Studies on the text of the New Testament and early Christianity : essays in honour of Michael W. Holmes on the occasion of his 65th birthday /
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The collection of essays focuses on the twin areas of research undertaken by Prof. Michael W. Holmes. These are the sub-disciplines of textual criticism and the study of the Apostolic Fathers. The first part of the volume on textual criticism focuses on issues of method, the praxis of editing and collating texts, and discussions pertaining to individual variants. The second part of the volume assembles essays on the Apostolic Fathers. There is a particular focus on the person and writings of Polycarp, since this is the area of research where Prof. Holmes has worked most intensively.
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1 online resource (xxiii, 706 pages) : portrait. :
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9789004300026 :
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Mapping Galilee in Josephus, Luke, and John : critical geography and the construction of an ancient space /
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The study of 1st century CE Galilee has become an important subfield within the broader disciplines of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. In Mapping Galilee , John M. Vonder Bruegge examines how Galilee is portrayed, both in ancient writings and current scholarship, as a variously mapped space using insights from critical geography as an evaluative lens. Conventional approaches to Galilee treat it as a static backdrop for a deliberate and dynamic historical drama. By reasserting geography as a creative process rather than a passive description, Vonder Bruegge also reasserts ancient Galilee as an interpreted space-a series of conceptualized \'maps\'-laden with meaning, significance, and purpose for each individual author.
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1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and indexes. :
9789004317345 :
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Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews : Collected Essays /
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In the collection entitled Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews Gabriella Gelardini gathers fifteen essays written in the last fifteen years, twelve of which are in English and three in German. Arranged in three parts (the world of , behind , and in front of Hebrews's text), her articles deal with such topics as structure and intertext, sin and faith, atonement and cult, as well as space and resistance. She reads Hebrews no longer as the enigmatic and homeless outsider within the New Testament corpus, as the "Melchizedekian being without genealogy"; rather, she reads Hebrews as one whose origin has finally been rediscovered, namely in Second Temple Judaism.
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Hebrews in contexts /
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Scholars of Hebrews have repeatedly echoed the almost proverbial saying that the book appears to its reader as a "Melchizedekian being without genealogy". For such scholars the aphorism identified prominent traits of Hebrews, its enigma, its otherness, its marginality. Although Franz Overbeck might unintentionally have stimulated such correlations, they do not represent what his dictum originally meant. Writing during the high noon of historicism in 1880, Overbeck lamented a lack of historical context, one that he had deduced on the basis of flawed presuppositions of the ideological frameworks prevalent of his time. His assertion made an impact, and consequently Hebrews was not only "othered" within New Testament scholarship, its context was neglected and by some, even judged as irrelevant altogether. Understandably, the neglect created a deficit keenly felt by more recent scholarship, which has developed a particular interest in Hebrews' contexts. Hebrews in Contexts , edited by Gabriella Gelardini and Harold W. Attridge, is an expression of this interest. It gathers authors who explore extensively on Hebrews' relations to other early traditions and texts (Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman) in order to map Hebrews' historical, cultural, and religious identity in greater, and perhaps surprising detail.
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9789004311695 :
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From Memphis to Babylon
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
1.1 Aims and questions
1.2 Previous research
1.3 Material and method
1.4 Theory
1.5 Historical background
2. The evidence: the individual level and the biographic perspective
2.1 Identified Africans
2.1.1 People with certain or likely African names
2.1.2 People identified as Africans via ethnonyms
2.1.3 People identified as Africans via family relations
2.2 Possible Africans
2.2.1 People with possibly African names 2.2.2 People with hybrid or adopted African names
2.3 Anonymous Africans
2.3.1 Anonymous Africans in Neo- and Late-Babylonian royal inscriptions and chronicles
2.3.2 Anonymous Africans in Neo- and Late-Babylonian documents
3. The evidence: the collective level and the demographic perspective
3.1 Demographics and the African group: identities and properties
3.1.1 The ethnic composition of the African group
3.1.2 The sex/gender composition of the African group
3.1.3 The age composition of the African group
3.1.4 The class composition of the African group 3.2 Demographics and the African group: settings and circumstances
3.2.1 The temporal distribution of the African group
3.2.2 The spatial distribution of the African group
3.2.3 The backgrounds to the presence of the African group
4. Conclusion
4.1 Africans in Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylonia: integration and assimilation
4.2 Adaptation and co-optation: Babylonian officials of African descent
5. Bibliography
6. Illustrations
7. Appendices and indices
7.1 Appendices
7.1.1 Identified Africans
7.1.2 Possible Africans
7.1.3 Anonymous Africans
7.2 Indices 7.2.1 Deities
7.2.2 People
7.2.3 Places
7.2.4 Texts
7.2.5 Egyptian words
Studies in the archaeology of the Iron age in Israel and Jordan /
: Based on a colloquium initiated and organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College, London, 16-17, April 1996. : 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 1841272035