From Jesus to his first followers : continuity and discontinuity : anthropological and historical perspectives / Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Destro, Adriana, author.

Pesce, Mauro, author.

Series:

Biblical Interpretation Series 152.

Biblical interpretation series ; v. 152

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections. English

Language:

English

German

Italian

Subjects (All):

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

Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 335 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2017

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

From Jesus to His First Followers examines to what extent early Christian groups were in continuity or discontinuity with respect to Jesus. Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce concentrate on the transformation of religious practices. Their anthropological-historical analysis focuses on the relations between discipleship and households, on the models of contact with the supernatural world, and on cohabitation among distinct religious groups. The book highlights how Matthew uses non-Jewish instruments of legitimation, John reformulates religious experiences through symbolized domestic slavery, Paul adopts a religious practice diffused in Roman-Hellenistic environments. The book reconstructs the map of early Christian groups in the Land of Israel and explains their divergences on the basis of an original theory of the local origin of Gospels’ information.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

The Interstitial Movement of Jesus and the oikos

The Conflict of Jesus with the Society of His Time

Between Family and Temple: Jesus and Sacrifices

Kinship and Movement: Closeness and Distance in John’s Perspective

The Practice of the Heavenly Journey: The Case of Paul

Practices of Contact With the Supernatural: From Jesus to His Followers

The Places of Jesus’ Followers in the Land of Israel: Local Origins of the Gospels’ Sources

Divergent Lines of Transmission and Memory: The Passion Narratives in Mark and John

A Persecuted and Antagonistic Minority: The Strategy of Matthew

‘Mise en histoire’ and Social Memory: The Politics of the Acts of the Apostles

Investigating Domestic Slavery in John

The Separation of the Jesus’ Followers from the Jews: The Case of Burial Space

Bibliography

Index of Names

Thematic Index.

Notes:

Compilation of essays originally published by the authors in English, German, or Italian, most previously published at conferences, in journals, or as chapters of other publications.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-324) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-33766-0

OCLC:

958781745

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004337664 DOI