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The nature and origin of Jewish mysticism is a controversial
subject. This volume explores the subject by examining both the
Hebrew and Aramaic tradition (Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Enoch) and the
Greek philosophical tradition (Philo) and also examines the
Christian transformation of Jewish mysticism in Paul and
Revelation. It provides for a nuanced treatment that differentiates
different strands of thought that may be considered mystical. The
Hebrew tradition is mythical in nature and concerned with various
ways of being in the presence of God. The Greek tradition allows
for a greater degree of unification and participation in the
divine. The New Testament texts are generally closer to the Greek
tradition, although Greek philosophy would have a huge effect on
later Christian mysticism. The book is intended for scholars and
advanced students of ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
There are many English commentaries on these letters, but none so
replete with quotations (some quite extensive) from extra-biblical
materials, whether Hellenistic, Jewish, or Christian, that bear on
the linguistic and conceptual problems the letters contain.
A fascinating reception history of the theological, ethical, and
social themes in the letters of Paul In the first decades after the
death of Jesus, the letters of the apostle Paul were the chief
written resource for Christian believers, as well as for those
seeking to formulate Christian thought and practice. But in the
years following Paul's death, the early church witnessed a
proliferation of contested-and often opposing-interpretations of
his writings, as teaching was passed down, debated, and codified.
In this engaging study, Adela Yarbro Collins traces the reception
history of major theological, ethical, and social topics in the
letters of Paul from the days of his apostleship through the first
centuries of Christianity. She explores the evolution of Paul's
cosmic eschatology, his understanding of the resurrected body,
marriage and family ethics, the role of women in the early church,
and his theology of suffering. Paying special attention to the ways
these evolving interpretations provided frameworks for church
governance, practice, and tradition, Collins illuminates the ways
that Paul's ideas were understood, challenged, and ultimately
transformed by their earliest audiences.
This book traces the history of the idea that the king and later
the messiah is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern
royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testament.
Both highly regarded scholars, Adela Yarbro Collins and John J.
Collins argue that Jesus was called "the Son of God" precisely
because he was believed to be the messianic king. This belief and
tradition, they contend, led to the identification of Jesus as
preexistent, personified Wisdom, or a heavenly being in the New
Testament canon. However, the titles Jesus is given are historical
titles tracing back to Egyptian New Kingdom ideology. Therefore the
title "Son of God" is likely solely messianic and not literal. King
and Messiah as Son of God is distinctive in its range, spanning
both Testaments and informed by ancient Near Eastern literature and
Jewish noncanonical literature.
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Philippians (Paperback)
Paul A. Holloway; Edited by Adela Yarbro Collins
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R1,228
Discovery Miles 12 280
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Paul A. Holloway is University Professor of Classics and Ancient
Christianity at Sewanee: The University of the South, the author of
Coping with Prejudice: 1 Peter in Social Psychological Perspective
(2009) and Consolation in Philippians (2001) and the editor of
Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (2010).
For the first time in complete form, the results of recent
analyses of the Apocalypse are presented in a way that is easily
understood by the beginning student and challenging to the scholar
looking for a fresh approach. In a clear and vivid manner, Adela
Yarbro Collins discusses the authorship of the book of Revelation,
when it was written, the situation it addressed, the social themes
it considered, and the psychological meaning behind apocalyptic
language.
Misunderstanding abounds concerning this strange and complex book
of the New Testament. This interpretation is written in the
conviction that the key to understanding this work is its literary
form: revelatory narrative and allegorical narrative. It reveals
the structure of the narrative and its basic underlying pattern of
persecution, judgment and salvation. It shares with us the message
that even as Christ passed through suffering and death to the
resurrection beyond, so too may we.
The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current
thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in
contemporary struggles for social justice - either as inspiration
or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of
leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling resources for
thinking biblically about what justice is and what it demands.
Individual essays treat key debates, themes, and texts, locating
each within its historical and cultural settings while also linking
them to the most pressing justice concerns of the twenty-first
century. The volume aims to challenge academic and ecclesiastical
complacency and highlight key avenues for future scholarship and
action.
Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes
important aspects of identity formation processes within early
Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving
issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and
institution building contributed to the forming of group
identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities
evolved into non-Jewish Christian identities, others into a
rabbinic Jewish identity, while yet others remained somewhere in
between. The contributors to this volume trace these developments
in archaeological remains as well as in texts from the Qumran
movement, the New Testament and the reception of Paul's writings,
rabbinic literature, and apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings,
such as the Book of Dreams and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The
long timespan covered in the volume together with the combined
expertise of scholars from various fields make this book a unique
contribution to research on group identity, Jewish and Christian
identity formation, the Partings-of-the-ways between Judaism and
Christianity, and interactions between Jews and Christians.
The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current
thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in
contemporary struggles for social justice - either as inspiration
or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of
leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling resources for
thinking biblically about what justice is and what it demands.
Individual essays treat key debates, themes, and texts, locating
each within its historical and cultural settings while also linking
them to the most pressing justice concerns of the twenty-first
century. The volume aims to challenge academic and ecclesiastical
complacency and highlight key avenues for future scholarship and
action.
Professor Adela Yarbro Collins brings to bear on the text of the
first Gospel the latest historical-critical perspectives, providing
a full treatment of such controversial issues as the relationship
of canonical Mark to the "Secret Gospel of Mark" and the text of
the Gospel, including its longer endings. She situates the Gospel,
with its enigmatic portrait of the misunderstood Messiah, in the
context of Jewish and Greco-Roman literature of the first century.
Her comments draw on her profound knowledge of apocalyptic
literature as well as on the traditions of popular biography in the
Greco-Roman world to illuminate the overall literary form of the
Gospel. The commentary also introduces an impressive store of data
on the language and style of Mark, illustrated from papyrological
and epigraphical sources. Collins is in constructive dialogue with
the wide range of scholarship on Mark that has been produced in the
twentieth century. Her work will be foundational for Markan
scholarship in the first half of the twenty-first century.
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