Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside
Essays on the Urban and Rural Worlds of Early Christianity
Contributions by Jürgen Zangenberg Contributions by Markus Tiwald Contributions by Frits G. Naerebout Contributions by Reinhard von Bendemann Contributions by Martin Ebner Contributions by Jodi Magness Contributions by Gerd Theißen Contributions by Bert Jan Lintaert Peerbolte Contributions by Lukas Bormann Contributions by Jörg Frey Contributions by Tobias Nicklas Contributions by Markus Öhler Contributions by Zeev Weiss Contributions by Luigi Walt Contributions by Karen P.S. Janssen Contributions by Daniel Schowalter Contributions by Günter Stemberger Edited by Markus Tiwald Edited by Jürgen Zangenberg Series edited by Martin Ebner Series edited by Peter Lampe Series edited by Stefan Schreiber Series edited by Jürgen Zangenberg
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(April 2021)
ISBN: 9783525564943
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Ever since Jesus walked the hills of Galilee and Paul travelled the roads of Asia Minor and Greece, Christianity has shown a remarkable ability to adapt itself to various social and cultural environments. Recent research has demonstrated that these environments can only be very insufficiently termed as “rural” or “urban”. Neither was Jesus’ Galilee only rural, nor Paul’s Asia only “urban”. On the background of ongoing research on the diversity of social environments in the Early Empire, this volume will focus on various early Christian “worlds” as witnessed in canonical and non-canonical texts. How did Early Christians experience and react to “rural” and “urban” life? What were the mechanisms behind this adaptability? Papers will analyze the relation between urban Christian beginnings and the role of the rural Jesus-tradition. In what sense did the image 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? Papers will not only deal with various personalities or literary works whose various attitudes towards urban life became formative for future Christianity. They will also explore the different local milieus that demonstrate the wide range of Christian cultural perspectives.
Jürgen Zangenberg ist Professor für Neues Testament und Frühchristliche Literatur an der Universität Leiden.
- Contributions by Jürgen Zangenberg
- Contributions by Markus Tiwald
- Contributions by Frits G. Naerebout
- Contributions by Reinhard von Bendemann
- Contributions by Martin Ebner
- Contributions by Jodi Magness
- Contributions by Gerd Theißen
- Contributions by Bert Jan Lintaert Peerbolte
- Contributions by Lukas Bormann
- Contributions by Jörg Frey
- Contributions by Tobias Nicklas
- Contributions by Markus Öhler
- Contributions by Zeev Weiss
- Contributions by Luigi Walt
- Contributions by Karen P.S. Janssen
- Contributions by Daniel Schowalter
- Contributions by Günter Stemberger
- Edited by Markus Tiwald
- Edited by Jürgen Zangenberg
- Series edited by Martin Ebner
- Series edited by Peter Lampe
- Series edited by Stefan Schreiber
- Series edited by Jürgen Zangenberg
Other Titles in this Series
The Great Controversy
The Individual’s Struggle Between Good and Evil in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and in their Jewish and Christian Contexts
Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity
The Reception of New Testament Texts in Ancient Ascetic Discourses
Paulus als Briefroman erzählt
Studien zum antiken Briefroman und seiner christlichen Rezeption in den Pastoralbriefen
Zwischen Synoptikern und Gnosis – ein viertes Evangelium
Studien zum Johannesevangelium und zur Gnosis
Charakterisierung im Dialog
Maria Magdalena, Petrus, Thomas und die Mutter Jesu im Johannesevangelium im Kontext anderer frühchristlicher Darstellungen
Kaiserkult in Kleinasien
Die Entwicklung der kultisch-religiösen Kaiserverehrung in der römischen Provinz Asia von Augustus bis Antoninus Pius
Der “König” und sein “Volk”
Das Inter-Agieren des johanneischen Jesus vor dem Hintergrund hellenistisch-römischer Herrschermotivik
Men and Women in the Household of God
A Contextual Approach to Roles and Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles
Eros und Bekehrung
Anthropologische und religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu »Joseph und Aseneth«
Von Paulus zur Apokalypse – und weiter
Exegetische und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Neuen Testament; (samt englischsprachigen summaries)
Talking God in Society
Multidisciplinary (Re)constructions of Ancient (Con)texts. Festschrift for Peter Lampe. Vol. 1: Theories and Applications
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