Author : John M. G. Barclay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1996-06-28
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0521462851
Examines the continuity between early Christianity and Judaism - the focus of much controversy.
Author : James F. McGrath
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0252091892
Monotheism is a powerful religious concept shaped by competing ideas and the problems they raised. Surveying New Testament writings and Jewish sources from before and after the rise of Christianity, James F. McGrath argues that even the most developed Christologies in the New Testament fit within the context of first century Jewish monotheism. McGrath pinpoints when the parting of ways took place over the issue of God's oneness, and explores philosophical ideas such as "creation out of nothing" which caused Jews and Christians to develop differing concepts and definitions about God.
Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2005-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467425044
In How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Larry Hurtado investigates the intense devotion to Jesus that emerged with surprising speed after his death. Reverence for Jesus among early Christians, notes Hurtado, included both grand claims about Jesus' significance and a pattern of devotional practices that effectively treated him as divine. This book argues that whatever one makes of such devotion to Jesus, the subject deserves serious historical consideration. Mapping out the lively current debate about Jesus, Hurtado explains the evidence, issues, and positions at stake. He goes on to treat the opposition to -- and severe costs of -- worshiping Jesus, the history of incorporating such devotion into Jewish monotheism, and the role of religious experience in Christianity's development out of Judaism. The follow-up to Hurtado's award-winningLord Jesus Christ (2003), this book provides compelling answers to queries about the development of the church's belief in the divinity of Jesus.
Author : David Flusser
Publisher : Mod Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9789650504663
Author : Magnus Zetterholm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134425295
And conclusion3 THE CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS DIFFERENTIATION; Introduction; Constructing analytical tools; A theory of religious differentiation; Religion and value-changing processes; Muslims and religious change in modern Europe; Pluralism and religious differentiation; A theory of social integration; Variables of assimilation; The process of assimilation; The assimilation profile-a test case; The use of acculturation; Analysis-Antiochean Judaism revealed; Groups and factions; Crossing the boundaries-Antiochus the apostate; Observing torah-religious traditionalists.
Author : Roger T. Beckwith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004146032
This is a wide-ranging book, dealing with many topics of current interest in relation to the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Jewish and Christian Worship and their links, the religious Calendar, ancient Chronology, the Old Testament Psalter and New Testament eschatology.
Author : Robert J. Daly
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801036275
This new addition to the Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History series explores early Christian views on apocalyptic themes.
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802822215
New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
Author : Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567082930
Early Christology must focus not simply on "historical" but also on theological ideas found in contemporary Jewish thought and practice. In this book, a range of distinguished contributors considers the context and formation of early Jewish and Christian devotion to God alone—the emergence of "monotheism". The idea of monotheism is critically examined from various perspectives, including the history of ideas, Graeco-Roman religions, early Jewish mediator figures, scripture exegesis, and the history of its use as a theological category. The studies explore different ways of conceiving of early Christian monotheism today, asking whether monotheism is a conceptually useful category, whether it may be applied cautiously and with qualifications, or whether it is to be questioned in favor of different approaches to understanding the origins of Jewish and Christian beliefs and worship. This is volume 1 in the Early Christianity in Context series and volume 263 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series>
Author : Maia Kotrosits
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451494262
Maia Kotrosits challenges the contemporary notion of “early Christian literature,” showing that a number of texts usually so described—including Hebrews, Acts, the Gospel of John, Colossians, 1 Peter, the letters of Ignatius, the Gospel of Truth, and the Secret Revelation of John—are “not particularly interested” in a distinctive Christian identity. By appealing to trauma studies and diaspora theory and giving careful attention to the dynamics within these texts, she shows that this sample of writings offers complex reckonings with chaotic diasporic conditions and the transgenerational trauma of colonial violence.
