Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av John M.G. Barclay, Kylie Crabbe, John M. G. Barclay

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The contributors to this volume take as their theme the reception of Jewish traditions in early Christianity, and the ways in which the meaning of these traditions changed as they were put to work in new contexts and for new social ends. Special emphasis is placed on the internal variety and malleability of these traditions, which underwent continual processes of change within Judaism, and on reception as an active, strategic, and interested process. All the essays in this volume seek to bring out how acts of reception contribute to the social formation of early Christianity, in its social imagination (its speech and thought about itself) or in its social practices, or both. This volume challenges static notions of tradition and passive ideas of ‘reception’, stressing creativity and the significance of ‘strong’ readings of tradition. It thus complicates standard narratives of ‘the parting of the ways’ between ‘Christianity’ and ‘Judaism’, showing how even claims to continuity were bound to make the same different.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-23
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567702722

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Preface AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction – John Barclay, University of Durham, UK and Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, AustraliaI. The Reception of Jewish Texts Chapter One. The Early Christian Reception of the Legend of the Greek Translation of the Scriptures – Judith Lieu, University of Cambridge, UKChapter Two: The Law and Prophets as Origen’s Gospel – Devin White, Australian Catholic University, AustraliaChapter Three: The Reception of the Watchers in Tertullian with regard to 1 Cor 11:2-16 – Stephen Carlson, Australian Catholic University, AustraliaII. The Reception of Jewish Themes, Images, and CategoriesChapter Four: ‘Not Like the Gentiles Who Do Not Know God’ (1 Thess 4:5). The Function of Othering and Anti-Pagan Stereotypes of Sexual Wrongdoing in Early Jewish and Christian Texts – Christine Gerber, University of Hamburg, GermanyChapter Five: Patterns of Christian Reinterpretations of the Maccabean Martyrs – Jan Willem van Henten, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsChapter Six: ‘The Blind and the Lame’: An Adapted Category in Early Christian Communal Self-understanding – Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, AustraliaChapter Seven: The Ethics of Eden: Luxury, Banqueting, and the New Jerusalem – Candida Moss, University of Birmingham, UKChapter Eight: Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Trypho: Jewish Leadership and Jesus Traditions in Justin’s Construal of Christian and Jewish Identity – Benjamin Edsall, Australian Catholic University, AustraliaIII. The Reception of Jewish PracticesChapter Nine: Denial of Forgiveness and the Spirit: ‘Anxiety of Influence’ and the Christian Demotion of John’s Baptism – Joel Marcus, Duke Divinity School, USAChapter Ten: Tradition and Authority in Scribal Culture: A Comparison Between the Ya?adic Dead Sea Scroll texts and the Gospel of Matthew – Loren Stuckenbruck, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, GermanyChapter Eleven: Remember the Poor: Early Christian Refocusing of a Jewish Communal Responsibility – John M.G. Barclay, University of Durham, UKBibliography Indexes