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The contributions in this volume are focused on the historical
origins, religious provenance, and social function of ancient
Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including so-called
'Gnostic' writings. Although it is disputed whether there was a
genre of 'apocalyptic literature,' it is obvious that numerous
texts from ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and other religious
milieus share a specific view of history and the world to come.
Many of these writings are presented in form of a heavenly (divine)
revelation, mediated through an otherworldly figure (like an angel)
to an elected human being who discloses this revelation to his
recipients in written form. In different strands of early Judaism,
ancient Christianity as well as in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and
Islam, apocalyptic writings played an important role from early on
and were produced also in later centuries. One of the most
characteristic features of these texts is their specific
interpretation of history, based on the knowledge about the upper,
divine realm and the world to come. Against this background the
volume deals with a wide range of apocalyptic texts from different
periods and various religious backgrounds.
The second century CE has often been described as a kind of dark
period with regard to our knowledge of how the earliest Christian
writings (the gospels and Paul's letters) were transmitted and
gradually came to be accepted as authoritative and then, later on,
as "canonical". At the same time a number of other Christian texts,
of various genres, saw the light. Some of these seem to be familiar
with the gospels, or perhaps rather with gospel traditions
identical or similar to those that found their way into the NT
gospels. The volume focuses on representative texts and authors of
the time in order to see how they have struggled to find a way to
work with the NT gospels and/or the traditions behind these, while
at the same time giving a place also to other extra-canonical
traditions. It studies in a comparative way the reception of
identifiably "canonical" and of extra-canonical traditions in the
second century. It aims at discovering patterns or strategies of
reception within the at first sight often rather chaotic way some
of these ancient authors have cited or used these traditions. And
it will look for explanations of why it took such a while before
authors got used to cite gospel texts (more or less) accurately.
The volume deals with interpretations of Paul, his person and his
letters, in various early Christian writings. Some of those,
written in the name of Paul, became part of the New Testament,
others are included among "Ancient Christian Apocrypha", still
others belong to the collection called "The Apostolic Fathers".
Impacts of Paul are also discernible in early collections of his
letters which became an important part of the New Testament canon.
This process, resulting in the "canonical Paul", is also considered
in this collection.
The present volume is based on a conference held in October 2019 at
the Faculty of Theology of Humboldt University Berlin as part of a
common project of the Australian Catholic University, the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Humboldt University Berlin.
The aim is to discuss the relationships of "Jews" and "Christians"
in the first two centuries CE against the background of recent
debates which have called into question the image of "parting ways"
for a description of the relationships of Judaism and Christianity
in antiquity. One objection raised against this metaphor is that it
accentuates differences at the expense of commonalities. Another
critique is that this image looks from a later perspective at
historical developments which can hardly be grasped with such a
metaphor. It is more likely that distinctions between Jews,
Christians, Jewish Christians, Christian Jews etc. are more blurred
than the image of "parting ways" allows. In light of these
considerations the contributions in this volume discuss the cogency
of the "parting of the ways"-model with a look at prominent early
Christian writers and places and suggest more appropriate metaphors
to describe the relationships of Jews and Christians in the early
period.
This book deals with the connection between media and the future.
It is about the imagination of futuristic media and what this says
about the present, but it also shows how media are imagined as
means to control the future. The book begins by describing
different theories of the evolution of media and by exploring how
this evolution is tied to expectations regarding the future. The
authors discuss the theories of imagination and how the imagination
of media futures operates. To do so, they analyse four concrete
examples: the imaginations once related to interactive television
and how they were performed in an important piece of media art;
those on "ubiquitous computing," which remain present today; those
on three-dimensional, especially holographic, displays that are
prevalent everywhere in cinema, and lastly the contemporary
imaginations on quantum computing and how they have been enacted in
science fiction. The book appeals to readers interested in the
question of how our present imagines its technological futures.
There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and
aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the
three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image. It has been widely used
in the 20th century for very different practices - military,
scientific and medical visualization - precisely because it can
provide more spatial information. And now in the 21st century,
television and film are employing the method even more. Appearing
for the first time in English, Jens Schroeter's comprehensive study
of the aesthetics of the 3D image is a major scholarly addition to
this evolving field. Citing case studies from the history of both
technology and the arts, this wide-ranging and authoritative book
charts the development in the theory and practice of
three-dimensional images. Discussing and analyzing the
transformation of the socio-cultural and technological milieu,
Schroeter has produced a work of scholarship that combines
impressive historical scope with contemporary theoretical
arguments.
"The Making of the Bible is invaluable for anyone interested in
Scripture and in the intertwined histories of Judaism and
Christianity." -John Barton, author of A History of the Bible: The
Book and Its Faiths The authoritative new account of the Bible's
origins, illuminating the 1,600-year tradition that shaped the
Christian and Jewish holy books as millions know them today. The
Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that
begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account, a
world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost
authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book
of Books, reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories,
as well as the underappreciated contest between them, from which
the Bible arose. Recent scholarship has overturned popular
assumptions about Israel's past, suggesting, for instance, that the
five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the
reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are
also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schroeter reveal the
long, transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to
inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament, the authors show,
did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone.
Rather the two evolved in parallel, in conversation with each
other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and
Christian traditions. Indeed, Schmid and Schroeter argue that
Judaism might not have survived had it not been reshaped in
competition with early Christianity. A remarkable synthesis of the
latest Old and New Testament scholarship, The Making of the Bible
is the most comprehensive history yet told of the world's
best-known literature, revealing its buried lessons and secrets.
The second century CE has often been described as a kind of dark
period with regard to our knowledge of how the earliest Christian
writings (the gospels and Paul's letters) were transmitted and
gradually came to be accepted as authoritative and then, later on,
as "canonical". At the same time a number of other Christian texts,
of various genres, saw the light. Some of these seem to be familiar
with the gospels, or perhaps rather with gospel traditions
identical or similar to those that found their way into the NT
gospels. The volume focuses on representative texts and authors of
the time in order to see how they have struggled to find a way to
work with the NT gospels and/or the traditions behind these, while
at the same time giving a place also to other extra-canonical
traditions. It studies in a comparative way the reception of
identifiably "canonical" and of extra-canonical traditions in the
second century. It aims at discovering patterns or strategies of
reception within the at first sight often rather chaotic way some
of these ancient authors have cited or used these traditions. And
it will look for explanations of why it took such a while before
authors got used to cite gospel texts (more or less) accurately.
The volume deals with interpretations of Paul, his person and his
letters, in various early Christian writings. Some of those,
written in the name of Paul, became part of the New Testament,
others are included among "Ancient Christian Apocrypha", still
others belong to the collection called "The Apostolic Fathers".
Impacts of Paul are also discernible in early collections of his
letters which became an important part of the New Testament canon.
This process, resulting in the "canonical Paul", is also considered
in this collection.
St. Thomasa (TM)s Gospel is one of the most hotly debated documents
from Early Christianity. No other piece of extra-canonical
scripture has given rise to such controversy about whether it
presents Jesusa (TM) message in a more original and less
theologically sophisticated form than the New Testament Gospels.
The papers collected in the present volume give an insight into the
present state of research and demonstrate new perspectives on the
question of the status of the various texts and traditions of St.
Thomasa (TM)s Gospel in the history of religion.
In recent discussions, increasing attention has been focussed on
the question of how knowledge and the interpretation of reality
come about. This volume presents a collection of papers dealing
with this topic from historiological, philosophical and theological
perspectives. In this way, a dialogue is conducted which transcends
the boundaries of specialist disciplines and places the problem in
a broader humanities perspective.
This collection offers an extensive framework of comparative and
individual studies assessing the place of Luke-Acts in the
historiography of ancient Judaism and the Greco-Roman world, whilst
also examining further developments in early Christian
historiography up to Eusebius and Theodoret. Additional
contributions concentrate on systematic questions concerning the
literary genre and conception of Luke-Acts.
This book deals with the connection between media and the future.
It is about the imagination of futuristic media and what this says
about the present, but it also shows how media are imagined as
means to control the future. The book begins by describing
different theories of the evolution of media and by exploring how
this evolution is tied to expectations regarding the future. The
authors discuss the theories of imagination and how the imagination
of media futures operates. To do so, they analyse four concrete
examples: the imaginations once related to interactive television
and how they were performed in an important piece of media art;
those on "ubiquitous computing," which remain present today; those
on three-dimensional, especially holographic, displays that are
prevalent everywhere in cinema, and lastly the contemporary
imaginations on quantum computing and how they have been enacted in
science fiction. The book appeals to readers interested in the
question of how our present imagines its technological futures.
This volume presents a collection of papers by scholars from Europe
and the USA on a question which is currently again the subject of
intensive discussion - the figure of the historical Jesus. One main
problem is that of methodology - how in general can history be
constructed from texts, how is it possible in this particular case
to draw a picture of Jesus the person from the texts about him?
This question is placed within the wider context of epistemological
and historiographical enquiry. A further major question is that of
the relationship between Jesus' work and the development of the
Christian faith. Whereas earlier scholars often saw a gap between
the two, many of the present contributors put forward a different
point of view. In addition, a number of questions of detail are
treated which are important for research into the historical Jesus
(the law, Jesus' concept of death, judgement and salvation).
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The Jesus Handbook (Hardcover)
Jens Schroeter, Christine Jacobi; Translated by Robert L Brawley; Foreword by Dale C. Allison
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The late 20th century was a formative phase in the history of
digital media culture. The introduction of "new media" was
associated with promises for the future that still resonate today.
This book brings together contributions that discuss key aspects of
the "imaginaries" surrounding new media in this epoch. The focus is
on the works of the media artist group Van Gogh-TV, especially the
historically very important interactive television project "Piazza
virtuale" (1992).
In The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries, Chris L.
Keith, Helen K. Bond, Christine Jacobi and Jens Schroeter, together
with an international cast of more than 70 contributors, provide a
methodologically sophisticated resource, showing the reception
history of Jesus and the Jesus tradition in early Christianity. The
three volumes focus upon the diversity of receptions of the Jesus
tradition in this time period, with memory theory providing the
framework for approaching the complex interactions between the past
of the tradition and the present of its receptions. Rather than
addressing texts specifically as canonical or non-canonical, the
volumes show the more complex reality of the reception of the Jesus
tradition in early Christianity. Core literary texts such as
Gospels and other early Christian writings are discussed in detail,
as well as non-literary contexts outside the gospel genre;
including the Apostolic Fathers, patristic writers, traditions such
as the Abgar Legend, and modifications to the gospel genre such as
the Diatesseron. Evidence from material culture, such as
pictographic representations of Jesus in iconography and graffiti
(e.g. the staurogram and Alexamenos Graffito), as well as
representations of Jesus tradition in sarcophagi and in liturgy are
also included, in order to fully reflect the transmission and
reception of the Jesus tradition. Volume 1 provides an extensive
introduction and, in 18 chapters, covers literary representations
of Jesus in the first century, featuring gospel literature and
other early Christian writings. Volume 2 examines all the literary
texts from the second and third centuries, across 40 chapters,
examining both gospel writing and other texts. Volume 3 examines
visual, liturgical and non-Christian receptions of Jesus in the
second and third centuries, across 24 chapters.
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Lost in Media, 19 (Paperback)
Benjamin Beil, Lorenz Engell, Jens Schroeter, Herbert Schwaab, Daniela Wentz
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The television series LOST initiated a wide-ranging academic debate
which centered on its narrative and temporal complexity, while also
addressing the massive expansion into other media and consequently
crossing established genre categories. This expansion poses the
essential question about the status of the original medium
(television) within recent multiple media configurations. Can LOST
be regarded as a symptom of television in the process of media
change? What is the relation between LOST's temporality and that of
television in general? And how can LOST be understood as a
phenomenon of mediatized worlds? The contributions in this book
examine these questions. The book's editors are members of the
project "TV Series as Reflection and Projection of Change," which
is part of the DFG Priority Program 1505: "Mediatized Worlds."
(Series: Medien'welten. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur -
Vol. 19)
Von Geld uber Brief und Comic bis Radio, Video und mobile Medien
welchen Platz nehmen diese Themen in den Medienwissenschaften ein?
Das Handbuch stellt Begriffe und Theorien vor, darunter
systemtheoretische Theorien, die Medienarchaologie und die
Akteur-Medien-Theorie. Es verknupft die einzelnen Medien mit der
Theorie und macht die vielfaltigen Bezuge deutlich. Es zeigt auch
die Schnittstellen zu anderen Disziplinen, wie z. B. zur Theater-
und Musikwissenschaft oder zu Medienrecht, -psychologie und
-padagogik.
Der Band bietet die erste Einfuhrung in Konzepte der Imagination
zukunftiger Medientechnologien. Ausgehend von der sozialen
Transformation durch neue Medien wird die interdisziplinare Debatte
um die Vorstellbarmachung zukunftiger Medien vorgestellt. Im
Durchgang durch etablierte Theorien aus Philosophie, Medientheorie,
Sozialtheorie sowie Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung wird
aufgezeigt, welchen breiten Einfluss Prozesse der Imagination, etwa
in Gestalt von Narrativen wie in der Science Fiction, fur die
Diskursivierung und Konzeptualisierung von (digitalen)
Medientechnologien haben.
Mit der Bezeichnung Ambient verbinden sich jene zugleich
unaufdringlichen wie hoerintensiven Klange und Klangfolgen, die der
Musikproduzent Brian Eno als Spielart popularer Musik etabliert
hat. Dieser Band fragt, wie der Einfluss der Ambient Music (=
Hintergrundmusik) zu beschreiben ist. Ausserdem fragt er nach den
UEbertragungen: Lasst sich das Konzept des Ambient auch als eine
AEsthetik des Hintergrunds begreifen, das sich auch auf andere,
ahnlich gelagerte Phanomene ausweiten lasst? Etwa auf Literatur
oder Film, Computergraphik oder Flugzeugkabinen?
There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and
aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the
three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image. It has been widely used
in the 20th century for very different practices - military,
scientific and medical visualization - precisely because it can
provide more spatial information. And now in the 21st century,
television and film are employing the method even more. Appearing
for the first time in English, Jens Schroeter's comprehensive study
of the aesthetics of the 3D image is a major scholarly addition to
this evolving field. Citing case studies from the history of both
technology and the arts, this wide-ranging and authoritative book
charts the development in the theory and practice of
three-dimensional images. Discussing and analyzing the
transformation of the socio-cultural and technological milieu,
Schroeter has produced a work of scholarship that combines
impressive historical scope with contemporary theoretical
arguments.
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