Chapter · May 12, 2021
Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception brings together the latest research on how the fields of textual criticism, manuscript studies, and reception history can and should inform one another. ...
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Chapter · January 31, 2020
Jennifer Knust surveys the gradual canonisation of the Maccabean martyrs
within a collection of Christian sacred texts. The eventual adoption of
these martyrs as proto-Christian models of faith were clearly the result
of a complex bu ...
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Journal ArticleMarriage, Family, and Spirituality · 2020
As Elizabeth Clark has shown, early Christian theories of marriage spun around an ‘axiology of ‘difference’’ that employed sexual renunciation as its central axis. In the gap between an idealized marriage of the soul and Christ and the actual marriages of ...
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Chapter · December 2019
This volume, originating from a conference on "Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity" hosted by Orebro School of Theology (Sweden) in 2018, deals with the ideological and theological meaning of healing and ... ...
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Chapter · October 14, 2019
As an institution, marriage legislates and enforces the dissemination and protection of property, sorting between the categories “legitimate” and “illegitimate.” Instructions regarding marriage, adultery, and divorce in various New Testament books confirm ...
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Chapter · 2019
Bringing together nationally and internationally known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the newly opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and wrestles with the thorny interpretive issues and ... ...
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Book · November 13, 2018
The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. ...
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Chapter · April 13, 2018
A collection of essays by scholars in the field of biblical studies. Explores the prophetic voices of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament Apocrypha, and the Greek New Testament. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Biblical Literature · January 1, 2018
In Classical and Hellenistic Greek, apart from use by Jewish and Christian authors, {greek word presented} meant "prostitution." Different words from the same word group (built on {greek word presented}-) all had something to do with prostitution. {greek w ...
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Book · November 14, 2017
An international, cross-disciplinary investigation of ancient religious practices and their material remains yields fresh insights and poses new questions.
Ritual Matters interrupts the anachronistic binaries of religious practice and belief, the material ...
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Book · November 14, 2017
An international, cross-disciplinary investigation of ancient religious practices and their material remains yields fresh insights and poses new questions.
Ritual Matters interrupts the anachronistic binaries of religious practice and belief, the material ...
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Chapter · November 14, 2017
An international, cross-disciplinary investigation of ancient religious practices and their material remains yields fresh insights and poses new questions.
Ritual Matters interrupts the anachronistic binaries of religious practice and belief, the materia ...
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Chapter · November 14, 2017
An international, cross-disciplinary investigation of ancient religious practices and their material remains yields fresh insights and poses new questions.
Ritual Matters interrupts the anachronistic binaries of religious practice and belief, the materia ...
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Chapter · April 21, 2016
The contributors to this volume (J.D. Punch, Jennifer Knust, Tommy Wasserman, Chris Keith, Maurice Robinson, and Larry Hurtado) re-examine the Pericope Adulterae (John 7.53-8.11) asking afresh the question of the paragraph's authenticity. Each contributor ...
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Book · November 19, 2015
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions is the first comprehensive single-volume reference work offering authoritative coverage of ancient religions in the Mediterranean world. Chronologically, the volume’s scope extends from pre-hist ...
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Book · November 19, 2015
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions is the first comprehensive single-volume reference work offering authoritative coverage of ancient religions in the Mediterranean world. Chronologically, the volume’s scope extends from pre-hist ...
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Journal ArticleBiblical Interpretation · August 23, 2014
The story of Noah’s curse of his grandson Canaan (Gen. 9:18–29) is especially well suited to an interpretive style Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has labeled “paranoid reading.” Oft exploited by those invested in xenophobia and racism, this passage appears to prese ...
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Book · January 19, 2012
Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice reappraises the diverse religious texts and practices of the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, investigating the meanings and functions of sacrifice in the ancient world. Gathering together essays that address sacrificial ...
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Book · January 19, 2012
Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice reappraises the diverse religious texts and practices of the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, investigating the meanings and functions of sacrifice in the ancient world. Gathering together essays that address sacrificial ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2011
“In a Christian life,” German theologian Siegfried Leffler stated in 1939, “the heart always has to be disposed toward the Jew, and that’s how it has to be.” Yet, he goes on to argue, as a Christian one must also follow the laws of the state and, as such b ...
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Journal ArticleHarvard Theological Review · October 2010
The story of the woman taken in adultery (John 7:53–8:11) has a long, complex history. Well-known in the Latin West, the story was neglected but not forgotten in the East. Incorporated within Late Antique and Early Medieval Gospel manuscripts, depicted in ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Early Christian Studies · January 1, 2006
Texts, even sacred texts, are never fixed. Meaning is never stable and interpretations shift in concert with the changing concerns of those who present them. These principles are readily demonstrated by a consideration of the complex history of the pericop ...
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Book · November 2005
Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually ...
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