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Envisioning God in the humanities : essays on Christianity, Judaism, and ancient religion in honor of Melissa Harl Sellew / edited by Courtney J. P. Friesen ; foreword by Calvin J. Roetzel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Westar seminar on God and the human future
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Religions--History.
- Religions.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 315 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- The humanities offer insights into the highest (and lowest) capabilities of our own natures and, at their best, they function as prophetic champions of human dignity and as inspired celebrants of beauty. Envisioning God in the Humanities pays tribute to the career of Melissa Harl Sellew, a scholar and teacher who embodies the ideals of these academic disciplines. The collaboration of these essays attests to the potentialities for transcendence that emerge from rigorous and collective reflection on the texts, images, and ideas produced in ancient societies. Taking its cue from Professor Sellew's own distinguished scholarship, this collection of studies begins with analyses of the New Testament Gospels, then moves more broadly toward the religious life of the ancient world as attested both in literature and materiality, among Jews and Christians, Greeks and Romans. Just as Sellew has done throughout her career, so this volume invites us into to the joy of exploring distant societies and, in so doing, into the fuller discovery of one's own self.
- Contents:
- Introduction: an appreciation / Courtney J.P. Friesen
- From Mark to Mark to Mark: continuity and discontinuity in the narrative history of Mark's Gospel / Charles A. Bobertz
- Figs, pigs, and imperial Rome: Jesus and the barren fig tree in Mark 11 / Stephen Potthoff
- Double obfuscation of class struggle in Luke 13:10-17: regulation of labor, alienation, and failed revolutions / Steven J. Friesen
- "The thoughts of many hearts": interior characterization in the Gospel of Luke / Mark Reasoner
- The Pentecost narrative of Acts: history, tradition, and literature / Glen W. Menzies
- Contesting the gift of gnosis in 1 Corinthians / Geoffrey S. Smith
- "Why can't a woman be more like a man?": making Mary male (Thomas 114) in the gendered world of Antiquity / Stephen J. Patterson
- The Gospel of Judas and the end of Sethian Gnosticism / David Brakke
- The persistence of crafted memories: the Nag Hammadi Cartonnage, upper Egyptian monasticism, and the literary sources / James E. Goehring
- Messianism in Septuagint Amos? / W. Edward Glenny
- Jewish-Christian relations in Smyrna: rhetoric, reality, and the limits of historical knowledge / Michael W. Holmes
- Could Luke read Latin? New evidence that he did / Dennis R. MacDonald
- The house gathering and the poor in the Gospel of Mark / Dennis E. Smith
- Jesus and sympotic desire / David H. Sick
- Gluttony and drunkenness as Jewish and Christian virtues: from the comic Heracles to the Christ of the Gospels / Courtney J.P. Friesen
- The drama of apocalypse: from tragic hymns to the hymns of revelation /Justin P. Jeffcoat Schedtler
- Divine chemistry: nymphs, sacrament, and substance in the Greco-Roman world / Rabun Taylor.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781532656132
- 1532656130
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