The Narrative Self in Early Christianity

The Narrative Self in Early Christianity
Author: Janet E. Spittler
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0884143988

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Essays that explore early Christian texts and the broader world in which they were written This volume of twelve essays celebrates the contributions of classicist Judith Perkins to the study of early Christianity. Drawing on Perkins's insights related to apocryphal texts, representations of pain and suffering, and the creation of meaning, contributors explore the function of Christian narratives that depict pain and suffering, the motivations of the early Christians who composed these stories, and their continuing value to contemporary people. Contributors also examine how narratives work to create meaning in a religious context. These contributions address these issues from a variety of angles through a wide range of texts. Features: Introductions to and treatments of several largely unknown early Christian texts Essays by ten women and two men influenced or mentored by Judith Perkins Essays on the Deuterocanon, the New Testament, and early Christian relics

The Suffering Self

The Suffering Self
Author: Judith Perkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134798954

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The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to early Christians. This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the study of early Christianity, seeing Christian representation in the context of the Greco-Roman world. She draws parallels with suffering heroines in Greek novels and in martyr acts and examines representations in medical and philosophical texts. Judith Perkins' controversial study is important reading for all those interested in ancient society, or in the history `f Christianity.

The Suffering Self

The Suffering Self
Author: Judith Perkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134798946

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The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to early Christians. This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the study of early Christianity, seeing Christian representation in the context of the Greco-Roman world. She draws parallels with suffering heroines in Greek novels and in martyr acts and examines representations in medical and philosophical texts. Judith Perkins' controversial study is important reading for all those interested in ancient society, or in the history `f Christianity.

Identity, Memory, and Narrative in Early Christianity

Identity, Memory, and Narrative in Early Christianity
Author: Coleman A. Baker
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781498256544

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Description: Social identity, social memory, and narrative theory intersect in this study of the characterization of Peter and Paul in the book of Acts. Baker argues that the authorial audience's memories of Peter and Paul are reinterpreted as their characters are encountered in the narrative, and as a result, the audience is to understand themselves as united by a superordinate ingroup identity that transcends cultural boundaries. As prototypes of this common identity, the characters of Peter and Paul demonstrate the open, inclusive identity the audience is expected to embrace. Endorsements: ""Coleman Baker employs a sophisticated and insight-producing method to examine the function of the characters Peter and Paul in Acts as prototypes of a reconciled identity for a divided and conflicted movement. Baker's study is a significant contribution toward understanding the social and literary components of identity formation in the early Christian movement."" -Warren Carter Professor of New Testament Brite Divinity School About the Contributor(s): Coleman A. (J.C.) Baker received his PhD in New Testament from Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. He is Adjunct Professor of New Testament at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, and a member of the Context Group, which studies the Bible in its sociocultural context.

The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections

The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections
Author: Marília Futre Pinheiro
Publisher: Barkhuis
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2013-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9491431218

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This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth. All the papers were originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel in Lisbon Portugal in 2008. The papers emphasize historical contextualization and comparative methodologies and will appeal to all those interested in early Christianity, the Ancient novel, Roman imperial history, feminist studies, and canonization processes.

The World of Jesus and the Early Church

The World of Jesus and the Early Church
Author: Craig A. Evans
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1598568256

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Prominent scholars in the fields of Archaeology, New Testament Studies, and the Dead Sea Scrolls have come together in "The World of Jesus and the Early Church" to focus on early Jewish and Christian communities of faith and their impact on the collections of texts that were their scriptures (and would become, in due time, part of their various canons). Professors, students, and pastors who are interested in how these communities lived--how they developed, what they believed, and how they regarded and preserved the written documents that were their scripture--will be interested in this comprehensive volume drawn from presentations made to key conferences on the subject. This book's emphasis on a variety of communities of faith (not just Christian) and their early (and critical) influence on the development of religious canonical materials sets it apart from others on New Testament-period culture.

Rethinking Early Christian Identity

Rethinking Early Christian Identity
Author: Maia Kotrosits
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 1451492650

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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Union Theological Seminary, 2013 under title: Affect, violence, and belonging in early Christianity.

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Author: James H. Cone
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 160833001X

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A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America. "They put him to death by hanging him on a tree." Acts 10:39 The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Both the cross and the lynching tree represent the worst in human beings and at the same time a thirst for life that refuses to let the worst determine our final meaning. While the lynching tree symbolized white power and "black death," the cross symbolizes divine power and "black life" God overcoming the power of sin and death. For African Americans, the image of Jesus, hung on a tree to die, powerfully grounded their faith that God was with them, even in the suffering of the lynching era. In a work that spans social history, theology, and cultural studies, Cone explores the message of the spirituals and the power of the blues; the passion and of Emmet Till and the engaged vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.; he invokes the spirits of Billie Holliday and Langston Hughes, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Well, and the witness of black artists, writers, preachers, and fighters for justice. And he remembers the victims, especially the 5,000 who perished during the lynching period. Through their witness he contemplates the greatest challenge of any Christian theology to explain how life can be made meaningful in the face of death and injustice.

Mary, Mother of Martyrs

Mary, Mother of Martyrs
Author: Kathleen Gallagher Elkins
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2020-10-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725288478

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The Virgin Mary has been idealized as a self-sacrificing mother throughout Christian history, but she is not the only ancient maternal figure whose story is connected to violent loss. This book examines several ancient representations of mothers and children in contexts of sociopolitical violence, demonstrating that notions of early Christian motherhood, as today, are contextual and produced for various political, social, and ethical reasons. In each chapter, the ancient maternal figure is juxtaposed with an example of contemporary maternal activism to show that maternal self-sacrifice can be understood as strategic, varied, politically charged, and rhetorically flexible.

God's Self-confident Daughters

God's Self-confident Daughters
Author: Anne Jensen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664256722

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In this study, Anne Jensen provides an exhaustive account of the many roles that women played in the early church and their subsequent marginalization by the later church. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the history of the church and its impact on the lives of women throughout the ages.