians. Fifteen original essays highlight his scholarly contributions while also signaling new directions in the study of ancient Mediterranean religions.

Author : Andreas J. Köstenberger,Gregory Goswell
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433569722

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Biblical Theology by Andreas J. Köstenberger,Gregory Goswell Pdf

A Clear, Careful Textbook to Help Bible Students Interpret Scripture Pastors, thoughtful Christians, and students of Scripture must learn how to carefully read and understand the Bible, but it can be difficult to know where to start. In this clear, logical guide, Andreas J. Köstenberger and Gregory Goswell explain how to interpret Scripture from three effective viewpoints: canonical, thematic, and ethical. Biblical Theology is arranged book by book from the Old Testament (using the Hebrew order) through the New Testament. For each text, Köstenberger and Goswell analyze key biblical-theological themes, discussing the book's place in the overall storyline of Scripture. Next, they focus on the ethical component, showing how God seeks to transform the lives of his people through the inspired text. Following this technique, readers will better understand the theology of each book and its author. A Clearly Written Guide on Biblical Theology: Analyzes all 66 books of the Bible, with emphasis on the coherent, unified framework of Scripture Helps Readers Thoughtfully Interpret Scripture: Provides an essential foundation for a valid theological understanding of Scripture that informs Christian doctrine and ethics Ideal for Pastors, Academics, and Other Serious Students of Scripture: This clear, thoroughly researched guide can be used as a textbook in seminary classes studying biblical theology or the Old and New Testaments

Author : Alan H. Cadwallader
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647500027

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Colossae, Colossians, Philemon by Alan H. Cadwallader Pdf

The material culture of Colossae is here for the first time given as full a collation as possible to the present day. 38 inscriptions, 88 coins and 49 testimonia are brought together in the context of a thorough overview of the site of Colossae. These include evidence that has been thought lost or has been overlooked or misinterpreted or has only recently been discovered. New readings, insights and analyses of the material evidence are brought into a highly creative exchange with the two letters of the Second Testament connected with the site. The texts thereby become additional evidence for an appreciation of the life of a city in the first two centuries of the Common Era. The fullest collation of evidence for the ancient Phrygian city in the Greco-Roman period was the coin catalogue assembled by Hans von Aulock (1987). The most recent catalogue of the inscriptions of Colossae was published by William Calder and William Buckler in 1939. There has never been a full inventory of ancient writings that bear witness to the site. Alan H. Cadwallader in his volume not only updates this material by subjecting it to thorough, critical analysis in the light of comparative evidence from across the Roman province of Asia and the Mediterranean world. New discoveries from the site and from museums and collections in the United Kingdom, Europe, Russia, Australia and the United States are introduced. Into this assemblage and interpretation are brought the letters to the Colossians and Philemon in the Second Testament writings of the Christian Church. For the first time, the letters are released to be players in the highly competitive environment of a city negotiating its way in the new realities of imperial Rome. Here the letters and their recipients become participants in the society of the day, contributing, critiquing and struggling to forge an identity for the Christ followers within that world. Echoes of the gymnasium, gladiatorial spectacles, cosmological speculations, religious devotion and sanction, family structures, commerce and industry, struggles for justice, intercity competition and legal negotiations are found in the letters, echoes that witness to their participation in the life of Colossae. This is a radical new approach, incorporating the turn to material culture as the embedding of literature and its consumers rather than an embellishing backdrop.

Author : Dennis Mizzi,Tine Rasalle,Matthew J. Grey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004540828

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Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean by Dennis Mizzi,Tine Rasalle,Matthew J. Grey Pdf

This volume brings together a series of innovative studies on Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Palestine, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient synagogues in honor of renowned archaeologist Jodi Magness.

Author : Eric V. Cline
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666710540

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Revelation Realist by Eric V. Cline Pdf

Like the rest of the Bible, Revelation is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction for righteousness. God’s revelation of Jesus is not coded or a maze of literature with secrets for only theologians to decipher. The Holy Spirit makes the central message of the Bible available to everyone. Revelation uses literary devices within the context of a message to communicate an absolute truth. Open this book, enter this symbolic but authentic world, and be transported by all the visions of Revelation. Warning: you may be shocked out of spiritual slumber.

Author : Ben F. van Veen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666762952

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Oral Performance and the Veil of Text by Ben F. van Veen Pdf

It is common opinion in biblical scholarship that the biblical documents functioned in a sociocultural context dominated by the spoken word. Detextification is the result of addressing the complex relation between this formally acknowledged functioning in its original oral delivery and the daily praxis of biblical scholarship in which these documents function as autonomous texts in an ever-expanding universe of texts. The argument in this book is that in addition to acknowledging the difference in media (oral performance there and then versus reading text here and now), it is crucial to differentiate and explicate the mindsets behind these media. A literate reader in the present structures thought, vis-à-vis text, differently from someone intensively formed by oral-aural communication, in the moment of exposure to a performing orator. The latter perspective was Paul’s in the process of his letter composition. Therefore, this is a leading question in detextification: How can a contemporary biblical scholar relate to the text of Paul’s letters in such a way as to understand how the apostle envisioned his original addressees structuring their thoughts during the event of a letter’s oral-aural delivery? Two test cases are provided from the Letter to the Galatians (Gal 2–3).

Author : Thomas Arthur Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 0190620579

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Who Were the First Christians? by Thomas Arthur Robinson Pdf

Thomas Robinson argues that popular views of early Christian growth--one concentrated in urban environments--would nearly saturate every urban area of the entire Roman Empire with Christians, leaving no room for Jews or pagans. It is a scenario that simply does not work. But where does the solution lie? Robinson argues that the urban thesis is defective, and the neglected countryside must now be considered in any reconstruction of early Christian growth.

Author : Thomas A. Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190620554

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Who Were the First Christians? by Thomas A. Robinson Pdf

It has been widely assumed that there were 6 million Christians (or 10% of the population of the Roman Empire) by around the year 300. The largely-unexamined consensus view is also that Christianity was an urban movement until the conversion of Emperor Constantine. On close examination, it appears that these two popular views would nearly saturate every urban area of the entire Roman Empire with Christians, leaving no room for Jews or pagans. In Who Were the First Christians?, Thomas Robinson shows that scenario simply does not work. But where does the solution lie? Were there many fewer Christians in the Roman world than we have thought? Was the Roman world much more urbanized? Or, is the urban thesis defective, so that the neglected countryside must now be considered in any reconstruction of early Christian growth? Further, what was the makeup of the typical Christian congregation? Was it a lower-class movement? Or was it a movement of the upwardly mobile middle-class? Arguing that more attention needs to be given to the countryside and to the considerable contingent of the marginal and the rustic within urban populations, this revisionist work argues persuasively that the urban thesis should be dismantled or profoundly revised and the growth and the complexion of the early Christian movement seen in a substantially different light.

Author : Alan Cadwallader,James R. Harrison,Angela Standhartinger,L. L. Welborn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695987

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The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity by Alan Cadwallader,James R. Harrison,Angela Standhartinger,L. L. Welborn Pdf

A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a “state-of-question” introduction by Thomas Robinson, assessing the interrelation of the village and city with the rise of early Christianity. Alan Cadwallader then articulates a methodology for future New Testament studies on this topic, employing a series of case studies to illustrate the methodological issues raised. From there contributors explore three areas of village life in different geographical areas, by means of a series of studies, written by experts in each discipline. They discuss the ancient near east (Egypt and Israel), mainland and Isthmian Greece, Asia Minor, and the Italian Peninsula. This geographic focus sheds light upon the villages associated with the biblical cities (Israel; Corinth; Galatia; Ephesus; Philippi; Thessalonica; Rome), including potential insights into the rural nature of the churches located there. A final section of thematic studies explores central issues of local village life (indigenous and imperial cults, funerary culture, and agricultural and economic life).

Author : Ute E. Eisen,Heidrun Elisabeth Mader
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647573175

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Talking God in Society by Ute E. Eisen,Heidrun Elisabeth Mader Pdf

Peter Lampe's work has covered a wide range of fields, the common denominator being his interest in contextualizing belief systems. Mirroring his multifaced work, the authors pursue his interest from different interdisciplinary angles, addressing the interdependence between religious expressions and their situations or contexts. The application of theoretical models to texts examples flanks the inspiring theoretical – epistemological and methodological – reflections. Studies in socio-economic and political history adjoin archaeological, epigraphic, papyrological and iconographic investigations. (Social-)psychological interpretations of texts complement rhetorical analyses. The hermeneutical reception of biblical materials in, for example, the Koran and Christian Chinese or Orthodox contexts, as well as in religious education and homiletics, rounds off the volumes.