Reimagining Christian origins : a colloquium honoring Burton L. Mack / edited by Elizabeth A. Castelli and Hal Taussig.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Valley Forge, Pa. : Trinity Press International, c1996.Description: xvii, 332 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1563381710 (alk. paper)
  • 1563381729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.1 20 C276r
LOC classification:
  • BR129 .R45 1996
Contents:
Introduction: Drawing large and startling figures: reimagining Christian origins by painting like Picasso / Elizabeth A. Castelli and Hal Taussig -- Not of this world: early Christianities as rhetorical and social formation / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Mythmaking and intertextuality in early Christianity / Ron Cameron -- Feminist myths of Christian origins / Kathleen E. Corley -- Elusive coherence: ritual and rhetoric in 1 Corinthians 10-11 / Stanley K. Stowers -- Building blocks in the social history of Q / James M. Robinson -- Itinerants and householders in the earliest kingdom movement / John Dominic Crossan -- The sign of Jonah (Q 11:29-32) and other epic traditions in Q / Jonathan L. Reed -- Futuristic eschatology and social formation in Q / David Seely -- Mackinations on myth and origins / Karen L. King -- Imperial reimaginings of Christian origins: epic in Prudentius's Poem for the martyr Eulalia / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- The son of Timaeus: blindness, sight, ascent, vision in Mark / Earle Hilgert -- Immortality and religious identity in Wisdom 2-5 / Robert J. Miller -- Parable and myth, argument and pronouncement in Luke 10:25-37 / Merrill P. Miller --The physiognomy of the blind: the Johannine story of the blind man / Michael L. Humphries -- Egalitarianism in the myth and rhetoric of Pauline churches / John S. Kloppenborg -- Dealing under the table: ritual negotiation of women's power in the Syro-Phoenician woman pericope / Hal Taussig -- Bird-watching at the baptism of Jesus: early Christian mythmaking in Mark 1:9-11 / Leif E. Vaage -- Praise for the churches: the rhetorical function of the opening sections of the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch / Shawn Carruth -- Social experience and the beginning of the Gospel of Mark / Ronald F. Hock.

"Bibliography of Burton L. Mack": p.327-329.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Drawing large and startling figures: reimagining Christian origins by painting like Picasso / Elizabeth A. Castelli and Hal Taussig -- Not of this world: early Christianities as rhetorical and social formation / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Mythmaking and intertextuality in early Christianity / Ron Cameron -- Feminist myths of Christian origins / Kathleen E. Corley -- Elusive coherence: ritual and rhetoric in 1 Corinthians 10-11 / Stanley K. Stowers -- Building blocks in the social history of Q / James M. Robinson -- Itinerants and householders in the earliest kingdom movement / John Dominic Crossan -- The sign of Jonah (Q 11:29-32) and other epic traditions in Q / Jonathan L. Reed -- Futuristic eschatology and social formation in Q / David Seely -- Mackinations on myth and origins / Karen L. King -- Imperial reimaginings of Christian origins: epic in Prudentius's Poem for the martyr Eulalia / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- The son of Timaeus: blindness, sight, ascent, vision in Mark / Earle Hilgert -- Immortality and religious identity in Wisdom 2-5 / Robert J. Miller -- Parable and myth, argument and pronouncement in Luke 10:25-37 / Merrill P. Miller --The physiognomy of the blind: the Johannine story of the blind man / Michael L. Humphries -- Egalitarianism in the myth and rhetoric of Pauline churches / John S. Kloppenborg -- Dealing under the table: ritual negotiation of women's power in the Syro-Phoenician woman pericope / Hal Taussig -- Bird-watching at the baptism of Jesus: early Christian mythmaking in Mark 1:9-11 / Leif E. Vaage -- Praise for the churches: the rhetorical function of the opening sections of the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch / Shawn Carruth -- Social experience and the beginning of the Gospel of Mark / Ronald F. Hock.

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