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Politics, Conflict, and Movements in First-Century Palestine

By: Richard A. Horsley

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Politics, Conflict, and Movements in First-Century Palestine

By: Richard A. Horsley

This volume brings together groundbreaking essays that laid the foundations of several of Horsley's later works. The initial aims of these essays were, first, to ferret out evidence from our sources, primarily from the histories of Josephus, evidence for the lives of ordinary people living in Judean and Galilean villages. A second purpose was to explore as precisely as possible the fundamental conflictual division between the Roman, Herodian, and high priestly rulers in Palestine and the Judean and Galilean villagers they ruled. A third purpose was to explore more particularly how the popular and scribal opposition to the rulers was manifested in a remarkable diversity of movements and their leaders. And the fourth purpose, entailed in the first two, was to wriggle out from under some of the controlling constructs of New Testament/biblical studies that had been hiding the considerable complexity of the historical context. This was necessary even to begin to discern more precisely the fundamental political--economic--religious conflict between the rulers and the villagers manifested in a diversity of social movements attested in the sources.

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1666722545

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Hearing the Whole Story

The Politics of Plot in Mark's Gospel

By: Richard A. Horsley

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Hearing the Whole Story

The Politics of Plot in Mark's Gospel

By: Richard A. Horsley

Richard Horsley provides a sure guide for first time readers of Mark's Gospel and, at the very same time, induces those more familiar with Mark to take a fresh look at this Gospel. From tracing the plot and sub-plot in Mark to exploring how the Gospel was first heard (as oral performance), Horsely tackles old questions from new angles. Horsely consistently and judiciously uses sociological categories and method to help readers see how Mark's Jesus challenged the dominant order of his day.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664222757

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Idolatry and Authority

By: Richard Liong Seng Phua

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Idolatry and Authority

By: Richard Liong Seng Phua

1 Cor 8.1-11.1 is concerned with the subject of idolatry in first-century Christianity and ancient Judaism. Jews and Christians differ over what constitutes idolatry and even within ancient Judaism and early Christianity there was no consensus. In this book, a set of definitions are created which are applied to the examination of the various relevant Diaspora Jewish literature, inscriptions and papyri, and finally the NT passage. This examination reveals different attitudes adopted by different Jews towards idolatry, which serve as parallels to the three positions in 1 Cor 8.1-11.1, 'the strong', 'the weak', and Paul. The resolution of the issue of idolatry lies in the question of who determines what is idolatrous and what constitutes proper Christian behaviour. This is accomplished through a comparison and contrast between leadership structures within Diaspora Jewish assemblies and the Corinthian church. Almost all the definitions of idolatry set up are operative in Paul, whose way of resolving the issue of idolatry is by appeal to biblical history. By insisting on his authority as the founding apostle and father of the Corinthian church, Paul can issue the injunction to the 'strong' to flee from idolatry because idolatrous behaviour would incur the wrath of God and lead to God's punishment, which is the loss of one's eschatological salvation. For the Diaspora Jews, the 'final court of appeal' was the law; but for the Corinthian church, the authority Paul sets up is Christ, the gospel, salvation, and Paul himself as the founding apostle.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567289109

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9780567289100

Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea

By: Richard A. Horsley

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Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea

By: Richard A. Horsley

Judaism and Christianity both arose in times of empire, with roots in Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. In order to understand these religious movements, we must first understand the history and society of these imperial cultures. In these formative years, wisdom and apocalyptic traditions flourished as two significant religious forms. In Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea, distinguished New Testament scholar Richard A. Horsley analyzes the function and meaning of these religious movements within their social context, providing essential background for the development of early Judaism and early Christianity. It is an ideal textbook for classes on the rise of Judaism or the Second Temple period, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls and Apocrypha.

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Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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0664229913

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9780664229917

John, Jesus, and the Renewal of Israel

By: Richard Horsley,Tom Thatcher

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John, Jesus, and the Renewal of Israel

By: Richard Horsley,Tom Thatcher

In this book Richard Horsley and Tom Thatcher trace the Gospel of John's portrayal of Jesus as a prophet of renewal by reading the text against a double backdrop -- the social history of Roman Palestine and the media world of John. This innovative study is the first to consider the Gospel of John as story in the ancient media context of oral communication and oral performance. Horsley and Thatcher creatively combine concerns from the fields of Jesus studies and ancient media studies in their analysis. Taking the main conflict evident in John's story of Jesus as the key to its plot, they discern how this Gospel -- usually read as "spiritual" -- portrays Jesus engaged in a concrete program of renewal and resistance.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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080286872X

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God's Apocalyptic Insurrection

A Post-Evangelical Theology of Salvation

By: Richard D. Crane

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God's Apocalyptic Insurrection

A Post-Evangelical Theology of Salvation

By: Richard D. Crane

What if our inherited theologies of salvation are distorted by a sinful history that includes white supremacy, slavery, and colonial conquest? What if we perpetuate this distortion by continuing to imagine salvation as a legal transaction by which we are saved by God from divine punishment? If salvation merely rectifies the individual’s standing before God, justice and human flourishing are viewed as peripheral to “the gospel.” This book begins with a bit of “deconstruction.” But the real need is construction or perhaps the discovery of another “soteriological imagination.” To be saved is to be drawn into union with Jesus Messiah, the bringer of the now and future reign of God where all things are rectified. Jesus’s life, death, and resurrected body are the space where a disordered creation is put right. Jesus is God’s “apocalyptic insurrection” against every power that dehumanizes, harms, and destroys human persons. We are saved by the triune God, by God’s gracious acceptance that cannot be earned. But we are saved for participation in the invasion of God’s reign of justice, healing, and transformation. Salvation has everything to do with caring for refugees, resisting systemic racial and other injustices, food for the hungry, and valuing human persons as Christ incognito.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666712248

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Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace

By: John S. Kloppenborg,Richard S. Ascough

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Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace

By: John S. Kloppenborg,Richard S. Ascough

Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and a context in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This volume collects a representative selection of inscriptions from associations in Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, published with English translations, brief explanatory notes, commentaries and full indices. This volume is essential for several areas of study: ancient patterns of social organization; the organization of diasporic communities in the ancient Mediterranean; models for the structure of early Christian groups; and forms of sociability, status-displays, and the vocabularies of virtue.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110253461

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Laser Spectroscopy and its Applications

By: Richard W. Solarz,Jeffrey A. Paisner

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Laser Spectroscopy and its Applications

By: Richard W. Solarz,Jeffrey A. Paisner

Bringing together scattered literature from a range of sources, Laser Spectroscopy and ItsApplications clearly elucidates the tools and concepts of this dynamic area, and providesextensive bibliographies for further study.Distinguished experts in their respective fields discuss resonance photoionization, laser absorption,laser-induced breakdown, photodissociation, Raman scattering, remote sensing,and laser-induced fluorescence. The book also incorporates an overview of the semiclassicaltheory of atomic and molecular spectra.Combining background at an intermediate level with an in-depth discussion of specifictechniques, Laser Spectroscopy and Its Applications is essential reading for laser and opticalscientists and engineers; analytical chemists; health physicists; researchers in optical,chemical, pharmaceutical, and metallurgical industries. It will also prove useful for upperlevelundergraduate and graduate students of laser spectroscopy and its applications, andin-house seminars and short courses offered by firms and professional societies.

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Routledge

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1351435620

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The Parables of Jesus and the Problems of the World

How Ancient Narratives Comprehend Modern Malaise

By: Richard Q. Ford

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The Parables of Jesus and the Problems of the World

How Ancient Narratives Comprehend Modern Malaise

By: Richard Q. Ford

Remarkable is how extensively in each parable Jesus provides a subtle but rich array of unexpected possibilities hidden within the hierarchies of power so commonplace in his world. By doing so he profoundly addresses the perils inherent in the prerogatives of many of us living in today's world. In these ancient interpersonal tragedies, readers can discover modern global analogues--where the powerful still control the powerless and where others of us, immersed as we are in privilege, are still willing to side with control.

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1498232981

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European Media in the Digital Age

Analysis and Approaches

By: Richard Rooke

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European Media in the Digital Age

Analysis and Approaches

By: Richard Rooke

This introductory textbook for Media and Communication Studies students is designed to encourage observation and evaluation of the European media in the digital age, enabling students to grasp key concepts and gain a broad and clear overview of the area. It also introduces the principal debates, developments (legislative, commercial, political and technological) and issues shaping the European media today, and examines in depth the mass media, digital media, the internet and new media policy. Understanding todays media scene from print to audiovisual needs a wider view and this book helps make comprehensible the European media within a broader global media landscape. The text is pedagogically rich and explores a variety of approaches to help the reader gain a better understanding of the European media world. Students are encouraged to start thinking about statistics, relating this to economics, analysing regulations, and combining media theories with theories of European Union integration. The book also includes the use of case studies, illustrations, summaries, critical reflections and directions to wider reading. The European Media in the Digital Age is recommended for all Media Studies students and is also of key interest to students of Politics and Policy, Business Studies, International Studies and European Studies

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1317866061

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Ricardi de Cirencestria Speculum Historiale de Gestis Regum Angliae

By: Richard of Cirencester,John E. B. Mayor

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Ricardi de Cirencestria Speculum Historiale de Gestis Regum Angliae

By: Richard of Cirencester,John E. B. Mayor

Volume 2 of this two-volume Latin history of England, published 1863-9, covers the years 872-1066.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108046991

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Jesus the Egyptian

The Origins of Christianity and the Psychology of Christ

By: Richard Gabriel

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Jesus the Egyptian

The Origins of Christianity and the Psychology of Christ

By: Richard Gabriel

Jesus The Egyptian is a revolutionary attempt to examine the origins of Christianity as historical artifacts and not theological ones. The author offers the theory that Christianity is historically rooted in the ancient Egyptian creed of Osiris and not only, as is often claimed, in Judaism, presenting a radical break with established Christian tradition. Professor Gabriel offers an intriguing analysis of Jesus' psychological motivation to explain Jesus' rejection of Judaism and his adoption of the Osiran-Isis creed, the most popular and practiced pagan theology of Christ's time.

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0595350879

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9780595350872

Seek the Peace of the City

Christian Political Criticism as Public, Realist, and Transformative

By: Richard Bourne

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Seek the Peace of the City

Christian Political Criticism as Public, Realist, and Transformative

By: Richard Bourne

Seek the Peace of the City provides a robust engagement with the theological foundations and practices of Christian social and political criticism. Richard Bourne identifies a theological realism found in the work of John Howard Yoder. This realism bases social and political criticism in the purposes of a nonviolent, patient, and reconciling God. Bourne develops this account and shows how it is consonant with aspects of the work of a range of contemporary theologians including Stanley Hauerwas, John Milbank, Karl Barth, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In developing this theological realism, the book furnishes an account of Christian criticism capable of addressing key debates in contemporary theology and political theory. Bourne begins by arguing for the public status of theological political claims. He demonstrates that only a vigorous theological realism, grounded in the universal lordship of Christ, is capable of providing a foundation for local, particular, and ad hoc practices of critique. The book concludes by developing an account of the impact such a theological realism and practice of critique might have on contemporary political theory--with explorations of the doxological nature of social change, the changing shape of the state, governmentality and political sovereignty, and the status and role of religious communities in civil society.

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1621890414

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The Pauline Church and the Corinthian Ekklēsia

Greco-Roman Associations in Comparative Context

By: Richard Last

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The Pauline Church and the Corinthian Ekklēsia

Greco-Roman Associations in Comparative Context

By: Richard Last

This innovative volume is the first English-language monograph to compare Paul's Corinthian church with contemporary cult groups from Mediterranean antiquity.

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1107100631

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Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations

Organizational Models and Social Practices

By: Richard S. Ascough

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Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations

Organizational Models and Social Practices

By: Richard S. Ascough

Over the past two and a half decades there has been an increasing interest in how the data from the associations--known primarily from inscriptions and papyri--can help scholars better understand the development of Christ groups in the first and second centuries. Richard Ascough's work has been at the forefront of promoting the associations and applying insights from inscriptions and papyri to understanding early Christian texts. This book collects together his most important contributions to the scholarly trajectory as it developed over a two-decade period. A fresh introduction orients the sixteen previously published articles and essays, which are arranged into three sections; the first dealing with associations as a model for Christ groups, the second focused on how associations and Christ groups interacted over recruitment, and the third on two key elements of group life: meals and memorializing the dead.

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1666709034

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The Making of the Self

Ancient and Modern Asceticism

By: Richard Valantasis

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The Making of the Self

Ancient and Modern Asceticism

By: Richard Valantasis

A leading scholar of ascetical studies, Richard Valantasis explores a variety of ascetical traditions ranging from the Greco-Roman philosophy of Musonius Rufus, the asceticism found in the Nag Hammadi Library and in certain Gnostic texts, the Gospel of Thomas, and other early Christian texts. This collection gathers historical and theoretical essays that develop a theory of asceticism that informs the analysis of historical texts and opens the way for postmodern ascetical studies. Wide-ranging in historical scope and in developing theory, these essays address asceticism for scholar and student alike. The theory will be of particular interest to those interested in cultural theory and analysis, while the historical essays provide the researcher with easy access to a significant corpus of academic writing on asceticism.

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1498270379

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Politics, Conflict, and Movements in First-Century Palestine

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Idolatry and Authority

Idolatry and Authority

Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea

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John, Jesus, and the Renewal of Israel

John, Jesus, and the Renewal of Israel

God's Apocalyptic Insurrection

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Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace

Laser Spectroscopy and its Applications

Laser Spectroscopy and its Applications

The Parables of Jesus and the Problems of the World

The Parables of Jesus and the Problems of the World

European Media in the Digital Age

European Media in the Digital Age

Ricardi de Cirencestria Speculum Historiale de Gestis Regum Angliae

Ricardi de Cirencestria Speculum Historiale de Gestis Regum Angliae

Jesus the Egyptian

Jesus the Egyptian

Seek the Peace of the City

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The Pauline Church and the Corinthian Ekklēsia

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Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations

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The Making of the Self

The Making of the Self

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