Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians, The (The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567702723 ISBN 13: 9780567702722

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2023

Synopsis

The contributors to this volume take as their theme the reception of Jewish traditions in early Christianity, and the ways in which the meaning of these traditions changed as they were put to work in new contexts and for new social ends. Special emphasis is placed on the internal variety and malleability of these traditions, which underwent continual processes of change within Judaism, and on reception as an active, strategic, and interested process. All the essays in this volume seek to bring out how acts of reception contribute to the social formation of early Christianity, in its social imagination (its speech and thought about itself) or in its social practices, or both. This volume challenges static notions of tradition and passive ideas of ‘reception’, stressing creativity and the significance of ‘strong’ readings of tradition. It thus complicates standard narratives of ‘the parting of the ways’ between ‘Christianity’ and ‘Judaism’, showing how even claims to continuity were bound to make the same different.

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About the Authors

John M.G. Barclay is Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham, UK.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

Kylie Crabbe is Senior Research Fellow in biblical and early Christian studies at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Australia.

Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins and Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the social and political history of Judaea under Roman rule, the historical Jesus, and the canonical gospels. She is the author of Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation (1998), Caiaphas: High Priest and Friend of Rome? (2004), The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed (2012), Jesus: A Very Brief History (2017), The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel (2020), and a number of shorter studies and articles.

Jens Schroeter is Chair and Professor of Exegesis and Theology of the New Testament and New Testament Apocrpyha at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567702723
• ISBN 13: 9780567702722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Barclay John M.G., Crabbe Kylie