[PDF] Class Struggle In The New Testament eBook

Author : Robert J. Myles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1978702086

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Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data, and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Chapters address collective struggles in the Gospels; the Roman military and class; the usefulness of categories like peasant, retainer, and middling groups for understanding the world of Jesus; the class basis behind the origin of archangels; the Gospels as products of elite culture; the implication of capitalist ideology upon biblical interpretation; and the New Testament’s use of slavery metaphors, populist features, and gifting practices. This book will become a definitive reference point for future discussion.

Author : G. Anthony Keddie
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0884145468

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An interdisciplinary discussion engaging classics, archaeology, religious studies, and the social sciences The Struggle over Class brings together scholars from the fields of New Testament and early Christianity to examine Christian texts in light of the category of class. Historically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, this collection presents a range of approaches to, and applications of, class in the study of the epistles, the gospels, Acts, apocalyptic texts, and patristic literature. Contributors Alicia J. Batten, Alan H. Cadwallader, Cavan W. Concannon, Zeba Crook, James Crossley, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Philip F. Esler, Michael Flexsenhar III, Steven J. Friesen, Caroline Johnson Hodge, G. Anthony Keddie, Jaclyn Maxwell, Christina Petterson, Jennifer Quigley, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Daniëlle Slootjes, and Emma Wasserman challenge both scholars and students to articulate their own positions in the ongoing scholarly struggle over class as an analytical category.

Author : Andy Stanley
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310536995

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A fresh look at the earliest Christian movement reveals what made the new faith so compelling...and what we need to change today to make it so again. Once upon a time there was a version of the Christian faith that was practically irresistible. After all, what could be more so than the gospel that Jesus ushered in? Why, then, isn't it the same with Christianity today? Author and pastor Andy Stanley is deeply concerned with the present-day church and its future. He believes that many of the solutions to our issues can be found by investigating our roots. In Irresistible, Andy chronicles what made the early Jesus Movement so compelling, resilient, and irresistible by answering these questions: What did first-century Christians know that we don't—about God's Word, about their lives, about love? What did they do that we're not doing? What makes Christianity so resistible in today's culture? What needs to change in order to repeat the growth our faith had at its beginning? Many people who leave or disparage the faith cite reasons that have less to do with Jesus than with the conduct of his followers. It's time to hit pause and consider the faith modeled by our first-century brothers and sisters who had no official Bible, no status, and little chance of survival. It's time to embrace the version of faith that initiated—against all human odds—a chain of events resulting in the most significant and extensive cultural transformation the world has ever seen. This is a version of Christianity we must remember and re-embrace if we want to be salt and light in an increasingly savorless and dark world.

Author : Christina Petterson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004432205

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In Apostles of Revolution? Marxism and Biblical Studies, Christina Petterson introduces central topics of Marxist historical analysis, and connects it with the broad history of Marxism as a political movement. Through this lens, she examines biblical scholarship and its engagement with Marxist categories of analysis.

Author : João Calazans Filho
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1667475541

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The book "Chronicles” of the Bahian author João Calazans Filho reveals a series of reflections on the daily life of contemporary social relations, with a special focus on the political and literary issues of the country, so that the Brazilian has a guide to think and act to improve their condition as a citizen. Through his chronicles, Calazans explores relevant themes, diving into the complex actions of society, unveiling its nuances and ideological trends that outline the paths that the people want to follow, with literature as the main locomotive to lead Brazilians to a level of citizen excellence. Finally, the text in the form of chronicles, offers the power of reflection in the historical text, expressing that challenge is one of the ways to achieve hope in search of a better world.

Author : Mark D. Given
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0884145573

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"As long as there are readers of Paul, there will be always be other perspectives." The essays in this second edition of Paul Unbound: Other Perspectives on the Apostle provide introductions to Paul's relationship to and views on the Roman Empire, first-century economic stratification, his opponents, ethnicity, the law, Judaism, women, and Greco-Roman rhetoric. Contributors Warren Carter, Charles H. Cosgrove, A. Andrew Das, Steven J. Friesen, Mark D. Given, Deborah Krause, Mark D. Nanos, and Jerry L. Sumney have added addendums to their original essays and updated the bibliography to take into account scholarship produced in the decade since the publication of the first edition. The collection provides essential background and sets out new directions for study useful to students of the New Testament and Paul's letters.

Author : Hartin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004379851

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Text and Interpretation gives an insight into the many different approaches that more recent South African scholarship has adopted in the interpretation of the New Testament. While the number of approaches in New Testament interpretation has proliferated over the past few years, all the proposals still fall under one of the three traditional poles: sender (author) - text - receptor (reader). Classified according to this division each chapter has a twofold aim. Firstly, the perspective is situated within a wider framework of interpretation to illustrate the context out of which this approach emerges. Secondly, each article has selected a particular New Testament text to demonstrate this approach in practice. The authors of these chapters - the majority of which are South African scholars - were chosen because of their expertise in their specific fields. By presenting these studies together in one collection, the scholarship in these different areas will become more readily accessible to a wider group of scholars.

Author : Beth M. Sheppard
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2012-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589836669

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Do professional historians and New Testament scholars use the same methods to explore the past? This interdisciplinary textbook introduces students of the New Testament to the vocabulary and methods employed by historians. It discusses various approaches to historiography and demonstrates their applicability for interpreting the New Testament text and exploring its background. Overviews of the philosophy of history, common historical fallacies, and the basics of historiography are followed by three exegetical studies that illustrate the applicability of various historical methods for New Testament interpretation.