"The Teaching of These Words" Intertextuality, Social Identity, and Early Christianity

Essays in Honor of Clayton N. Jefford
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69008-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: The Bible in Ancient Christianity

What does it mean for a group to speak of its identity and, in contrast, to speak about the “other”? As with all groups, early Christian communities underwent a process of identity formation, and in this process, intertextuality played a role. The choice of biblical texts and imageries, their reception and adaptation, affected how early Christian communities perceived themselves. Conversely, how they perceived themselves affected which texts they were drawn to and how they read and received them. The contributors to this volume examine how early Christian authors used Scripture and related texts and, in turn, how those texts shaped the identity of their communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Draper, Jonathan A.

Pardee, Nancy D.

Wilhite, Shawn J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Clayton N. Jefford: A Brief Biography

Susan Sanders Jefford

Abbreviations

Introduction

Shawn J. Wilhite

1 Diverse and Contrasting Values of Priesthood in Second-Century Christian Texts

Joseph G. Mueller, S.J.

2 The Social Identity of the Travelers between the Early Communities of Jesus-Followers

Thomas O’Loughlin

3 Ritual Practice and Identity Formation in Early Christianity

Jonathan Schwiebert

4 “An Image in Place of an Image”: The Search for Meaning and the Formation of Identity

Stephen J. Patterson

5 Paul’s Epistle to the Romans and the Catechesis of Gentiles in the Didache

Jonathan A. Draper

6 Salvation by One Step or Two? The Didache, Acts and the Background to Galatians

Alan Garrow

7 The “Yoke of the Lord” and the Community of the Didache: The Debate Continues

Nancy D. Pardee

8 “You Must Love Those Who Hate You”: Social Oppression and the Sectio evangelica in the Didache’s Two Ways

Shawn J. Wilhite

9 Reading Community: Election, Salvation History, and Christian Identity in 1 Clement

Stephen O. Presley

10 Abraham’s 318 Circumcised Men and the Figure of Eliezer (Lazarus) in Barnabas 9.8

Clare K. Rothschild

11 Ritual Practice and Social Formation in Mark and Ignatius of Antioch

Charles A. Bobertz

12 Christian Identity through a Threefold Declaration in the Martyrdom of Polycarp

Paul Anthony Hartog

13 Apocalyptic and Social Identity in the Second Century: Irenaeus’s Reading of John’s Apocalypse

D. Jeffrey Bingham

Clayton N. Jefford’s Academic Publications and Contributions

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan A. Draper, Ph.D. (1984), Cambridge, is Professor Emeritus, University of Natal. He has published widely on topics in the New Testament and early Christianity as well as on subjects for the contemporary church. He is currently writing a new commentary on the Didache.

Nancy D. Pardee, Ph.D. (2002), University of Chicago, is administrator for the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago. She has publications in biblical and early Christian studies, including The Genre and Development of the “Didache” (Mohr Siebeck, 2012).

Shawn J. Wilhite, Ph.D. (2023), Durham University, is Associate Professor of New Testament at California Baptist University. He has published monographs and articles in the field of Early Christianity and Patristics, including The Didache: A Commentary (Cascade, 2019).