'The Teaching of These Words': Intertextuality, Social Identity, and Early Christianity : Essays in Honor of Clayton N. Jefford (Bible in Ancient Christianity)

Draper, Jonathan A. (EDT)/ Wilhite, Shawn (EDT)/ Pardee, Nancy (EDT)

Brill（2024/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 387 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004690080
• DDC分類 261.1

Full Description

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, their reception and adaptation, affected how early Christian communities perceived themselves. Conversely, how they perceived themselves affected which texts they were drawn to and how they read and received them. The contributors to this volume examine how early Christian authors used Scripture and related texts and, in turn, how those texts shaped the identity of their communities.

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