Identity Formation in the New Testament
edited by Bengt Holmberg and Mikael Winninge
This conference volume focuses on showing that investigating various aspects of the Christian movement’s identity helps us to understand its historical reality. Whatever is known about identity from ancient times reaches us mostly through ancient texts. Thus many of the essays in this volume are devoted to analyzing New Testament texts and showing how they reveal the processes of identity formation. One type of evidence here is how New Testament texts compare with or treat older texts which are in the same normative tradition, in other words biblical and Jewish texts. Another group of essays deals with specific literary techniques used in the service of creating identity, such as personification, stereotyping or marginalizing others as well as looking at the relationship between different kinds of social identity. A third group of essays directs attention to the light that gender analysis casts on the shaping of Christian identity, pointing both to surprising similarities and differences from the surrounding culture. The final group of essays applies the insights of postcolonial theory and its sensitivity to power relationships and the political dimension of human reality.
The Role of Biblical Traditions in Identity Formation Samuel Byrskog: Christology and Identity in Intertextual Perspective. The Glory of Adam in the Narrative Substructure of Paul's Letter to the Romans - Per Jarle Bekken: The Controversy on Self-Witness according to John 5:31-40
8:12-20 and Philo, Legum Allegoriae 3.205-208 - Tobias Hagerland: Rituals of (Ex-)Communication and Identity: 1 Cor 5 and 4Q266 11
4Q270 7 Identity Construction in texts Judith Lieu: Literary Strategies of Personification - Lauri Thuren: The Antagonists. Rhetorically Marginalized Identities in the New Testament - Thomas Kazen: Son of Man and Early Christian Identity Formation - Raimo Hakola: Social Identity and a Stereotype in the Making. Pharisees as Hypocrites in Matthew 23 - Rikard Roitto: Act as a Christ-believer, as a Household Member or Both? A Cognitive Perspective on the Relation Between the Social Identity in Christ and Household Identities in Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Texts Gender-analytical Perspectives Halvor Moxnes: Body, Gender, and Social Space. Dilemmas in Constructing Early Christian Identities - Fredrik Ivarsson: A Man Has To Do What A Man Has To Do. Protocols of Masculine Sexual Behaviour and 1 Corinthians 5-7 - Hanna Stenstrom: Masculine or Feminine? Male Virgins in Joseph and Aseneth and The Book of Revelation Postcolonial Analyses Hans Leander: The Parousia as Medicine. A Postcolonial Perspective on Mark and Christian Identity Construction - Christina Petterson: Mission of Christ and Local Communities in Acts - Anna Rebecca Solevag: Perpetua and Felicitas. Reinterpreting Empire, Family and Sexuality
- Edited by Bengt Holmberg
- Edited by Mikael Winninge
Other Titles in this Series
Die Evangelien und die Apostelgeschichte
Studien zu ihrer Theologie und zu ihrer Geschichte
Volume 241
Good Works in 1 Peter
Negotiating Social Conflict and Christian Identity in the Greco-Roman World
Volume 337
Vermittelte Gegenwart
Konzeptionen der Gottesprasenz von der Zeit des Zweiten Tempels bis Anfang des 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr.
Volume 367
Der Nous bei Paulus und in seiner Umwelt
Griechisch-römische, frühjüdische und frühchristliche Perspektiven
Kontexte des Johannesevangeliums
Das vierte Evangelium in religions- und traditionsgeschichtlicher Perspektive
Die vier Evangelien und das eine Evangelium von Jesus Christus
Studien zu ihrer Sammlung und Entstehung
Volume 224
Die Inkulturation des Christentums
Aufsatze und Studien zum Neuen Testament und seiner Umwelt
Volume 255
Die vier Evangelien und das eine Evangelium von Jesus Christus
Studien zu ihrer Sammlung und Entstehung
Volume 224
Die Pastoralbriefe und das Vermachtnis des Paulus
Studien zu den Briefen an Timotheus und Titus
Volume 476
Ethik der Zeit – Zeiten der Ethik
Ethische Temporalität in Antike und Christentum. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics. Band XIV
Volume 510
Gemeinde ohne Tempel /Community without Temple
Zur Substituierung und Transformation des Jerusalemer Tempels und seines Kults im Alten Testament, antiken Judentum und frühen Christentum
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