The Contest For Time And Space In The Roman Imperial Cults And 1 Peter

Author : Wei Hsien Wan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567684448

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The Contest for Time and Space in the Roman Imperial Cults and 1 Peter by Wei Hsien Wan Pdf

Wei Hsien Wan builds on the work of David Horrell and Travis Williams for his argument that the letter of 1 Peter engages in a subtle, calculated form of resistance to Rome, that has often gone undetected. Whilst previous discussion of the topic has remained largely focused on the letter's stance toward specific Roman institutions, such as the emperor, household structures, and the imperial cults, Wan takes the conversation beyond these confines and examines 1 Peter's critique of the Roman Empire in terms of its ideology or worldview. Using the work of James Scott to conceptualize ideological resistance against domination, Wan considers how the imperial cults of Anatolia and 1 Peter offered distinct constructions of time and space-that is, how they envisioned reality differently. Insofar as these differences led to divergent ways of conceiving the social order, they acquired political power and generated potential for conflict. Wan thus argues that 1 Peter confronts Rome on a cosmic scale with its alternative construal of time and space, and examines the evidence that the Petrine author consciously, if cautiously, interrogated the imperial imagination at its most foundational levels, and set forth in its place a theocentric, Christological understanding of the world.

Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467459709

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Ethnicity and Inclusion by David G. Horrell Pdf

Some of today’s problematic ideologies of racial and religious difference can be traced back to constructions of the relationship between Judaism and early Christianity. New Testament studies, which developed contemporaneously with Europe’s colonial expansion and racial ideologies, is, David Horrell argues, therefore an important site at which to probe critically these ideological constructions and their contemporary implications. In Ethnicity and Inclusion, Horrell explores the ways in which “ethnic” (and “religious”) characteristics feature in key Jewish and early Christian texts, challenging the widely accepted dichotomy between a Judaism that is ethnically defined and a Christianity that is open and inclusive. Then, through an engagement with whiteness studies, he offers a critique of the implicit whiteness and Christianness that continue to dominate New Testament studies today, arguing that a diversity of embodied perspectives is epistemologically necessary.

Author : David G. Horrell,Travis B. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567710611

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1 Peter by David G. Horrell,Travis B. Williams Pdf

The second volume in Travis B. Williams' and David G. Horrell's magisterial ICC commentary on first Peter. Williams and Horrell bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the letter. This second covers the major part of the letter, providing commentary on 2.11 to the end of the letter. The exegesis provides for each passage sections on bibliography, text-criticism, literary introduction, detailed exegesis, and overall summary. The volume concludes with a comprehensive bibliography, which covers the whole epistle.

Author : Steve Walton,Paul Trebilco,David W. J. Gill
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467449052

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The Urban World and the First Christians by Steve Walton,Paul Trebilco,David W. J. Gill Pdf

In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.

Author : Susan Buck-Morss
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262362719

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Year 1 by Susan Buck-Morss Pdf

Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way. Conventional readings of antiquity cast Athens against Jerusalem, with Athens standing in for "reason" and Jerusalem for "faith." And yet, Susan Buck-Morss reminds us, recent scholarship has overturned this separation. Naming the first century as a zero point--"year one"--that divides time into before and after is equally arbirtrary, nothing more than a convenience that is empirically meaningless. In YEAR 1, Buck-Morss liberates the first century so it can speak to us in another way, reclaiming it as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences. Buck-Morss aims to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme and led us into some unhelpful postmodern impasses. She approaches the first century through the writings of three thinkers often marginalized in current discourse: Flavius Josephus, historian of the Judaean war; the neo-Platonic philosopher Philo of Alexandria; and John of Patmos, author of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible. Also making appearances are Antigone and John Coltrane, Plato and Bulwer-Lytton, al-Farabi and Jean Anouilh, Nicholas of Cusa and Zora Neale Hurston--not to mention Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Kristeva, and Derrida. Buck-Morss shows that we need no longer partition history as if it were a homeless child in need of the protective wisdom of Solomon. Those inhabiting the first century belong together in time, and therefore not to us.

Author : David Shaw
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004682801

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Narrative, Calling, and Missional Identity in 1 Peter by David Shaw Pdf

A story well-told and subsequently imbibed by its recipients has the power to shape one’s beliefs, identity, and way of life. So, what happens when a person or community is swept up in such a story? In this study, Shaw draws upon the dual methodologies of Narrative Transportation and Social Identity theories to consider how 1 Peter’s use of Old Testament narratives and καλέω language serves to ‘transport’ it’s recipients into an identity defined as ‘elect sojourners’. Amidst suffering, 1 Peter ‘calls’ the Anatolian believers to a priestly ministry, blessing their antagonists as they await their eternal glory in Christ.

Author : Joel M. Rothman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567710352

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The Cosmic Journey in the Book of Revelation by Joel M. Rothman Pdf

Joel M. Rothman considers the significance of cosmology in biblical and extra-biblical texts, and the role of the cosmic journey in many apocalyptic narratives. He posits that Revelation's narrative likewise takes the hearer on a virtual journey, through a cosmic story-space of great theological significance. While scholarship commonly assumes a three-tiered cosmos in Revelation, Rothman argues that Revelation's narrative operates in a four-tiered cosmos, with the hyper-heaven sitting above the sky-heaven, earth, and abyssal depths; a cosmic story-space that is recreated in the imagination of the hearers. Beginning with a methodology of visual narrative reading, Rothman then discusses the assumptions and existing conceptions regarding heaven and earth. He stresses that Revelation does not exhibit tension in its portrayal of heaven - between heaven as a site of conflict and heaven as the realm in which God truly reigns - but rather shows readers a sky-heaven characterised by archetypal conflict between powerful sky-beings and a hyper-heaven defined by full recognition of the Throne. In journeying through the sky-structure and God-space and by analysing the four cosmic layers in operation, the distinct nature of the two sky-spaces, cosmic change and the ideological import of the cosmic structure, Rothman demonstrates that the existence of the hyper-heaven - in contradistinction with the limited lived-cosmos of earth and sky-heaven - is a present guarantee of the final cosmic transformation that creates a new space for human life, exclusive of imperial draconian elements.

Author : S. R. F. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 052131268X

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Rituals and Power by S. R. F. Price Pdf

Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god.

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563382172

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Paul and Empire by Richard A. Horsley Pdf

Over the centuries, Paul has been understood as the prototypical convert from Judaism to Christianity. At the time of Pauls conversion, however, Christianity did not yet exist. Moreover, Paul says nothing to indicate that he was abandoning Judaism or Israel. He, in fact, understood his mission as the fulfillment of the promises to Israel and of Israels own destiny. In brief, Pauls gospel and mission were set over against the Roman Empire, not Judaism.

Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004297548

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The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, Volume 1 Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire Part 1 (2 vols.) by Duncan Fishwick Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Brodd,Jonathan L. Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 158983612X

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Rome and Religion by Jeffrey Brodd,Jonathan L. Reed Pdf

This book presents an up-to-date discussion of the Roman imperial cult (the divinization of the emperor) and its general importance in early Christianity and ancient Mediterranean religions. It features opening and closing essays by Karl Galinsky, a foremost authority on Roman history and culture. Thirteen other essays explore related aspects and draw on a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, including theory, method, archaeology, epigraphy, and art. The authors are classicists, biblical and religious scholars, historians, and archaeologists, with expertise in various cultural milieus. Reflecting this spectrum of backgrounds and interests, the book addresses issues and phenomena covering a broad expanse of subjects, locations, and methodological concerns.The contributors are Jeffrey Brodd, Warren Carter, Nancy Evans, Steven J. Friesen, Karl Galinsky, James Constantine Hanges, Robin M. Jensen, James S. McClaren, Eric M. Orlin, Jonathan L. Reed, Daniel N. Schowalter,

Author : Duncan Fishwich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1088826110

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The Imperial Cult in the Latin West by Duncan Fishwich Pdf

Author : Lily Ross Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0891307028

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The Divinity of the Roman Emperor by Lily Ross Taylor Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004425682

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The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE) by Anonim Pdf

The apostle Peter gradually became one of the most famous figures of the ancient world. His almost undisputed reputation made the disciple an exquisite anchor by which new practices within and outside the Church could be established, including innovations in fields as diverse as architecture, art, cult, epigraphy, liturgy, poetry and politics. This interdisciplinary volume inquires the way in which the figure of Peter functioned as an anchor for various people from different periods and geographical areas. The concept of Anchoring Innovation is used to investigate the history of the reception of the apostle Peter from the first century up to Charlemagne, revealing as much about Peter as about the context in which this reception took place.

Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Rome
ISBN : OCLC:1086565540

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The Imperial Cult in the Latin West by Duncan Fishwick Pdf

Open worship of the Roman Emperor with sacrifice, priests, altar and temple was in theory contrary to official policy in Rome. The cult of the living emperor by less direct means, however, might be achieved in various ways: the offering of cult to his companion genius or the divine numen immanent within him; the elevation of the Imperial house to a level at which it became godlike; the formal placing of the emperor on a par with the gods by making dedications to him ut deo ; the conversion of divinities of every kind into Augustan gods that served as the Emperor's helper and protector; the creation of Augustan Blessings and Virtues that personified the qualities and benefactions of the emperor. Volume II, 2 completes the preliminary set of studies with a select bibliography, indexes and corrigenda to Vols. I, 1-2 and II, 1.