Why Bíos On The Relationship Between Gospel Genre And Implied Audience

Author : Justin Marc Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567656612

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Why Bíos? On the Relationship Between Gospel Genre and Implied Audience by Justin Marc Smith Pdf

Justin Marc Smith argues that the gospels were intended to be addressed to a wide and varied audience. He does this by considering them to be works of ancient biography, comparative to the Greco-Roman biography. The earliest Christian interpreters of the Gospels did not understand their works to be sectarian documents. Rather, the wider context of Jesus literature in the second and third centuries points toward the broader Christian practice of writing and disseminating literary presentations of Jesus and Jesus traditions as widely as possible. Smith addresses the difficulty in reconstructing the various gospel communities that might lie behind the gospel texts and suggests that the 'all nations' motif present in all four of the canonical gospels suggests an ideal secondary audience beyond those who could be identified as Christian.

Author : Ndekha, Louis
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863099510

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Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel by Ndekha, Louis Pdf

Author : Ryder Wishart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004687165

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Gospels or Biographies? The Gospels as Folk Literature by Ryder Wishart Pdf

Challenging the widely accepted classification of the canonical gospels as biographies or historiographies, the author argues that they should be classified as collections of folk literature from early Christianity. Drawing on comparative register analysis and re-introducing literary and sociolinguistic insights from the twentieth-century form critics, this insightful study challenges readers to rethink the significance of gospels for understanding Jesus’s historical context and relevance for modern readers. The gospels are not merely designed to inform readers about the life of Jesus but also to push readers into accepting or rejecting his teaching. It is a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the gospel genre and the intentions of the evangelists who compiled them.

Author : Michael Strickland,David M. Young
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506438474

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The Rhetoric of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark by Michael Strickland,David M. Young Pdf

Young and Strickland analyze the four largest discourses of Jesus in Mark in the context of Greco-Roman rhetoric in an attempt to hear them as a first-century audience would have heard them. The authors demonstrate that, contrary to what some historical critics have suggested, first-century audiences of Mark would have found the discourses of Jesus unified, well-integrated, and persuasive. They also show how these speeches of the Markan Jesus contribute to Mark‘s overall narrative accomplishments.

Author : J. R. Daniel Kirk,Adam Winn,Sandra Huebenthal,L. W. Hurtado
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310538721

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Christology in Mark's Gospel: Four Views by J. R. Daniel Kirk,Adam Winn,Sandra Huebenthal,L. W. Hurtado Pdf

Gain Insights on Mark's Christology from Today's Leading Scholars The Gospel of Mark, widely assumed to be the earliest narrative of Jesus's life and the least explicit in terms of Christology, has long served as a worktable for the discovery of Christian origins and developing theologies. The past ten years of scholarship have seen an unprecedented shift toward an early, high Christology, the notion that very early in the history of the Jesus movement his followers worshipped him as God. Other studies have challenged this view, arguing that Mark's story is incomplete, intentionally ambiguous, or presents Jesus in entirely human terms. Christology in Mark's Gospel: Four Views brings together key voices in conversation in order to offer a clear entry point into early Christians' understanding of Jesus's identity: Sandra Huebenthal (Suspended Christology), Larry W. Hurtado (Mark's Presentation of Jesus; with rejoinder by Chris Keith), J. R. Daniel Kirk (Narrative Christology of a Suffering King), and Adam Winn (Jesus as the YHWH of Israel in the Gospel of Mark). Each author offers a robust presentation of their position, followed by lively interaction with the other contributors and one "last-word" rejoinder. The significance of this discussion is contextualized by the general editor Anthony Le Donne's introduction and summarized in the conclusion. The CriticalPoints Series offers rigorous and nuanced engagement between today's best scholars for advancing the scholarship of tomorrow. Like its older sibling, the CounterPoints Series, it provides a forum for comparison and critique of different positions, focusing on critical issues in today's Christian scholarship: in biblical studies, in theology, and in philosophy.

Author : Craig L. Blomberg
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805464375

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The Historical Reliability of the New Testament by Craig L. Blomberg Pdf

This book is a fully stocked toolbox for anyone interested in whether we can still trust the New Testament in the twenty-first century.

Author : Tyler Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004396043

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The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds in Ancient Historiography, Biography, Romance, and Drama by Tyler Smith Pdf

In The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds, Tyler Smith offers an account of how conventions for representing minds in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama illuminate the cognitive dimension of the Fourth Gospel.

Author : Scot McKnight,Nijay K. Gupta
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493419807

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The State of New Testament Studies by Scot McKnight,Nijay K. Gupta Pdf

This book surveys the current landscape of New Testament studies, offering readers a concise guide to contemporary discussions. Bringing together a diverse group of experts, it covers research on the most important issues in New Testament studies, including new discipline areas, making it an ideal supplemental textbook for a variety of courses on the New Testament. Michael Bird, David Capes, Greg Carey, Lynn Cohick, Dennis Edwards, Michael Gorman, and Abson Joseph are among the contributors.

Author : Teresa Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192675699

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The New Testament and the Theology of Trust by Teresa Morgan Pdf

This study argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers the first theology of trust in the New Testament. 'Trust' is the root meaning of Christian 'faith' (pistis, fides), and trusting in God and Christ is still fundamental to Christians. But unlike faith, and other aspects of faith such as belief or hope, trust is little studied. Building on her ground-breaking study Roman Faith and Christian Faith, and drawing on the philosophy and psychology of trust, Teresa Morgan explores the significance of trust, trustworthiness, faithfulness, and entrustedness in New Testament writings. Trust between God, Christ, and humanity is revealed as a risky, dynamic, forward-looking, life-changing partnership. God entrusts Christ with winning the trust of humanity and bringing humanity to trust in God. God and Christ trust humanity to respond to God's initiative through Christ, and entrust the faithful with diverse forms of work for humanity and for creation. Human understanding of God and Christ is limited, and trust and faithfulness often fail, but imperfect trust is not a deal-breaker. Morgan develops a new model of atonement, showing how trust enables humanity's release from the power of both sin and suffering. She examines the neglected concept of propositional trust and argues that it plays a key role in faith. This volume offers a compelling vision of Christian trust as soteriological, ethical, and community-forming. Trust is both the means of salvation and an end in itself, because where we trust is where we most fully live.

Author : Michael Vicko Zolondek
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666721539

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The Quest for a Historical Jesus Methodology by Michael Vicko Zolondek Pdf

Throughout the "quest for the historical Jesus," there has been a parallel quest aimed at discovering new and improved methodologies for studying his life. This methodological quest was originally driven by the belief that the Gospels are so unique (even sui generis) among the literary works of their time that such "historical experimentation" (to use Schweitzer's words) is necessary for the task of reconstructing Jesus's life. Although most scholars today characterize the Gospels as a form of Graeco-Roman biography rather than sui generis literature, they nevertheless have continued this quest for new methodologies. This has left historical Jesus studies in a problematic methodological state. In this book, Zolondek argues that if the Gospels are indeed types of Graeco-Roman biographies of Jesus, then no such experimentation is necessary. Rather, historical Jesus scholars should instead be adopting the standard methodological practices that historians and classicists have for decades used to effectively reconstruct the lives of other ancient persons who were also the subjects of Graeco-Roman biographies. After providing examples of three such methodological practices, Zolondek goes on to offer suggestions as to how scholars might apply them to the study of Jesus and, in doing so, end their long-running methodological quest.

Author : Paul W. Barnett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532651045

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Making the Gospels by Paul W. Barnett Pdf

The Gospels are the most important texts of the Bible because they tell the story about Jesus—who he was and what he achieved. If we did not have the Gospels, the prophecies about the Messiah in the Old Testament would be left hanging and the passing references in the apostles’ letters would leave us baffled about the identity of this mysterious figure, Jesus. During the past several hundred years some scholars have implied that key figures from the first century had conspired to present a Jesus who was different from Jesus as he really was—Paul, Mark, and the editor of the so-called “Q” document. The real Jesus, it is claimed, was not a redeemer but a charismatic rabbi or prophet. Paul Barnett engages with key advocates of a deconstructed Jesus by attempting to work out historically just how the Gospels came to be written. As a result of this inquiry, a cogent picture emerges that explains many of the who, the when, and the why questions about the writing of the Gospels. Inevitably, however, because of our distance from that era, there are many details missing and many details that remain a mystery. But mystery does not imply conspiracy.

Author : Steven DeLay
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666732108

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Finding Meaning by Steven DeLay Pdf

The word “nihilism” today is everywhere. A staple of common speech ever since its coinage by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi in the eighteenth century, is there any other term of philosophical provenance more descriptive of our times? Finding Meaning: Essays on Philosophy, Nihilism, and the Death of God deepens the longstanding and ongoing debate about the problem of nihilism. Drawing upon a wide range of philosophical and theological schools, traditions, and figures, the eleven specially commissioned essays by international scholars enrich the discussion of how to meet the challenge of nihilism. Fundamental problems and topics include the existence of God, the origins and status of morality, the nature and meaning of history, the relation between reason and faith, the status and role of philosophical knowledge, the place of art and religion in society, the future of modernity, the nature of postmodernity, the perils of technology, the specter of transhumanism, and the history of philosophy from Augustine to Kant and Hegel, Nietzsche to Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky, and Heidegger to Sartre and Camus. Based on a popular series of online essays published at London artist and philosopher Richard Marshall’s 3:16 AM, Finding Meaning is essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy and theology, and for anyone with a genuine interest in making sense of what it means to be human in an age of nihilism.

Author : Christy Cobb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030056896

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Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives by Christy Cobb Pdf

This book examines slavery and gender through a feminist reading of narratives including female slaves in the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, and early Christian texts. Through the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the voices of three enslaved female characters—the female slave who questions Peter in Luke 22, Rhoda in Acts 12, and the prophesying slave of Acts 16—are placed into dialogue with female slaves found in the Apocryphal Acts, ancient novels, classical texts, and images of enslaved women on funerary monuments. Although ancients typically distrusted the words of slaves, Christy Cobb argues that female slaves in Luke-Acts speak truth to power, even though their gender and status suggest that they cannot. In this Bakhtinian reading, female slaves become truth-tellers and their words confirm aspects of Lukan theology. This exegetical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary book is a substantial contribution to conversations about women and slaves in Luke-Acts and early Christian literature.

Author : Mark Giacobbe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004540286

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Luke the Chronicler by Mark Giacobbe Pdf

This book proposes a fresh understanding of the literary composition of Luke-Acts. Picking up on the ancient practice of literary mimesis, the author argues that Luke’s two-part narrative is subtly but significantly modeled on the two-part narrative found in the books of Samuel-Kings and Chronicles. Specifically, Luke’s gospel presents Jesus as the promised, ultimate Davidide, while the Book of Acts presents the disciples of Jesus as the heirs of the kingdom of David. In addition to the proposal concerning the composition of Luke-Acts, the book offers compelling insights on the genre of Luke-Acts and the purpose of Acts.

Author : M. John-Patrick O’Connor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567705617

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The Moral Life According to Mark by M. John-Patrick O’Connor Pdf

M. John-Patrick O'Connor proposes that - in contrast to recent contemporary scholarship that rarely focuses on the ethical implications of discipleship and Christology - Mark's Gospel, as our earliest life of Jesus, presents a theological description of the moral life. Arguing for Mark's ethical validity in comparison to Matthew and Luke, O'Connor begins with an analysis of the moral environment of ancient biographies, exploring what types of Jewish and Greco-Romanic conceptions of morality found their way into Hellenistic biographies. Turning to the Gospel's own examples of morality, O'Connor examines moral accountability according to Mark, including moral reasoning, the nature of a world in conflict, and accountability in both God's family and to God's authority. He then turns to images of the accountable self, including an analysis of virtues and virtuous practices within the Gospel. O'Connor concludes with the personification of evil, human responsibility, punitive consequences, and evil's role in Mark's moral landscape.