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Resurrection and Reception in Early Christianity (Paperback)
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Resurrection and Reception in Early Christianity (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
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This book offers an original interpretation of the origin and early
reception of the most fundamental claim of Christianity: Jesus'
resurrection. Richard Miller contends that the earliest Christians
would not have considered the New Testament accounts of Jesus'
resurrection to be literal or historical, but instead would have
recognized this narrative as an instance of the trope of divine
translation, common within the Hellenistic and Roman mythic
traditions. Given this framework, Miller argues, early Christians
would have understood the resurrection story as fictitious rather
than historical in nature. By drawing connections between the
Gospels and ancient Greek and Roman literature, Miller makes the
case that the narratives of the resurrection and ascension of
Christ applied extensive and unmistakable structural and symbolic
language common to Mediterranean "translation fables," stock story
patterns derived particularly from the archetypal myths of Heracles
and Romulus. In the course of his argument, the author applies a
critical lens to the referential and mimetic nature of the Gospel
stories, and suggests that adapting the "translation fable" trope
to accounts of Jesus' resurrection functioned to exalt him to the
level of the heroes, demigods, and emperors of the Hellenistic and
Roman world. Miller's contentions have significant implications for
New Testament scholarship and will provoke discussion among
scholars of early Christianity and Classical studies.
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