The Galilean Wonderworker

Author : Ian G. Wallis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532675928

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The Galilean Wonderworker by Ian G. Wallis Pdf

What are the origins of Jesus’ reputation for healings and exorcisms? Few questions in Jesus studies are more hotly contested or elicit more diverse responses. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and in dialogue with recent scholarly literature, The Galilean Wonderworker offers a compelling account. Recognizing the reciprocal relationship between personal and communal well-being within Israelite faith, this study offers new insights into how sickness and healing were understood in first-century Palestine. This, in turn, supplies the backcloth for a fresh evaluation of the evidence for Jesus’ healings and exorcisms, where the emphasis falls firmly upon the dynamics of personal encounter. Jesus emerges as a spirit-person, capable of engendering faith and exercising authority to the extent that sufferers experienced liberation from debilitating symptoms and oppressive behaviors, many of which reflected contemporary sociopolitical conditions. Further, by vesting theological significance in these outcomes, they simultaneously constituted manifestations of God’s sovereign presence, signaling restoration of covenantal well-being. Acknowledging that Jesus expected his disciples to heal and exorcize, the investigation concludes with an overview of how this legacy was embraced by the early church—noting how exorcism becomes incorporated into Christian initiation while spiritual healing, though continuing, is eclipsed by pastoral care and conventional medical practice.

Author : Ian G. Wallis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532675942

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The Galilean Wonderworker by Ian G. Wallis Pdf

What are the origins of Jesus' reputation for healings and exorcisms? Few questions in Jesus studies are more hotly contested or elicit more diverse responses. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and in dialogue with recent scholarly literature, The Galilean Wonderworker offers a compelling account. Recognizing the reciprocal relationship between personal and communal well-being within Israelite faith, this study offers new insights into how sickness and healing were understood in first-century Palestine. This, in turn, supplies the backcloth for a fresh evaluation of the evidence for Jesus' healings and exorcisms, where the emphasis falls firmly upon the dynamics of personal encounter. Jesus emerges as a spirit-person, capable of engendering faith and exercising authority to the extent that sufferers experienced liberation from debilitating symptoms and oppressive behaviors, many of which reflected contemporary sociopolitical conditions. Further, by vesting theological significance in these outcomes, they simultaneously constituted manifestations of God's sovereign presence, signaling restoration of covenantal well-being. Acknowledging that Jesus expected his disciples to heal and exorcize, the investigation concludes with an overview of how this legacy was embraced by the early church--noting how exorcism becomes incorporated into Christian initiation while spiritual healing, though continuing, is eclipsed by pastoral care and conventional medical practice.

Author : Charles A. Wilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666763768

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Displacing Jesus by Charles A. Wilson Pdf

Displacing Jesus studies the inner workings of Thomas Jefferson’s editing and shortening of the Gospels of the New Testament, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. It uncovers the immanent moves of his editorial project and shows how he makes judgments on what to include and exclude from the Gospels. As the book analyzes Jefferson’s gospel, it reconstructs his cut-and-paste project as a displacing of the biblical story of Jesus into a war on Jewish authorities. Ignoring nearly all traditional religious themes, the new gospel reframes the story into a battle against the narrow and hypocritical morality of the leaders of Second Temple Judaism. Surprisingly, Jefferson’s editing does provide a robust, if not traditional, theology and a Christology centered in the passion of the Shepherd-Sage who performs his death for Wisdom. Displacing Jesus ends by connecting Jefferson’s creation in The Life and Morals with theological themes, with the history of his views on religion, and with comments on how new insights into Jefferson’s gospel can inform contemporary Jefferson research.

Author : David Wenham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108476263

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Jesus in Context by David Wenham Pdf

This accessible and comprehensive introduction examines the evidence and offers a coherent picture of Jesus of Nazareth in his context.

Author : Gohei Hata,Harold W. Attridge
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004509139

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Eusebius, Christianity and Judaism by Gohei Hata,Harold W. Attridge Pdf

Eusebius of Caesarea lived at a crucial turning point in the history of the Christian church. He was an important witness to the polemical and apologetic attitudes that characterized much early Christian literature. The most voluminous writer of the early fourth century, he was also the first comprehensive historian of his community seeking a philosophy to explain the whole course of history from the beginning to his own time. This volume places Eusebius' work in proper perspective. The contributors, all recognized specialists in early Christianity, shed light on the person and circumstances of Eusebius himself. This collection of essays focuses on elements of the story that Eusebius tells — the story of the early church, its relationship to Judaism, or its confrontation with the Roman Empire — and explores gaps left by Eusebius. The writers offer a cross-section of current scholarly methods in the study of early Christianity and Judaism.

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350278608

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The Origin of Sin by David Konstan Pdf

Where did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writings, and argues that the fundamental idea of "sin" arose in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, although this original meaning was obscured in later Jewish and Christian interpretations. Through close philological examination of the words for "sin," in particular the Hebrew hata' and the Greek hamartia, he traces their uses over the centuries in four chapters, and concludes that the common modern definition of sin as a violation of divine law indeed has antecedents in classical Greco-Roman conceptions, but acquired a wholly different sense in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.

Author : Phillip C. Thrailkill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666743463

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Following Jesus by Phillip C. Thrailkill Pdf

Two questions are braided together in Luke’s Gospel. Who is Jesus, and what does it mean to be his student and apprentice? The church has spent much of its intellectual energies on the first question, but not so much on the second. We are precise in our Christology and vague in our Discipleology (my new word!). Of the four biographies that open the New Testament, Luke is perhaps the best equipped to answer the question of what it means to follow Jesus along with others, and what we can expect in the process. Luke’s Gospel is dense with story after story about Jesus’s stumbling, goofy, persistent disciples. And his second volume—Acts—continues the tale. There is a deep continuity, as Luke teaches, between Jesus’s original disciples and the ones who later declared their allegiance to him after his resurrection. We walk in the footsteps of pioneers in this new way of living with a Jesus who is always near but just beyond sight. The aim of this book is to plunder the fruits of New Testament scholarship, especially the tools of rhetorical and narrative criticism, to highlight what an incredible adventure came with the call to follow me.

Author : Daniel T. Unterbrink
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781591437604

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Judas of Nazareth by Daniel T. Unterbrink Pdf

An investigation into the historical Jesus and the veracity of the Gospels • Reveals the biblical Jesus as a composite figure, a blend of the political revolutionary Judas the Galilean and Paul’s divine-human Christ figure • Matches the events depicted in the New Testament with historically verifiable events in Josephus’ history, pushing Jesus’ life back more than a decade • Demonstrates how each New Testament Gospel is dependent upon Paul’s mythologized Christ theology, designed to promote Paul’s Christianity and serve the interests of the fledgling Gentile Christian communities Scholars have spent years questioning aspects of the historical Jesus. How can we know what Jesus said and did when Jesus himself wrote nothing? Can we trust the Gospels, written by unknown authors 40 to 70 years after Jesus’ death? And why do other sources from the time not speak of this messianic figure known as Christ? Drawing on the histories of Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Daniel Unterbrink contends that the “Jesus” of the Bible was actually a composite figure, a clever blend of the Jewish freedom-fighter Judas the Galilean and Paul’s divine-human Christ figure created in the middle of the first century CE. Revealing why Paul was known as a liar, enemy, and traitor in other Jewish literature, he shows that the New Testament Gospels are not transcripts of actual history but creative works of historical fiction designed to promote Paul’s Christianity and serve the interests of the fledgling Gentile Christian communities. He demonstrates how each Gospel is written in light of the success of Paul’s religion and dependent upon his later perspective. Matching the events depicted in the New Testament with the historically verifiable events in Josephus’ history, Unterbrink pushes the dating of Jesus’ life back nearly a generation to a revolutionary time in ancient Judea. He shows that the real historical Jesus--the physical man behind the fictional stories in Paul’s Gospels--was Judas the Galilean: a messianic pretender and Torah-observant revolutionary bent on overthrowing the Roman government and galvanizing the Jewish people behind his vision of the coming Kingdom of God. In the greatest cover-up of history, this teacher of first-century Israel was replaced by the literary creation known as Jesus of Nazareth.

Author : Amy-Jill Levine,Dale C. Allison Jr.,John Dominic Crossan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400827374

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The Historical Jesus in Context by Amy-Jill Levine,Dale C. Allison Jr.,John Dominic Crossan Pdf

The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed new light on the Jesus of history, including pagan prayers and private inscriptions, miracle tales and martyrdoms, parables and fables, divorce decrees and imperial propaganda. The translated materials--from Christian, Coptic, and Jewish as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian texts--extend beyond single phrases to encompass the full context, thus allowing readers to locate Jesus in a broader cultural setting than is usually made available. This book demonstrates that only by knowing the world in which Jesus lived and taught can we fully understand him, his message, and the spread of the Gospel. Gathering in one place material that was previously available only in disparate sources, this formidable book provides innovative insight into matters no less grand than first-century Jewish and Gentile life, the composition of the Gospels, and Jesus himself.

Author : F. Scott Spencer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385207909

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Vote Jesus Christ by F. Scott Spencer Pdf

At the tense intersection of biblical interpretation and contemporary politics, this book stands out as an imagined political campaign guide based on a creative deep dive into Luke's vibrant evangelical account of Jesus's messianic mission. It seeks to challenge any group that blithely claims Jesus's endorsement of their partisan agendas today, but especially those trumpeting authoritarian rule. Close attention to Luke's narrative discloses a distinctive figure who strikingly ill fits standard strongman profiles and straitjacket labels. Warning: If Luke's Jesus doesn't change your vote, he might well change your mind, challenge your life, and shake up your politics along the way.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:$B526745

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Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy, Engineering, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Howard Van Doren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJT5M

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A Suggestive Commentary on St. John, with Critical and Homiletical Notes by William Howard Van Doren Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11320691

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The quarterly journal of science and annals of mining, metallurgy, engineering, industrial arts, manufactures, and technology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z228260109

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“The” Quarterly Journal of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Science
ISBN : HARVARD:32044048668669

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Quarterly Journal of Science by Anonim Pdf