Whoever Hears You Hears Me

Author : Richard A. Horsley,Jonathan A. Draper
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563382725

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Whoever Hears You Hears Me by Richard A. Horsley,Jonathan A. Draper Pdf

Here is a challenge to New Testament scholars to engage in a fresh analysis of Q. The authors argue that recent American study of Q has been dominated by those trained in form-criticism and oriented to Hellenistic rather than Judean culture, resulting in the extreme atomization of the Q sayings and reconstructions of Jesus and his first followers as Cynics, and in the de-politicization and de-judaization of the Q materials and Jesus. Also determinative of the current situation has been the assumption in New Testament studies of textuality, of an ethos of written communication and of textual models for analysis. However, as is recently becoming clear from studies of oral and written communication, the communication situation of Jesus and his first followers was almost certainly oral. Horsley and Draper therefore contend that it is time the interpretation of Q took seriously the oral communication environment in which this material developed and continued before Matthew and Luke incorporated it into their Gospels. This book, then, applies approaches to oral-derived literature from oral theorists, socio-linguistics, ethnopoetics, and the ethnography of speaking to the Q materials. The result is a developing theory of oral performance that generates meaning as symbols articulated in the appropriate performance situation resonate with the cultural tradition in which the hearers are grounded. Richard A. Horsley is Professor of Classics and Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Jonathan A. Draper teaches at the University of Natal, South Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594733604

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The Lost Sayings of Jesus by Anonim Pdf

Jesus’s words of wisdom can become a companion on your own spiritual journey. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are not the only record we have of the words spoken by Jesus. Designed to challenge, enlighten and inspire, they are also quoted in a wide variety of other ancient sources—including the Qur’an, writings by early Christian church fathers, and fragments of lost gospels only recently discovered. Some of these sayings are familiar; many are surprising; all expand our conventional understanding of the scope and essence of Jesus’s original teachings. More than a “Christian” compilation, this collection of more than three hundred sayings reveals a Jesus whose words encapsulate spiritual truths that resonate across religious boundaries. From the encouraging “I am hope for the hopeless,” to the wise and practical “Love those who hate you and you will not have an enemy,” to the candid “Give no opportunity to the evil one,” these pointed sayings not only reveal how Jesus was understood and portrayed across a wide variety of cultures long ago—they will also penetrate to your heart, challenge your assumptions, and energize your own spiritual quest. Now you can experience the wisdom and power of Jesus’s sayings even if you have no previous knowledge of these little-known texts.

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666707427

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

In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth's mission and how he became a significant historical figure. Horsley brings a fuller historical knowledge of the context and implications of recent research to bear on the investigation of the historical Jesus. Breaking with the standard focus on isolated individual sayings of Jesus, Horsley argues that the sources for Jesus in historical interaction are the Gospels and the speeches of Jesus that they include, read critically in their historical context. This work challenges the standard assumptions that the historical Jesus has been presented primarily as a sage or apocalyptic visionary. In contrast, based on a critical reconsideration of the Gospels and contemporary sources for Roman imperial rule in Judea and Galilee, Horsley argues that Jesus was fully involved in the conflicted politics of ancient Palestine. Learning from anthropological studies of the more subtle forms of peasant politics, Horsley discerns from these sources how Jesus, as a Moses- and Elijah-like prophet, generated a movement of renewal in Israel that was focused on village communities. This paperback edition is updated with a new preface, bibliography, and indexes.

Author : Tracy Finke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304540331

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Confirmed Catholic by Tracy Finke Pdf

Author : Isaac of Stella
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879076672

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Sermons on the Christian Year by Isaac of Stella Pdf

Isaac of Stella was an English-born Cistercian who studied in the schools before entering monastic life and becoming abbot of Stella in 1147. His liturgical sermons inject a speculative philosophical inquisitiveness into imaginative meditations on scenes from Scripture. This present volume includes sermons 27–55, along with three fragments. In these sermons, while treating biblical passages corresponding to the major feasts of the Christian calendar, Isaac tackles weighty dogmatic issues such as predestination, the problem of evil, and Christ’s two natures.

Author : Tracy Finke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 464 pages
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Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304540300

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Embracing Catholicism by Tracy Finke Pdf

Author : Antony Michael Hylton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 43 pages
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Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359675395

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You Can Disciple Nations About Prayer in Christ by Antony Michael Hylton Pdf

Author : Robert J. Myles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978702080

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Class Struggle in the New Testament by Robert J. Myles Pdf

Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data, and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Chapters address collective struggles in the Gospels; the Roman military and class; the usefulness of categories like peasant, retainer, and middling groups for understanding the world of Jesus; the class basis behind the origin of archangels; the Gospels as products of elite culture; the implication of capitalist ideology upon biblical interpretation; and the New Testament’s use of slavery metaphors, populist features, and gifting practices. This book will become a definitive reference point for future discussion.

Author : W. J. Battersby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Catholic Church
ISBN : BSB:BSB10028760

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Battersby's Registry for the whole world, with the complete ordo, or Catholic directory, Almanac and Registry, for... by W. J. Battersby Pdf

Author : Kurt K. Hendel
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451465556

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Johannes Bugenhagen by Kurt K. Hendel Pdf

In this landmark set, an extensive collection of writings from Johannes Bugenhagen, Luthers pastor, friend, and colleague in reform, are presented for the first time in English. The vast majority of these works have only been available in their original, sixteenth-century editions. Bugenhagen (14851558) was a pivotal figure in the organization of the Lutheran movementinnorthern Germany and in parts of Scandinavia. Kurt Hendel has organized this extensive collection thematicallyintroducing us to Bugenhagen the man, the theologian, the exegete, the pastor, the church organizer, and the social reformer.

Author : John Franklin Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR60006358

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A History of Reformatory Movements by John Franklin Rowe Pdf

Author : Michael I. Edem CM
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781514486047

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Dominic Ignatius Ekandem 1917-1995 by Michael I. Edem CM Pdf

A phenomenon seldom recognised in the media of Western Europe and North America is the extraordinary growth of the Catholic Church of South America and sub-Saharan Africa during the last five decades, and nowhere more than in Nigeria. A key figure in that country and in that growth, up to his death in 1995, was Cardinal Ekandem, the first Anglophone West-African bishop - the first of many - and an outstanding churchman of the 20th Century. Fr Michael Edem's scholarly biography of the Cardinal is a fascinating account of a journey from life in a traditional African village to the consistory of cardinals of the Catholic Church in Rome. It will be of enormous interest to a wider public for the author's personal knowledge of the cardinal and of the Efik/Ibibio culture in which they both grew up.

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625641588

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Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing by Richard A. Horsley Pdf

"Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. In the ancient world from which those texts originate, however, literacy was confined to only a small number of educated scribes. And, as recent research has shown, even the literate scribes learned texts by repeated recitation, while the nonliterate ordinary people had little if any direct contact with written scrolls. The texts that had taken distinctive form, moreover, were embedded in a broader and deeper cultural repertoire cultivated orally in village communities as well as in scribal circles. Only recently have some scholars struggled to appreciate texts that later became ""biblical"" in their own historical context of oral communication. Exploration of texts in oral performance--whether as scribal teachers' instruction to their protŽgŽs or as prophetic speeches of Jesus of Nazareth or as the performance of a whole Gospel story in a community of Jesus-loyalists--requires interpreters to relinquish their print-cultural assumptions. Widening exploration of texts in oral performance in other fields offers exciting new possibilities for allowing those texts to come alive again in their community contexts as they resonated with the cultural tradition in which they were embedded."

Author : Daniel Nessim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725267077

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Torah for Gentiles? by Daniel Nessim Pdf

In the matrix of nascent Judaism and Christianity, the Didache is a Christian-Jewish voice seeking to mediate the Torah to its gentile recipients in a manner appropriate for them. Steering diplomatically between the Scylla and Charybdis of the Law-observant Jerusalem church and Pauline dogma, the Didache is very clear that gentiles do not need to convert to Judaism. On the other hand, the author argues, the Torah, and in particular the second Table of the Decalogue, is universally applicable to everyone, Jew and gentile. While gentiles are not required to keep commands specific to Israel, the Deuteronomic paradigm of the “Way of Life” versus the “Way of Death” is applicable to all. Jesus said “my yoke is easy.” The Didache mandates bearing the yoke of the Lord in order to attain perfection. The yoke it advocates is not as “easy” as one might suppose, yet both Jews and Christians would recognize its morals as largely the same as those that underpin Judaeo-Christian values today. Further, they reflect the requirements that Christian Jews saw as necessary for participation in the Christian community, in a day when that community still looked very much to its Jewish progenitors.

Author : Stephen E. Young
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Apostolic Fathers
ISBN : 3161510100

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Jesus Tradition in the Apostolic Fathers by Stephen E. Young Pdf

This dissertation reevaluates the tradition of Jesus' sayings in the Apostolic Fathers in light of the growing recognition of the impact of orality upon early Christianity and its writings. At the beginning of the last century it was common to hold that the Apostolic Fathers made wide use of the canonical Gospels. While a number of studies have since called this view into question, many of them simply replace the theory of dependence upon canonical Gospels with one of dependence upon other written sources. No full-scale study of Jesus tradition in the Apostolic Fathers has been published which takes into account the last four decades of new research into oral tradition in the wake of the pioneering work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord. Based on this new research, the present dissertation advances the thesis that an oral-traditional source best explains the form and content of the explicit appeals to Jesus tradition in the Apostolic Fathers that predate 2 Clement. In the course of the discussion, attention is drawn to the ways in which the Jesus tradition in the Apostolic Fathers informs our understanding of the use of oral tradition in Christian antiquity.