Experientia, volume 2 : linking text and experience / edited by Colleen Shantz and Rodney A. Werline.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shantz, Colleen.

Werline, Rodney Alan, 1961-

Series:

Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 35.

Early Judaism and its literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible.

Experience (Religion)--History--Congresses.

Experience (Religion).

Reading--Religious aspects--History--Congresses.

Reading.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.

Church history.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D--Congresses.

Judaism.

History.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 285 ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, [2012]

Summary:

From meetings of the Society's Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Section, 11 essays reflect efforts to revise and reinvigorate the understanding of religious experience. The notion underlying this and the first volume is that the texts that are the sources of scholarship in early Judaism and early Christianity are often motivated by some religious experience of the author or the community. The topics include the experience of God's paideia in the Psalms of Solomon, religious experience and social dynamics in the Corinthian Church, ideology and experience in the Greek life of Adam and Eve, Romans as a therapeutic letter, and two case studies of religious experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Society of Biblical Literature publishes the paperbound edition; Brill publishes the hardbound. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Opening the black box : new prospects for analyzing religious experience / Frances Flannery

The experience of God's paideia in the Psalms of Solomon / Rodney A. Werline

Esoteric mystical practice in fourth Ezra and the reconfiguration of social memory / Frances Flannery

Filled with new wine? Religious experience and social dynamics in the Corinthian Church / István Czachesz

Ideology and experience in the Greek life of Adam and Eve / John R. Levison

Violence as religious experience in the Gospel of Mark / Leif E. Vaage

"Keep up your transformation within the renewal of your mind": Romans as a therapeutic letter / Robin Griffith-Jones / "In Christ" and "Christ in" as expressions of religious experience : testing the waters in Galatians / Rollin A. Ramsaran

Paul, baptism, and religious experience / Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte

Religious experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls : two case studies / Carol A. Newsom

Religious experience through the lens of critical spatiality :a look at embodiment language in prayers and hymns / Angela Kim Harkins.

Notes:

"This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity begun in Experientia, Volume 1, by addressing one of the traditional objections to the study of experience in antiquity. The authors address the relationship between the surviving evidence, which is textual, and the religious experiences that precede or ensue from those texts. Drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology, social memory theory, neuroscience, and cognitive science, they explore a range of religious phenomena including worship, the act of public reading, ritual, ecstasy, mystical ascent, and the transformation of gender and of emotions. Through careful and theoretically informed work, the authors demonstrate the possibility of moving from written documents to assess the lived experiences that are linked to them"--Publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781589836693

1589836693

OCLC:

809637239