Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism
Contributions from Cognitive and Social Science
Biographical note
Petri Luomanen, Ph.D. (1996) in Theology, University of Helsinki, is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. He has published widely on the Gospel of Matthew, early Jewish Christianity and second-century Christianity, including A Companion to Second-Century Christian «Heretics» (Brill, 2005; co-edited with Antti Marjanen).
Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Ph.D. (1993) in Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki, is an Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He has published widely in the cognitive science of religion including How Religion Works (Brill, 2001).
Risto Uro, Ph.D. (1988) in Theology, University of Helsinki, is University Lecturer of New Testament Studies at the University of Helsinki. He has published widely on early Christianity and Gnosticism including Thomas: Seeking the Historical Context of the Gospel of Thomas (Continuum, 2003).
Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Ph.D. (1993) in Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki, is an Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He has published widely in the cognitive science of religion including How Religion Works (Brill, 2001).
Risto Uro, Ph.D. (1988) in Theology, University of Helsinki, is University Lecturer of New Testament Studies at the University of Helsinki. He has published widely on early Christianity and Gnosticism including Thomas: Seeking the Historical Context of the Gospel of Thomas (Continuum, 2003).
Editorial Board
Contributors include: István Czachesz, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Philip F. Esler, Raimo Hakola, Jutta Jokiranta, Kimmo Ketola, Hugo Lundhaug, Luther H. Martin, Vernon K. Robbins
Readership
All those interested in the history of early Christianity and Judaism, as well as other scholars of religion and of cognitive science.
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In reading Job 1-11, Bakhtin’s dialogism and chronotope define each different voice as a unique and equally weighted voice and reveal its dialogical interaction with other voices to produce better questions about Job rather than answers.
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Reading Heikki Räisänen’s hermeneutics in context, Timo Eskola explores the development of Western New Testament interpretation. Proposing sociology as the link between standard historicism and poststructuralism, Räisänen reinterprets the sociology of knowledge. He substitutes sacralized ...
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In Aposynagōgos and the Historical Jesus in John, Bernier argues that the Johannine expulsion passages could plausibly describe events that occurred during Jesus' lifetime.
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In Birthing Salvation Anna Rebecca Solevåg shows how childbearing discourse interfaces with salvation discourse in the Pastoral Epistles, the Acts of Andrew and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Issues of gender and class are explored through an intersectional analysis.
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The question ‘Which is the real Jesus’ is approached from different perspectives, illustrating the role the quest for the historical Jesus plays within a wider framework, including not only historical, but also philosophical and hermeneutical issues.
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Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Epistle of James offers an interpretation of Jas 2:1-13 putting the text in the midst of its Roman imperial context.
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In Revelation 21-22 in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Utopianism, Eric J. Gilchrest offers a creative and compelling reading of Revelation 21-22 as understood through the lenses of ancient Greco-Roman and Jewish utopianism.
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Ancient Jewish Interpreters read and rewrote the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel to address various challenges to the identity of 'Israel' in the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods.
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Die Darstellung der erzählten Welten im Richterbuch zeigt anhand einer narratologische Analyse der einzelnen Erzählzyklen wie die (Re)konstruktion einer Epoche Israels in einem vielstimmigen Diskurs zwischen Bewunderung und Befremden entfaltet wird.
The analysis of the narrated worlds in the ...
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In The Questions of Jesus in John Douglas Estes crafts a theory of question-asking based on insights from ancient rhetoric and modern linguistics in order to investigate the logical and rhetorical purposes of Jesus' questions in the Fourth Gospel.
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