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Early Christian encounters with town and countryside : essays on the urban and rural worlds of early Christianity / Markus Tiwald, Jürgen K. Zangenberg (eds.).
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Novum Testamentum et orbis antiquus, Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments ; Bd. 126.
- Novum Testamentum et orbis antiquus, Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments, 1420-4592 ; volume 126
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Rome--Religion.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Religion.
- Cities and towns--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Cities and towns.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2021]
- Summary:
- Against the background of ongoing research on the diversity of social environments during the Early Roman Empire, this volume focuses on various early Christian 'worlds' as they appear in canonical and non-canonical writings. How did Early Christians experience 'rural' and 'urban' life? How did they react to them? Starting with methodological reflections on urbanity and early Christian beginnings, special attention is devoted to the Jesus-tradition. In what sense did the perception of Jesus, the 'Galilean village Jew', change when his message was carried into the cities of the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Athens or Rome? Subsequent articles deal with various personalities or literary works whose attitudes towards urban life shaped nascent Christianity. In 18 interdisciplinary articles the book explores the great diversity of local Christian milieus in their Mediterranean contexts and demonstrates the wide range of Christian cultural perspectives. -- Back Cover.
- Contents:
- "Early Christian encounters with town and countryside" : an introduction to "Essays on urban and rural structures of early Christianity" / Markus Tiwald & Jürgen K. Zangenberg
- "Urban" and "rural" in early Christianity : opposition or complement? / Frits Gerard Naerebout
- Interrelations between urbanity and rurality / Reinhard von Bendemann
- Das frühe Christentum und die Stadt : Methodisch-hermeneutische Grundsatzfragen und exemplarische Analysen / Martin Ebner
- How Romanized was Galilee in the time of Jesus? / Jodi Magness
- Walking along the lakeshore (Mt 4:18) : observations on Jesus the Jew traveling through a changing Galilee / Jürgen K. Zangenberg
- The rural roots of the Jesus Movement and the "Galilean Silence" / Markus Tiwald
- The transition from countryside to city : a transformation of Christianity in its beginnings? / Gerd Theissen
- Pauline Christianity as an urban phenomenon / Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
- Early Christians in the Lycus Valley / Lukas Bormann
- Urbanity in the Gospel of John? / Jörg Frey
- Anti-urban sentiments in early Christianity? : Revelation and the Ascension of Isaiah / Tobias Nicklas in collaboration with Luigi Walt
- Pliny and the expansion of Christianity in cities and rural areas of Pontus et Bithynia / Markus Öhler
- "All turned on us like beasts" : legal negotiation and the persecution of Lyon and Vienne / Karen P.S. Janssen
- "Bigger than a little one" : rural Christianity in Asia Minor, second century CE / Heidrun E. Mader
- Gods in the neighborhood : proximate religion in the Roman Empire / Daniel Schowalter
- The urban world of rabbis in post-Bar Kochba Palestine / Günter Stemberger
- Urban and rural synagogues in Late Antique Palestine : is there that much of a difference between them? / Ze'ev Weiss.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783525564943
- 3525564945
- OCLC:
- 1246477964
- Publisher Number:
- 9783525564943
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