"The Teaching of These Words": Intertextuality, Social Identity, and Early Christianity : Essays in Honor of Clayton N. Jefford /

"The Teaching of These Words": Intertextuality, Social Identity, and Early Christianity : Essays in Honor of Clayton N. Jefford /

What does it mean for a group to speak of its identity and, in contrast, to speak about the "other"? As with all groups, early Christian communities underwent a process of identity formation, and in this process, intertextuality played a role. The choice of biblical texts and imageries, th...

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Other Authors: Draper, Jonathan A. (Editor), Pardee, Nancy D. (Editor), Wilhite, Shawn J. (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
The Bible in Ancient Christianity ; 16

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Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Group identity.
Identification (Religion) 
Intertextuality.

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Call Number: BS538.7

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Table of Contents:
  • Clayton N. Jefford: A Brief Biography
  •   Susan Sanders Jefford
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  •   Shawn J. Wilhite
  • 1 Diverse and Contrasting Values of Priesthood in Second-Century Christian Texts
  •   Joseph G. Mueller, S.J.
  • 2 The Social Identity of the Travelers between the Early Communities of Jesus-Followers
  •   Thomas O'Loughlin
  • 3 Ritual Practice and Identity Formation in Early Christianity
  •   Jonathan Schwiebert
  • 4 "An Image in Place of an Image": the Search for Meaning and the Formation of Identity
  •   Stephen J. Patterson
  • 5 Paul's Epistle to the Romans and the Catechesis of Gentiles in the Didache
  •   Jonathan A. Draper
  • 6 Salvation by One Step or Two? The Didache, Acts and the Background to Galatians
  •   Alan Garrow
  • 7 The "Yoke of the Lord" and the Community of the Didache, The Debate Continues
  •   Nancy D. Pardee
  • 8 "You Must Love Those Who Hate You": Social Oppression and the Sectio evangelica in the Didache's Two Ways
  •   Shawn J. Wilhite
  • 9 Reading Community: Election, Salvation History, and Christian Identity in 1 Clement
  •   Stephen O. Presley
  • 10 Abraham's 318 Circumcised Men and the Figure of Eliezer (Lazarus) in Barnabas 9.8
  •   Clare K. Rothschild
  • 11 Ritual Practice and Social Formation in Mark and Ignatius of Antioch
  •   Charles A. Bobertz
  • 12 Christian Identity through a Threefold Declaration in the Martyrdom of Polycarp
  •   Paul Anthony Hartog
  • 13 Apocalyptic and Social Identity in the Second Century: Irenaeus's Reading of John's Apocalypse
  •   D. Jeffrey Bingham
  • Clayton N. Jefford's Academic Publications and Contributions
  • Index.