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This is the first book about the meals of Early Judaism. As such it
breaks important new ground in establishing the basis for
understanding the centrality of meals in this pivotal period of
Judaism and providing a framework of historical patterns and
influences.
This is the first book about the meals of Early Judaism. As such it
breaks important new ground in establishing the basis for
understanding the centrality of meals in this pivotal period of
Judaism and providing a framework of historical patterns and
influences.
Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels
influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits
break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious
texts. The authors avoid traditional dogmatic assumptions, and use
the Gospel of Mark as a resource for coping and healing.
The story of Mark is one of trauma and loss, but also one of
healing and provisional selfhood. These themes reoccur time and
time again throughout modern-day films, sculptures, graphic novels,
and electronic media. By examining these contemporary
interpretations of this particular early Christian gospel, this
book breaks new ground in ways of understanding traditional
religious texts. The authors use the Gospel of Mark as a resource
enabling traumatized persons or groups to resist capitulation and
restore at least partial identity, and do so in a way that avoids
traditional theological or dogmatic assumptions. While not claiming
the Gospel of Mark as the definitive or complete answer to
experiences of pain and loss, this book models new ways of reading
it for coping and healing.
This book provides three categories of investigation: 1) The
Typology and Context of the Greco-Roman Banquet, 2) Who Was at the
Greco-Roman Banquets, and 3) The Culture of Reclining. Together
these studies establish festive meals as an essential lens into
social formation in the Greco-Roman world.
In the past 20 years, a new paradigm has emerged around the
study of festive dining as a seminal social practice that
functioned as the matrix for the social formation of a variety of
groups in the Greco-Roman world, including earliest Christianity
and pre-Rabbinic Judaism. Most recently, an international team of
scholars, organized as the Society of Biblical Literature Seminar
on Meals in the Greco-Roman World, has developed this paradigm in a
series of groundbreaking studies. This volume provides a collection
of those studies in four areas of focus: The Typology of the
Greco-Roman Banquet; The Archeology of the Banquet; Who Was at the
Greco-Roman Banquets?; and The Culture of Reclining. Together they
establish festive meals as an essential lens into social formation
in the Greco-Roman world.
This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag
Hammadi text, The Thunder: Perfect Mind - a poem of 'I am'
statements that has garnered a strong following in mainstream
culture. This book offers a fresh, current translation (with
detailed Coptic annotations) and ten chapters of introductory
analysis of the text.
"This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag
Hammadi text, The Thunder: Perfect Mind - a poem of "I am"
statements that has garnered a strong following in mainstream
culture. This book offers a fresh, current translation (with
detailed Coptic annotations) and ten chapters of introductory
analysis of the text. Approaching the text from socio-historical,
literary, and postmodern gender-theoretical frameworks, the editors
situate Thunder as an early Christian text - away from the now
suspect category of "Gnosticism" - and offer conclusions on its
possible ancient meanings, as well as its interpretive
possibilities for the present moment"--Provided by publisher.
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