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Conflicting Mythologies - Identity Formation in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew (Paperback, New edition)
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Conflicting Mythologies - Identity Formation in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew (Paperback, New edition)
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A cultural and anthropological interpretation of Mark and Matthew,
which examines their contribution to the formation of early
Christian identity, world-view and ethos. John Riches studies the
notions of sacred space and ethnicity in the Gospel narratives. He
shows how early Christian group identity emerged through a dynamic
process of reshaping traditional Jewish symbols and motifs
associated with descent, kinship and territory. Ideas about descent
from Abraham and the return from exile to Mount Zion are interwoven
into early Christian traditions about Jesus and in the process
substantially reshaped to produce different senses of identity. At
the same time, he argues, the Evangelists were attempting to set
forth a view of the world in a dialogue with the two opposing
cosmologies current in Jewish culture of the time: one, cosmic
dualist, the other, forensic. Riches shows how these two very
different accounts of the origin and final overcoming of evil both
inform Mark and Matthew's narratives and contribute to the richness
and ambiguity of the texts and of the communities which sprang up
around them.
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