The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East
John G. Gammie, Leo G. Perdue
Eisenbrauns, 1990 - 545 pages
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Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period
Oded Lipschitz, Manfred Oeming
Eisenbrauns, 2006 - 721 pages
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Traditions of the Magi: Zoroastrianism in Greek and Latin literature
Albert de Jong
BRILL, 1997 - 496 pages
This
is the first full treatment of the Greek and Latin references to
Zoroastrianism since the pioneering works of Benveniste, Bidez &
Cumont, and Clemen. It focuses on the possibilities offered by the
classical reports on Zoroastrianism to reconstruct the history of that
faith.The book is divided into three sections. The first section deals
with introductory problems concerning ancient religious ethnography and
current views of the history of Zoroastrianism. The second section
consists of commentaries on five selected passages. The third section
offers a thematical overview of the materials and their relevance for
the history of Iranian religions.Apart from offering introductions to a
wide range of debates and topics in Classics and Iranian studies, the
book aims to illustrate the diversity of beliefs and practices in
ancient Zoroastrianism.
Diodorus Siculus The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens: Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE)
Diodorus (Siculus.), Peter Green
University of Texas Press, 2010-02-15 - 332 pages
Only
one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history
from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death
of Alexander the Great--the Bibliotheke, or "Library," produced by
Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 90-30 BCE). Yet generations of
scholars have disdained Diodorus as a spectacularly unintelligent
copyist who only reproduced, and often mangled, the works of earlier
historians. Arguing for a thorough critical reappraisal of Diodorus as a
minor but far from idiotic historian himself, Peter Green published
Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1, a fresh translation, with extensive
commentary, of the portion of Diodorus's history dealing with the period
480-431 BCE, the so-called "Golden Age" of Athens.This is the only recent modern English translation of the Bibliotheke in existence. In the present volume--the first of two covering Diodorus's text up to the death of Alexander--Green expands his translation of Diodorus up to Athens' defeat after the Peloponnesian War. In contrast to the full scholarly apparatus in his earlier volume (the translation of which is incorporated) the present volume's purpose is to give students, teachers, and general readers an accessible version of Diodorus's history. Its introduction and notes are especially designed for this audience and provide an up-to-date overview of fifth-century Greece during the years that saw the unparalleled flowering of drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts for which Greece still remains famous.
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Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium
Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, Peter John Rhodes
Oxford University Press, 2007-04-12 - 453 pages
Cultural
Responses to the Persian Wars addresses the huge impact on subsequent
culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the
early fifth century BC. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary
essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the
reception of this period of history, extending from the wars' immediate
impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in literature and
thought both in antiquity and in the post-Renaisssance world.
Extensively illustrated and accessibly written, with a detailed
Introduction and bibliographies, this book will interest historians,
classicists, and students of both comparative and modern literatures.
Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars
Jon D. Mikalson
Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003-09-15 - 269 pages
The
two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both
repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding
the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece on a large
scale. Using the Historiesof Herodotus as well as other historical and
archaeological sources, Jon Mikalson shows how the Greeks practiced
their religion at this pivotal moment in their history. In the period of
the invasions and the years immediately afterward, the
Greeks--internationally, state by state, and sometimes
individually--turned to their deities, using religious practices to
influence, understand, and commemorate events that were threatening
their very existence. Greeks prayed and sacrificed; made and fulfilled
vows to the gods; consulted oracles; interpreted omens and dreams;
created cults, sanctuaries, and festivals; and offered dozens of
dedications to their gods and heroes--all in relation to known
historical events. By portraying the human situations and historical
circumstances in which Greeks practiced their religion, Mikalson
advances our knowledge of the role of religion in fifth-century Greece
and reveals a religious dimension of the Persian Wars that has been
heretofore overlooked.Thursday, 22 March 2012
Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels, Volume 2 The Gospel of Matthew
Thomas R. Hatina
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008 - 256 pages
Advancements over the last 20 years in the study of genre and narrative criticism have left a void in the study of the function of embedded biblical texts in the Gospels. This collection of essays will move the study of scripture within scripture forwards.
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Matthew
Margaret Davies
Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd, 2009-03-31 - 254 pages
Margaret
Davies takes up the insights of reader-response criticism to explore
how the conventions and strategies of the Gospel of Matthew draw the
reader into the world that the text creates. There is a recognition also
of the text's significance as authoritative scripture for modern
Christians, and the bias that this gives to any interpretative strategy.
This is a reprint of the 1993 edition.
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The Theme of Jewish Persecution of Christians in the Gospel According to St Matthew
Douglas R. A. Hare
Cambridge University Press, 2005-10-06 - 220 pages
It
has long been recognized that in the Gospel according to St Matthew the
conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees has been intensified and it
has often been suggested that this intensification reflects the
continued struggle between the Church and the synagogue. The theme of
Jewish persecution of Christians in the Gospel according to St Matthew
is examined in this book with two questions in mind: 1. Has Matthew
exaggerated the severity of the persecution? 2. How has the persecution
influenced Matthew's theology? Professor Hare examines the historical
data relating to the suffering imposed upon the Christians and refers to
Rabbinic literature and Christian sources other than Matthew in order
to evaluate Matthew's portrayal of the persecutions. He concludes that
persecution was directed primarily against Christian missionaries, not
against rank-and-file Christians.
The New Isaac: Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew
Leroy Andrew Huizenga
BRILL, 2009-09-15 - 337 pages
This
work contends that when rightly read as a coherent narrative in its
first-century setting, the Gospel of Matthew evinces a significant Isaac
typology which coheres well with the Matthean themes of Jesus as new
temple and ultimate sacrifice.
The Gospel of Matthew and its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel
Howard W. Clarke
Indiana University Press, 2003-07-01 - 297 pages
The
Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers is a biblical commentary with a
difference. Howard Clarke first establishes contemporary scholarship's
mainstream view of Matthew's Gospel, and then presents a sampling of the
ways this text has been read, understood, and applied through two
millennia. By referring forward to Matthew's readers (rather than back
to the text's composers), the book exploits the tensions between what
contemporary scholars understand to be the intent of the author of
Matthew and the quite different, indeed often eccentric and bizarre ways
this text has been understood, assimilated, and applied over the years.
The commentary is a testament to the ambiguities and elasticity of the
text and a cogent reminder that interpretations are not fixed, nor texts
immutably relevant. And unlike other commentaries, this one gives space
to those who have questioned, rejected, or even ridiculed Matthew's
messages, since Bible-bashing, like Bible-thumping, is a historically
significant part of the experience of reading the Bible.
Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Gospel of Matthew
David C. Sim
Cambridge University Press, 2005-10-06 - 304 pages
This
study reconstructs the apocalyptic eschatology in Matthew's Gospel so
that we may understand his time and concerns. Sociological analysis of
apocalypticism in Judaism and early Christianity shows that such a
comprehensive world view, which emphasized the final judgement and its
aftermath within a dualistic and deterministic framework, was adopted by
minority of sectarian groups undergoing a situation of great crisis.
The Matthean community, after the first Jewish war against Rome, came
into conflict with Judaism, gentiles and the larger Christian movement.
Matthew's distinctive and often vengeful vision must be set against both
his acute need to enhance his community's sense of itself and his
pastoral concern. Dr Sim offers for the first time in English an
extended and comprehensive comparison of Matthew's outlook with
contemporary eschatological literature.
Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany: The View from Cologne
Henry Mayr-Harting
Oxford University Press, 2007 - 308 pages
Integrating
the brilliant biography of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (953-65) and
brother of Emperor Otto I, by the otherwise obscure monk Ruotger, with
the intellectual culture of Cologne Cathedral, this is a study of actual
politics in conjunction with Ottonian ruler ethic. Our knowledge of
Cologne intellectual activity in the period, apart from Ruotger, must be
pieced together mainly from marginal annotations and glosses in
surviving Cologne manuscripts, showing how and with what concerns some
of the most important books of the Latin West were read in Bruno's and
Ruotger's Cologne. These include Pope Gregory the Great's Letters,
Prudentius's Psychomachia, Boethius's Arithmetic, and Martianus
Capella's Marriage of Philology and Mercury. The writing in the margins
of the manuscripts, besides enlarging our picture of thinking in Cologne
in itself, can be drawn into comparison with the outlook of Ruotger.Exploring how distinctive Cologne was, compared with other centres, Henry Mayr-Harting brings out an unexpectedly strong thread of Platonism in the tenth-century intellect. The book includes a critical edition of probably the earliest surviving, and hitherto unpublished, set of glosses to Boethius's Arithmetic, with an extensive study of their content.
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A Synopsis of the Apocryphal Nativity and Infancy Narratives
J. K. Elliott
Brill, 2006 - 170 pages
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Paul and the Crucified Christ in Antioch: Maccabean Martyrdom and Galatians 1 And 2
The
so-called 'Antioch Incident' - the confrontation between the apostles
Peter and Paul in Galatians 2.11-21 - continues to be a source of
controversy in both scholarly and popular estimations of the emergence
of the early Church and the development of Pauline theology. Paul and
the Crucified Christ in Antioch offers an interesting interpretation of
Paul's account of and response to this event, creatively combining
historical reconstruction, detailed exegesis, and theological
reflection. S. A. Cummins argues that the nature and significance of the
central issue at stake in Antioch - whether the Torah or Jesus Christ
determines who are the people of God - gains great clarity and force
when viewed in relation to a Maccabean martyr model of Judaism as now
christologically reconfigured and redeployed in the life and ministry of
the apostle Paul.
The Historical Jesus in Context
Amy-Jill Levine, Jr. Dale C. Allison, John Dominic Crossan
Princeton University Press, 2008-09-02 - 424 pages
The
Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the
gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological
context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer
new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed
new light on the Jesus of history, including pagan prayers and private
inscriptions, miracle tales and martyrdoms, parables and fables, divorce
decrees and imperial propaganda. The translated materials--from
Christian, Coptic, and Jewish as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian
texts--extend beyond single phrases to encompass the full context, thus
allowing readers to locate Jesus in a broader cultural setting than is
usually made available. This book demonstrates that only by knowing the
world in which Jesus lived and taught can we fully understand him, his
message, and the spread of the Gospel. Gathering in one place material
that was previously available only in disparate sources, this formidable
book provides innovative insight into matters no less grand than
first-century Jewish and Gentile life, the composition of the Gospels,
and Jesus himself.
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