Knowledge and the coming kingdom : the Didache's meal ritual and its place in early Christianity / by Jonathan Schwiebert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwiebert, Jonathan.

Series:

Library of New Testament studies ; 373.

Library of New Testament studies ; 373

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacred meals.

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

Church history.

Didache.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : T & T Clark, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom is a study of the meal prayers of Didache 9-10. The opening chapters pursue a sustained argument regarding the relationship between the Didache's meal ritual and the well-known tradition of Jesus' final meal. The central goal of this argument is to clarify that the silence of the Didache's prayers regarding Jesus' sacrificial death is neither trivial nor the result of textual accident, but is instead tied up with how this ritual works as a ritual. Schwiebert aims to counter a weighty tradition of reading the Didache's testimony in light of the New Testament acc

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical Abbreviations; Abbreviations of Ancient Sources; Preface; 1. RITUAL AND HISTORY OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC TRADITION; Accounting for the Didache; Ritual and History: A Marriage Proposal; PART I: DIDACHE 9-10 AS RITUAL; 2. THE LAST SUPPER TRADITION; 3. THE LOGIC OF THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL; 4. THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL AND THE LAST SUPPER TRADITION; PART II: THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL IN HISTORY; 5. THE ORIGINAL MILIEU OF DIDACHE 9-10; 6. RITUAL DYNAMICS IN THE DIDACHE'S TRADITIONS

7. THE DIDACHE'S MEAL RITUAL AND EARLY PRAYER TRADITIONS IN ROME AND ASIA MINOR8. THE INFLUENCE OF THE DIDACHE'S RITUAL LOGIC IN EGYPT; 9. THE END OF A TRAJECTORY; WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.

ISBN:

9786612867965

9781282867963

1282867962

9780567130891

0567130894

OCLC:

676700264