Scribes Visionaries And The Politics Of Second Temple Judea

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664229917

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Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea by Richard A. Horsley Pdf

Judaism and Christianity both arose in times of empire, with roots in Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. In order to understand these religious movements, we must first understand the history and society of these imperial cultures. In these formative years, wisdom and apocalyptic traditions flourished as two significant religious forms. In Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea, distinguished New Testament scholar Richard A. Horsley analyzes the function and meaning of these religious movements within their social context, providing essential background for the development of early Judaism and early Christianity. It is an ideal textbook for classes on the rise of Judaism or the Second Temple period, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls and Apocrypha.

Author : Bradley C. Gregory
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110223668

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Like an Everlasting Signet Ring by Bradley C. Gregory Pdf

This work explores the theological and social dimensions of generosity in the book of Sirach and contextualizes them within the culture and thought of Second Temple Judaism. Ben Sira's understanding of generosity is predicated on the tension between affirming the classic wisdom principle of retributive justice and recognizing its breakdown in the socio-economic circumstances of Seleucid Judea. He forges a new Wisdom-Torah ethic of mercy in which giving generously is an integral part of living "the good life". While loans and surety are essential practices, almsgiving is the preeminent act of generosity. The fundamental theological logic at work consists in viewing the poor as proxies for God and is based on the economic structure of Proverbs 19:17. Giving to the poor is, in reality, a deposit in a heavenly treasury and will pay future dividends. By situating Ben Sira's view of almsgiving within the wider framework of retributive justice and its breakdown, new light is shed on the practical tensions regarding the extent of almsgiving and its relationship to the support of the Jerusalem priesthood. The various dynamics of Ben Sira's thought on generosity are situated within the broader Hellenistic world and in their foundational role for later Jewish and Christian thought.

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611172942

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Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine by Richard A. Horsley Pdf

This comprehensive critical analysis of the historical Jesus examines his mission and involvement in the conflicted politics of ancient Palestine. In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley brings the context and implications of recent historical research to bear on our understanding of Jesus of Nazareth. Based on a critical reconsideration of the Gospels and contemporary sources for Roman imperial rule in Judea and Galilee, Horsley argues that Jesus was deeply concerned with the politics of his day. Drawing on anthropological studies of peasant politics, Horsley discerns how Jesus, as a Moses- and Elijah-like prophet, generated a movement of renewal in Israel that was focused on village communities. Following the traditional prophetic pattern, Jesus pronounced God’s judgment against the rulers in Jerusalem and their Roman patrons. This confrontation with the Jerusalem rulers and his martyrdom at the hands of the Roman governor, however, became the breakthrough that empowered the rapid expansion of his movement in the immediately ensuing decades. In the broader context of this comprehensive historical construction of Jesus’s mission, Horsley also presents a fresh new analysis of Jesus’s healings and exorcisms and his conflict with the Pharisees, topics that have been generally neglected in the last several decades.

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664222757

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Hearing the Whole Story by Richard A. Horsley Pdf

Richard Horsley provides a sure guide for first time readers of Mark's Gospel and, at the very same time, induces those more familiar with Mark to take a fresh look at this Gospel. From tracing the plot and sub-plot in Mark to exploring how the Gospel was first heard (as oral performance), Horsely tackles old questions from new angles. Horsely consistently and judiciously uses sociological categories and method to help readers see how Mark's Jesus challenged the dominant order of his day.

Author : Meredith J. Stone
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884143444

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Empire and Gender in LXX Esther by Meredith J. Stone Pdf

A new perspective on essential aspects of Esther’s plot and characters for students and scholars Empire and Gender in LXX Esther foregrounds and highlights empire as the central lens in this provocative new reading of Esther. This book provides a unique synchronic reading of LXX Esther with the Additions, allowing the presence and negotiation of imperial power to be further illuminated throughout the story’s plot. Stone explores and demonstrates how performances of gender are inextricably intertwined with the exertion and negotiation of imperial power portrayed in LXX Esther and offers examples of connections to the range of imperial power experienced by Jewish people during the late Second Temple period. Features: An exploration of the tenets and methodology of imperial-critical approaches Focused attention to the final form of LXX Esther Construction of early audiences for LXX Esther in first-century BCE Ptolemaic Alexandria and Hasmonean Judea

Author : Samuel L. Adams
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664237035

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Social and Economic Life in Second Temple Judea by Samuel L. Adams Pdf

Those who study the Bible are becoming increasingly attentive to the significance of economics when examining ancient texts and the cultures that produced them. This book looks at the socioeconomic landscape of Second Temple Judea, from the end of the Babylonian exile to the destruction of the temple by the Romans (532 BCE to 70 CE). Adams carefully examines key themes, paying special attention to family life, the status of women, and children, while engaging relevant textual and archaeological evidence. He looks at borrowing and lending and the burdensome taxation policies under a succession of colonial powers. In this pursuit, Adams offers an innovative analysis of economic life with fresh insights from biblical texts. No other study has specifically analyzed economics for this lengthy timeframe, especially in relation to these key themes. This important book provides readers with a helpful context for understanding religious beliefs and practices in the time of early Judaism and emerging Christianity.

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451416725

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Revolt of the Scribes by Richard A. Horsley Pdf

"If earlier scholarship on apocalyptic literature was once described as "clueless about apocalypticism, " it was due in part to a focus on questions of definition, literary genre, and theological eccentricity. Richard A. Horsley takes a different approach, letting the language of the apocalypses themselves reveal their chief concern: the expanding domination by foreign empires and the form that popular defiance should take. Most telling are the traces where Judean scribes wrote themselves into their texts - and thus into God's purposes in history."--Jaquette du livre.

Author : Stephen Arden Long
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783161623844

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Dynamics of Charity and Reciprocity in the Book of Sirach by Stephen Arden Long Pdf

Author : Sheila E. McGinn,Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan,Ahida Calderon Pilarski
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451465501

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By Bread Alone by Sheila E. McGinn,Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan,Ahida Calderon Pilarski Pdf

Important ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of world hunger and put in the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global austerity measures and welfare. This book explores the dynamics of hunger and its causation in ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman world.

Author : Richard Horsley,Tom Thatcher
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802868725

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John, Jesus, and the Renewal of Israel by Richard Horsley,Tom Thatcher Pdf

In this book Richard Horsley and Tom Thatcher trace the Gospel of John's portrayal of Jesus as a prophet of renewal by reading the text against a double backdrop -- the social history of Roman Palestine and the media world of John. This innovative study is the first to consider the Gospel of John as story in the ancient media context of oral communication and oral performance. Horsley and Thatcher creatively combine concerns from the fields of Jesus studies and ancient media studies in their analysis. Taking the main conflict evident in John's story of Jesus as the key to its plot, they discern how this Gospel -- usually read as "spiritual" -- portrays Jesus engaged in a concrete program of renewal and resistance.

Author : Louis C. Jonker
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161545958

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Defining All-Israel in Chronicles by Louis C. Jonker Pdf

In this book, Louis C. Jonker considers more sophisticated and nuanced models for applying the heuristic lens of "identity" in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible book of Chronicles. Not only does he investigate the potential and limitations of different sociological models for this purpose, but the author also provides a more nuanced analysis of the socio-historical context of origin of late Persian-period biblical literature by distinguishing between four levels of socio-historic existence in this period. It is shown that varying power relations were in operation on these different levels which contributed to a multi-levelled process of identity negotiation. Louis C. Jonker shows the value of the chosen methodological approach in his analysis of Chronicles, but also suggests that it holds potential for the investigation of other Hebrew Bible corpora.

Author : John Kampen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802843845

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Wisdom Literature by John Kampen Pdf

This is an accessible commentary on the Jewish wisdom literature of Qumran by a renowned Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. The book features translations, critical notes, and a line-by-line commentary.

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666748659

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The Pharisees and the Temple-State of Judea by Richard A. Horsley Pdf

Far from being a stable situation, the historical context in the late Second Temple Era was full of conflict at the level of the empires and that of the rulers in Palestine. Ordinary people, including both Jerusalemites and villagers, periodically mounted resistance and even revolts against exploitative and/or domineering rulers. Pharisees and scribes, sometimes as retainers of the temple-state but sometimes as dissident retainers, usually attempted to mediate tensions and conflicts but also offered resistance at certain crisis points. With broader critical assessment of the sources and a clearer sense of the changing social-political context, it is possible to construct a (provisional) history of the Pharisees' political position and role in, or in opposition to, the temple-state in Judea under imperial rule. --from the Introduction

Author : Paul D. Mandel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004336889

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The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text by Paul D. Mandel Pdf

In this volume, Paul Mandel presents a study of the words darash and midrash from the Bible until rabbinic literature, claiming that the words refer to instruction in law and not to interpretation of text.

Author : Katharina Pyschny,Sarah Schulz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110650358

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Transforming Authority by Katharina Pyschny,Sarah Schulz Pdf

In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschläge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flüssig geschrieben sind.