Borders: Terminologies, Ideologies, and Performances
Edited by Annette Weissenrieder
Hardback (Published)
(October 2016)
ISBN: 9783161543753
6.34 x 9.41 inches
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What are the relevant conceptualities and terminologies marking political, juridical, cultural, cultic, or religious distinctions of “borders”? What did they signify in antiquity? Were “borders” dividing one thing from another imaginary or real? In this volume, an international group of archaeologists, classicists, historians, and biblical scholars investigates in these questions in discussing diverse terms, performances, and qualities of borders and ideologies of boundaries in antiquity.
In this volume, an international group of archaeologists, classicists, historians and biblical scholars investigates diverse terms, performances and qualities of borders and ideologies of boundaries in antiquity. Their primary focus is on physical borders and border zones of political organizations as well as of sanctuaries and houses, and on borderlines which can be experienced in demarcations and their relevance for religious life. The contributors also discuss instances where definitions of external borders are renounced altogether and states are organized from the center toward the outer margins, for example, with the sub-divisions of a given territory remaining undefined. And they look into trans-boundary social relationships, investigated on the basis of archaeological finds and textual sources, and their significance for the transfer of knowledge. Contributors: Michael Bachmann, David L. Balch, Barbara Bock, Bart B. Bruehler, Susanna Elm, Stefan Esders, James R. Harrison, Martina Kepper, Ingrid E. Lilly, Harry O. Maier, Georgia Petridou, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Annette Schellenberg, Barbara Schmitz, Alexander Sokolicek, Gert J. Steyn, Christine M. Thomas,Frank Ueberschaer, Ivan Varriale, Annette Weissenrieder, Holger Zellentin
Introduction
I. Borders, Frontiers, and Boundaries of Land and City: Terms, Performances and Ideologies
Annette Schellenberg: "And God Separated the Light from the Darkness" (Gen 1:4) - On the Role of Borders in the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch - Martina Kepper: What to Do with Borders When They Become Obsolete? Strategies of Re-defining Border Concepts in the Greek Text of Genesis - David L. Balch: Borders: Terms, Ideologies, and Performances. Jesus and the Samaritan/Judean Border - Harry O. Maier: Histoire Croisée, Entangled Bodies, Boundaries, and Socio-Political Geography in the Letter to the Colossians - Alexander Sokolicek: Betwixt and Between - The Cultural Roles of the Magnesian Gate in Greek-Roman Ephesus - Christine M. Thomas: The Magnesian Gate at Ephesos: Variant Readings of Monumentality at the Borders of the City - Stephan Esders: Deditio and Baptism: Religious Borders and the Integration of Barbarians in the Later Roman Empire - Susanna Elm: Response to Stefan Esders: Deditio and Baptism
II. Borders and Boundaries of Temples: Terms, Performances, and Ideologies
Barbara Schmitz: Space, Borders and Boundaries in the Letter of Aristeas - Georgia Petridou: Amorphous Epiphanies and Divine Bilingualism: Crossing Physical and Cultural Borders on the Battlefield - Anna-Katharina Rieger: Gods on the Rocks - Material Approaches to the Rock-Face at Caesarea Philippi (Mount Hermon) - Annette Weissenrieder: "Tear Down the Middle Wall of the Temple": The Meaning of mesotoichon in Ephesians 2:14
III. Borders and Boundaries of Houses: Terms, Performances, and Ideologies
Frank Ueberschaer: Borders between Privacy and Public in the Thinking of Ben Sira - Bart Bruehler: Open and Shut: The Real and Metaphorical Doors of the New Testament in their Mediterranean Context - Ivan Varriale: Otium and negotium, a Border Breaks Down in the Imperial Villas. The study case of Pausilypon
IV. Borders and Boundaries
Barbara Böck: On the Ancient Mesopotamian Concept of "Taboo": Transgression and Delimitation - Ingrid Lilly: Rȗaḥ Embodied: Job's Internal Disease from the Perspective of Mesopotamian Medicine - Gert J. Steyn: Crossing the Border - Reflections on Heb 13:13. "Let us then go to him outside the camp..." - Michael Bachmann: Important and Delicate: Borders According to Paul - James R. Harrison: Who is the "Lord of Grace"? Jesus' Parables in Imperial Context - Holger Zellentin: Jewish Dreams Between Roman Palestine and Sasanian Babylonia: Cultural and Geographic Borders in Rabbinic Discourse (Yerushalmi Ma'aser Sheni 55c, 15‒22 and Bavli Berakhot 56a‒b)
- Edited by Annette Weissenrieder
Other Titles in this Series
Die Gerechtigkeit der Tora im Reich des Messias
Mt 5,13-20 als Schlüsseltext der matthäischen Theologie
Bibelkritik und Auslegung der Heiligen Schrift
Beiträge zur Geschichte der biblischen Exegese und Hermeneutik
Die Nichtigkeit des Menschen und die Ubermacht Gottes
Studien zur Gottes- und Selbsterkenntnis bei Paulus, Philo und in der Stoa
Volume 377
Der Hochste
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Volume 330
Authoritative Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity
Their Origin, Collection, and Meaning
Übergemeindliche Verbindungen in den Briefen der paulinischen Mission
Vorkommen, Bedeutung, Funktion und Plausibilität
Expressions of the Johannine Kerygma in John 2:23-5:18
Historical, Literary, and Theological Readings from the Colloquium Ioanneum 2017 in Jerusalem
Studien zum Neuen Testament
Band II: Bekenntnisbildung und Theologie in urchristlicher Zeit
Volume 192
Paul, Founder of Churches
A Study in Light of the Evidence for the Role of Founder-Figures in the Hellenistic-Roman Period
Volume 292
Paul and the Emergence of Christian Textuality
Early Christian Literary Culture in Context. Collected Essays, Volume 1
Volume 393
Exegesis and History of Reception
Reading the New Testament Today with the Readers of the Past
Volume 455
Religiöse Erfahrung in Korinth
Paulus und die frühchristliche Bewegung im Kontext ihrer griechisch-römischen Erfahrungswelt
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4.-6. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 2012, 2014, 2016. -PAKET-
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