Revelation And Mystery In Ancient Judaism And Pauline Christianity

Author : Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608991464

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Revelation and Mystery in Ancient Judaism and Pauline Christianity by Markus Bockmuehl Pdf

"The theme of revealed heavenly mysteries was a commonplace in Judaism, from which it passed on to Christianity. Markus Bockmuehl outlines how this theme developed, by showing where ideas of revelation and mystery coalesce. . . . An interesting and very thorough study."--Journal of Biblical Literature"A thoughtful and illuminating study of a subject which, rather surprisingly in the light of its centrality to the question of Christian origins, has not hitherto been investigated in detail. Whereas both 'revelation' and 'mystery' have been studied separately in the context of early Jewish and Christian literature, Bockmuehl's original contribution is to examine the interconnectedness of the two ideas."--Journal of Jewish Studies"This book is an excellent contribution to biblical scholarship. It synthesizes the light that a biblically based mystery sheds on revelation and revelation sheds on mystery. . . . Bockmuehl treats admirably many difficult passages and scholarly disputes. . . . He develops the progress of biblical understanding regarding revelation and mystery, carefully balancing analysis with synthesis--a talent that is somewhat rare of late." --Journal of Ecumenical Studies"A most useful study. . . . Bockmuehl has brought together material from an enormously wide range of primary and secondary literature, for which we are greatly in his debt." --Journal of Theological Studies"For single authors like Philo, Josephus, and especially Paul, Bockmuehl's studies significantly add to the discussion." --Religious Studies Review"Bockmuehl examines the concepts of revelation and mystery, not as distinct entities, but in their theological interplay: the revelation of heavenly mysteries. . . . This book's breadth and depth will repay the attentive reader." --Journal for the Study of the New Testament

Author : Markus N. A. Bockmuehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Revelation
ISBN : 3161455339

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Revelation and Mystery by Markus N. A. Bockmuehl Pdf

Author : Donghyun Jeong
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110791389

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Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries by Donghyun Jeong Pdf

This monograph provides an alternative model for looking at the old question about Paul and the mysteries in a new light. Specifically, this study compares rituals—baptism in the Pauline communities and the initiation rituals of the mysteries—through the lens of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religion. Three research questions lead the project: What benefits does each initiation ritual promise its participants? What are the underlying messages or structures that guarantee the efficacy of those rituals? How and to what extent is the initiation ritual connected to the participants’ cognition and ethics beyond initiation itself? Taking those questions as the analytical framework, this study substantiates two points: first, in terms of ritual messages, baptism in the Pauline communities is a ritual analogous to mystery initiation, and second, Paul is an innovative interpreter of ritual who recalibrates the messages of preexisting rituals for his theological and ethical program, seeking to radically extend the implications of initiation to the embodied life of every Christ-believer. Students and scholars of New Testament, early Christianity, classics, and ritual studies will benefit from engaging this volume.

Author : C. C. Rowland,Christopher R. A. Morray-Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004175327

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The Mystery of God by C. C. Rowland,Christopher R. A. Morray-Jones Pdf

This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to illuminate aspects of New Testament theology. The first part begins with a consideration of the mystical character of apocalypticism and then uses the Book of Revelation and the development of views about the heavenly mediator figure of Enoch to explore the importance of apocalypticism in the Gospels and Acts, the Pauline Letters and finally the key theological themes in the later books of the New Testament. The second and third parts explore the character of early Jewish mysticism by taking important themes in the early Jewish mystical texts such as the Temple and the Divine Body to demonstrate the relevance of this material to New Testament interpretation.

Author : Karina Martin Hogan,Matthew Goff,Emma Wasserman
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884142072

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Pedagogy in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity by Karina Martin Hogan,Matthew Goff,Emma Wasserman Pdf

Engage fourteen essays from an international group of experts There is little direct evidence for formal education in the Bible and in the texts of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. At the same time, pedagogy and character formation are important themes in many of these texts. This book explores the pedagogical purpose of wisdom literature, in which the concept of discipline (Hebrew musar) is closely tied to the acquisition of wisdom. It examines how and why the concept of musar came to be translated as paideia (education, enculturation) in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint), and how the concept of paideia was deployed by ancient Jewish authors writing in Greek. The different understandings of paideia in wisdom and apocalyptic writings of Second Temple Judaism are this book's primary focus. It also examines how early Christians adapted the concept of paideia, influenced by both the Septuagint and Greco-Roman understandings of this concept. Features A thorough lexical study of the term paideia in the Septuagint Exploration of the relationship of wisdom and Torah in Second Temple Judaism Examination of how Christians developed new forms of pedagogy in competition with Jewish and pagan systems of education

Author : Markus N. A. Bockmuehl
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Apostles
ISBN : 3161505808

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The Remembered Peter by Markus N. A. Bockmuehl Pdf

Collection of texts partly published previously, all rev. and updated.

Author : T. J. Lang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110436860

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Mystery and the Making of a Christian Historical Consciousness by T. J. Lang Pdf

In general, theological terms this study examines the interplay of early Christian understandings of history, revelation, and identity. The book explores this interaction through detailed analysis of appeals to "mystery" in the Pauline letter collection and then the discourse of previously hidden but newly revealed mysteries in various second-century thinkers. T.J. Lang argues that the historical coordination of the concealed/revealed binary ("the mystery previously hidden but presently revealed") enabled these early Christian authors to ground Christian claims - particularly key ecclesial, hermeneutical, and christological claims - in Israel's history and in the eternal design of God while at the same time accounting for their revelatory newness. This particular Christian conception of time gives birth to a new and totalizing historical consciousness, and one that has significant implications for the construction of Christian identity, particularly vis-à-vis Judaism.

Author : Alex Fogleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009377393

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Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation by Alex Fogleman Pdf

Provides a new history of catechesis in early Latin Christianity that foregrounds core questions of knowledge, faith, and teaching.

Author : Christian H. Bull,Liv Lied,John D. Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004212077

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Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices by Christian H. Bull,Liv Lied,John D. Turner Pdf

Drawing on a wide array of sources, this anthology sets out to analyze the concepts of mystery and secrecy that occur in the ritual and rhetoric of antique Mediterranean religion, with an emphasis on Gnosticism, Christianity, and Paganism.

Author : Bruce W. Longenecker
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493422340

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In Stone and Story by Bruce W. Longenecker Pdf

This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture of the thriving first-century towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which act as showpieces of the world into which the early Christian movement was spreading. Bruce Longenecker, a leading scholar of the ancient world of the New Testament, discusses first-century artifacts in relation to the life stories of people from the Roman world. The book includes discussion questions, maps, and 175 color photographs. Additional resources are available through Textbook eSources.

Author : Benjamin G. Wold
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 3161486919

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Women, Men, and Angels by Benjamin G. Wold Pdf

Revised form of the author's thesis (doctoral) - University of Durham, 2004.

Author : Lorenzo DiTommaso,Matthew Goff
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628375350

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Reimagining Apocalypticism by Lorenzo DiTommaso,Matthew Goff Pdf

The Dead Sea Scrolls have expanded the corpus of early Jewish apocalyptic literature and tested scholars’ ideas of what apocalyptic means. With all the scrolls now available for study, contributors to this volume engage those texts and many more to reexplore not only definitions of the genre but also the influence of the Dead Sea Scrolls on the study of apocalyptic literature in the Second Temple period and beyond. Part 1 focuses on debates about categories and genre. Part 2 explores ancient Jewish texts from the Second Temple period to the early rabbinic era. Part 3 brings the results of scroll research into dialogue with the New Testament and early Christian writings. Contributors include Garrick V. Allen, Giovanni B. Bazzana, Stefan Beyerle, Dylan M. Burns, John J. Collins, Devorah Dimant, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Frances Flannery, Matthew J. Goff, Angela Kim Harkins, Martha Himmelfarb, G. Anthony Keddie, Armin Lange, Harry O. Maier, Andrew B. Perrin, Christopher Rowland, Alex Samely, Jason M. Silverman, and Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg.

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110376999

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Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World by Jan N. Bremmer Pdf

The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach makes it hard to see how the actual initiation into the Mysteries took place. To do precisely that is the aim of this book. It gives a ‘thick description’ of the major Mysteries, not only of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries, but also those located at the interface of Greece and Anatolia: the Mysteries of Samothrace, Imbros and Lemnos as well as those of the Corybants. It then proceeds to look at the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries, which have become increasingly better understood due to the many discoveries of new texts in the recent times. Having looked at classical Greece we move on to the Roman Empire, where we study not only the lesser Mysteries, which we know especially from Pausanias, but also the new ones of Isis and Mithras. We conclude our book with a discussion of the possible influence of the Mysteries on emerging Christianity. Its detailed references and up-to-date bibliography will make this book indispensable for any scholar interested in the Mysteries and ancient religion, but also for those scholars who work on initiation or esoteric rituals, which were often inspired by the ancient Mysteries.

Author : Jürgen Zangenberg,Harold W. Attridge,Dale B. Martin
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3161490444

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Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee by Jürgen Zangenberg,Harold W. Attridge,Dale B. Martin Pdf

What is a Galilean? What were the criteria of defining a person as a Galilean - archaeologically or with respect to literary sources such as Josephus or the rabbis? What role did religion play in the process of identity formation? Twenty-two articles based on papers read at conferences at Cambridge, Wuppertal and Yale by experts from 7 countries shed light on a complex region, the pivotal geographic and cultural context of both earliest Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. In these papers, ancient Galilee emerges as a dynamic region of continuous change, in which religion, 'ethnicity', and 'identity' were not static monoliths but had to be negotiated in the context of a multiform environment subject to different influences.

Author : Annette Yoshiko Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521853788

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Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity by Annette Yoshiko Reed Pdf

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on the fallen angels.