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Judaic and Christian visions of the social order : describing, analyzing and comparing systems of the formative age / edited by Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton, Alan J. Avery-Peck.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in religion and the social order
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Biblical.
- Jewish sociology.
- Judaism and culture.
- Christian sociology.
- Christianity and culture.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. New Testament.
- Apocryphal books--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Apocryphal books.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
- Judaism.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Physical Description:
- x, 376 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2011]
- Summary:
- The seven essays in this book address formative Judaic writings in the time of the Mishnah and the Talmud, the first six centuries of the Common Era, and formative Christianity in the first six centuries of the Common Era. The essays explore the areas where Judaism and Christianity have intersected.
- Contents:
- Foreword: How does religion imagine society? / John T. Fitzgerald with William Scott Green
- From the repertoire of the Hebrew Bible: visions of the social order / Baruch A. Levine
- 1 Enoch's vague visions of a future social order: foils to its vivid portrayals of the present chaos / George W.E. Nickelsburg
- Visions of the social order: the Qumran library / James C. VanderKam
- Through Greek eyes: Jewish "theocracy" and "state of the wise" / Bezalel Bar-Kochva
- Philo's constructs of social order / Maren R. Niehoff
- Mishnah and concepts of the social order / Alan J. Avery-Peck
- Social vision of rabbinic Judaism ; Torah and culture: H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and culture after fifty years: a Judaic response / Jacob Neusner
- Six people you meet in the synagogue: visions of social order in early rabbinic prayer / Tzvee Zahavy
- Kingdom of God ; Paul's theory of the social order / Bruce D. Chilton
- Early Christian martyrdom, scripture, and social order / Frederick W. Weidmann
- Irenaeus of Lyons (130-200) re-imagining the cosmos from the perspective of the oppressed / J.A. McGuckin
- Origen's social vision of Christian life / Petra Heldt
- Eusebius's (and Constantine's) theory of the political order / Bruce D. Chilton
- Augustine of Hippo (354-430): architect of western Christianity's political theory / J.A. McGuckin
- Conclusions, observations, and limitations: reflections on the visions of the social order collaborative project / John T. Fitzgerald and William Scott Green.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780761856351
- 0761856358
- OCLC:
- 744302388
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