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Dacy, Marianne Josephine, and Marianne Josephine Dacy. "The Separation of Early Christianity from Judaism." University of Sydney. Semitic Studies, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/837.
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The Separation of Early Christianity from Judaism The moving apart of early Christianity from Judaism was a gradual process of de- judaisation, with separation taking place on several levels. Chapter One looks at the spread of Christianity and the physical moving apart of Jews and Christians by observing the geographical locations of the bishops attending various councils. Chapter Two examines the question of the Jewish-Christians who attempted to be both Jewish and Christian at the same time. In Chapter Three, statements about Jews in the early church councils which reveal judaising practices have been examined. Chapter Four studies the process of juridical separation of Jews from Christians as shown by an examination of the Theodosian Code. The fifth chapter examines the Jewish roots of Christian liturgy and focuses on the element that radically differentiated Christian from Jewish liturgy - its christological focus. Chapter Six speaks of the separation of Sabbath observance from Sunday observance, outlining the struggle to prevent Christians, who were accused of judaising, from celebrating the Sabbath as well as Sunday. Chapter Seven concentrates on the separation of Passover from Easter. While Chapter Eight investigates the development of a distinctly Christian archaeology, the ninth area of separation concerns the subject of Christianity in the rabbinic writings. In the nine areas studied, two pervasive causes of separation have been identified. The first concerns the non-practice of Jewish ritual law, when Christianity became predominantly a religion of non-Jews. Christianity, in order to define itself closed its ranks to Jewish practices. The second cause leading to separation was the messianic movement centred on Jesus, and the growing emphasis on the divinity of Jesus. This was reflected in the developing Christian liturgy, in the christianisation of Passover, the Eucharist and the practice of Sunday over and above the Jewish Sabbath.
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Bockmuehl, M. N. A. "Revelation and mystery in Ancient Judaism and Pauline Christianity." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233680.
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This dissertation conducts a theological study of Ancient Jewish and Pauline views of revelation and of revealed mysteries. Part one offers first a general introduction consisting of a summary of Old Testament antecedents to the post-biblical topic under discussion, and some observations about the nature and delineation of the 'Judaism' under examination. The following seven Chapters then address the understanding of revelation in general, and of revealed mysteries in particular, in various bodies of Jewish writings: apocalyptic literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, wisdom literature, Philo, Josephus, the Targums and Greek versions, and early Rabbinic literature. Part One concludes with a brief synthetic statement outlining commonalities and distinctions in the different writings surveyed, highlighting the derivative nature of revelation (and the corresponding role of Biblical interpretation), and pointing out the significance of soteriological mysteries for questions of theodicy. After a short introduction, Part Two traces our theme in the letters of Paul. Chapter 8 offers a thematic treatment of Paul's fundamental view of revelation according to its past, present, and future dimensions, together with a brief assessment of the remaining revelatory value of the Old Testament. This is followed by an analysis of some specific passages dealing with the theme of a revelation of mysteries in the Roman and Corinthian correspondence (Chapter 9) and in Colossians (Chapter 10). The Conclusion begins with a short evaluation of previous research into relevant notions of revelation and of mystery. This is followed by a summary of the overall argument. The final observations evaluate the significance of the results for Jewish and Pauline studies, suggesting inter alis both a paradigmatic difference in the substance of revelation and yet a certain logical symmetry in the manner of its apprehension and development.
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Breiner, B. "Abraham in Judaism, Christianity and Islam : faith and encounter." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518004.
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This thesis attempts an analysis of the role played by Abraham in the religious consciousness of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The first chapter presents a theoretical construct which serves as the basis for subsequent analysis. It is argued that one of the major functions of religious consciousness is the integration of experience into a coherent perception of reality. This involves providing a mechanism for identifying, constructing and crossing various kinds of boundaries. The first chapter then attempts to analyze the role of Abraham specifically in terms of identifying and crossing boundaries. The second chapter attempts to use the figure of Abraham to analyze the coherent perception of reality which is offered by each faith to its believing community. The third chapter takes the figure of Abraham as a means of looking at the problem of conflicting perceptions of reality. The problem of religious versus "empirical" approaches to truth is discussed in relation to the historical problems raised by the figure of Abraham and finally the discussion turns to differing religious perceptions of reality.
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Zetterholm, Magnus. "The formation of Christianity in Antioch : a social-scientific approach to the separation between Judaism and Christianity /." London : Routledge, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39040379j.
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Voss, Verne N. "An examination of the theology and practice of Judaism in the light of the Holy Scriptures." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Miller, Troy Anthony. "Emergence of the concept of heresy in early Christianity : the context of internal social conflict in first-century Christianity and late second Temple sectarianism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10603.
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The present thesis endeavors to identify the context out of which the conceptual category of heresy initially emerged within early Christianity. As such, it will not focus on any single heresy or heresiological issue, but rather on the emergence of the notion of heresy itself. The context proposed from which the Christian idea of heresy first emerged is not the institutionalization of orthodoxy within the second-century church, but rather, the dynamics of internal social conflict, which is visible in situations of internal deviance within first century Christianity and in at least one strand of the sectarianism of Second Temple Judaism. In Part I, which is a single chapter (two), I appeal to the social sciences to help articulate a social understanding of the concept of heresy, not in an effort to replace the ecclesiastical understanding, which holds heresy to be a belief or teaching that stands in opposition to or deviates from an orthodox norm/doctrine and which dominates scholarly perception on the topic, but as a complement to it. The aim of the chapter is to identify a set of characteristics that mark heresy as a unique social phenomenon. In Part II, I turn to Galatians (chapter three) and parts of Revelation 2-3 (chapter four), as test cases for the viability of locating the phenomenological characteristics noted in chapter two within these two first-century contexts of internal social conflict. After surveying the settings of conflict and the given author's responses to them, I conclude that though heresy (in the ecclesiastical sense) is not demarcated in these contexts, they are a likely context out of which the early Christian conceptual category of heresy initially emerged. Part Ill reflects an effort to see whether there may be earlier settings of internal social conflict that are analogous to these first-century contexts. Based on the argument that the exclusiveness inherent to these first-century situations of internal conflict, as well as the notion of heresy, requires a monotheistic religious framework, I turn solely to Second Temple Judaism. Relying upon a phenomenological characterization of religious sects, I (in chapter five) highlight the emerging sectarian markings evident in groups around the beginning of the second Jewish commonwealth. Chapter six, then, reflects an attempt to gauge the extremes of sectarian commitments and expression in late Second Temple Judaism by noting the sectarian features of groups behind the Habakkuk Pesher and the Psalms of Solomon. Ultimately, I conclude that these two settings of sectarian conflict bear a phenomenological resemblance to the first-century Christian situations of internal social conflict previously surveyed. Part IV, which is a single chapter (seven), reflects an effort to track when and how the early Christian notion of heresy emerged from these settings of internal social conflict, primarily through a study of the New Testament evidence of [Greek characters];. As the term moves from possessing a neutral to a pejorative to a defamatory meaning, I appeal to linguistic theory, namely semantics and sociolinguistics, in an effort to (1) characterize the type of shift in meaning that occurred in [Greek characters]; and (2) begin to locate any forces or factors that may have been influential in this linguistic transformation. Ultimately, I combine this analysis of [Greek characters]; with the previous work on the dynamic of internal social conflict in the first century and the late Second Temple period to construct a diachronic presentation of how the concept of heresy initially came into early Christian thought and writing. Chapter eight brings the thesis to a close by briefly revisiting the main conclusions of the study and identifying the primary contributions that it makes to various areas of Christian Origins research.
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Al-habashneh, Bahjat. "The concept of the Messiah in the three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501230.
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Harlow, Daniel C. "The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity /." Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E. J. Brill, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35803319d.
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Brooks, Andrea. "The Not-So Gnostic Crisis: Encrateia in Exegesis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/107.
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How should Christians live so as to set them apart in manner of life from Jews? This is one of the first questions asked by early Christian exegetes as Christians sought separation from Judaism. 1 While it may seem like a simple and obvious question, it caused heated controversy from the second century well into the present. This struggle for orthodoxy, or an orthodox doctrine, connects to both Christianity within the teachings of Jesus, the Pauline epistles and pseudo-Pauline writings, as well as to the culture and philosophy of the East and West. Much of the debate finds itself being addressed in the broad question "how should a Christian live?" Out of this question came the development of asceticism, marking the beginnings of monasticism.
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Sweeney, Mark. "Islam and Christianity: Comparing the Theory of Supersession Concerning Abraham." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1557.
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Supersession is the theory of one idea supplanting the other. In both Christianity and Islam, this idea is commonplace. In Christianity, the message of Jesus creates a New Covenant for both Jews and Gentiles, while in Islam, the revelation of Muhammad restores the original religion that God intended from the beginning. Christianity and Islam both supersede Judaism in very similar ways. In regards to the use of Abraham in particular, each religion inherits him by appealing to Jewish scripture or their oral tradition, using him to prove their truth claims, and claiming that their religion is originally the religion of Abraham.
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Reed, Annette Yoshiko. "Fallen angels and the history of Judaism and Christianity : the reception of Enochic literature /." New York, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005018156.html.
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Petropoulou, Maria-Zoe. "Animal sacrifice in Greek religion, Judaism and early Christianity in the period 100BC-AD200." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408197.
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Silva, Jonas Euflausino da. "Jesus e sua relação com os fariseus: um estudo a partir da pesquisa histórica e do Evangelho segundo Mateus." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2016. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1207.
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A relação entre Jesus e os fariseus sempre foi encarada como conflituosa, de forma a estabelecer a compreensão que ela respaldou o sentimento de ruptura entre o cristianismo e o judaísmo. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo estudar a figura do Jesus histórico, em sua relação com o farisaísmo de seus dias, a partir do evangelho segundo Mateus e das fontes históricas. A abordagem metodológica utilizada será o paradigma judaico da terceira busca pelo Jesus histórico, que consiste em reconhecer que Jesus era um judeu típico do século I, portanto, conectado com o seu contexto social e religioso. A partir de uma análise dos desenvolvimentos histórico e ideológico do partido dos fariseus, bem como de suas crenças distintivas, far-se-á um comparativo entre os ensinamentos de Jesus com as diversas crenças farisaicas, tendo como fonte, os escritos teológicos judaicos que transitavam no século I e o Evangelho segundo Mateus, aplicando a eles o critério da hermenêutica histórica crítica.The relationship between Jesus and the Pharisees was always seen as confrontational, in order to establish the understanding that it endorsed the sense of rupture between Christianity and Judaism. This work aims to study the figure of the historical Jesus in his relationship with the self-righteousness of his days, from the Gospel of Matthew and historical sources. The methodological approach will be the Jewish paradigm of the third quest for the historical Jesus, which is to recognize that Jesus was a typical first-century Jew therefore connected with their social and religious context. From an analysis of the historical and ideological developments of the party of the Pharisees, as well as their distinctive beliefs, far It will be a comparison between the teachings of Jesus with the various self-righteous beliefs, with the source, the Jewish theological writings transiting in the first century and the Gospel of Matthew, applying to them the criterion of historical criticism hermeneutics.
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Lancaster, Irene. "Abraham ibn Ezra : hermeneutics and Torah." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306911.
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Dixon, David J. "Christian missions to the Jews : the quest to convert in England, c.1875-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391008.
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Lucass, Shirley. "The concept of messiah in Judaism and Christianity and its implications for Jewish-Christian relations." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492082.
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Sena, Pera Juan Pablo <1978>. "The Polemic Construction of Judaism at the origins of Christianity: from Paul to Justin Martyr." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7099/.
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This research aims to identify the guidelines that are opposed to Judaism in the body of the work Dialogue with Trypho of Justin Martyr, using the methodology engendered by Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson in their work, The Established and the Outsiders. As a result, our research intends to contribute to unveil another aspect of Justin’s work, considered by many scholars as a proselytistic tool; by taking it as a document builder of the Christian identity trough its dissociation from Judaism. For this reason, this thesis investigates and reviews the socio-cultural and political environment that gave rise to Roman Christianity, taking into consideration Christian internal conflicts and the resulting dichotomies within the Roman Christian community, as a result of its departure from its Jewish matrix.
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Kim, Kyu Seop. "The firstborn son in ancient Judaism and early Christianity : a study of primogeniture and Christology." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=228200.
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Ribak, Eliya. "Religious Communities in Byzantine Palestina: the Relationship Between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, AD 400 - 700." Thesis, University of Reading, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485370.
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This is an archaeological analysis of the relationship between religious communities in Byzantine Palestina, based on a catalogue of excavated Byzantine sites in the region (forming an appendix to the work). After outlining the historical, archaeological and environmental.contexts of the study, the identification and dating of excavated synagogues and churches are re-evaluated. This shows that, although there are clear-cut examples of Jewish and Samaritan synagogues and Christian churches, these buildings are often so similar that it is difficult to differentiate between them. It is also shown that Jewish and Christian burial practices were so similar that, unless' accompanied inscriptions or symbols, the religious id~tity of burials is often difficult to recogmze. This suggests that different communities shared similar material cultures of religious practice, probably resulting from peaceful inter-communal interaction, and highlights chronological problems in the archaeology of Byzantine Palestina. Spatial analysis of reliably identified religious buildings is then used to show that different religious communities frequently occupied the same landscapes, and even the same settlements. The credibility ofusing symbols on portable artefacts to indicate religious identity is assessed, and supported, by examining their association with other religious indicators. Spatial analysis of these artefacts supports the patterns already established, strengthening the interpretation that different religious communities lived in close proximity. This evidence is used to argue for closer and more peaceful co-existence between religious communities in Byzantine Palestina than is usually supposed. It is suggested that this relative religious harmony contributed to the economic prosperity of the region in the Byzantine period. This apparently came to an end in the late sixth or seventh century, when most excavated Byzantine sites in the region were probably disused. Although other explanations (such as plague) are possible, this widespread abandonment may be a consequence of the Persian and/or Muslim invasions.
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Esterson, Zachary. "A translation of, and select commentary on, Victorinus of Pettau's commentary on the Apocalypse." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/97767/.
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Gaudin, Gary A. "Hope becomes command : Emil L. Fackenheim's "destructive recovery" of hope in post-Shoa Jewish theology and its implications for Jewish-Christian dialogue." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82878.
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Emil Ludwig Fackenheim became a Rabbi even as the Holocaust was claiming the lives of six million Jews. Further study, first in Scotland and then in Canada, brought him to an impressive academic career in philosophy, to which he committed much of his life and writings. Yet he was also driven to try to respond theologically to the Shoa, so as to offer Judaism a genuine alternative to the nineteenth century tradition of liberal Judaism which had not been able to withstand or fight against National Socialism when Hitler came to political power. By going behind that failed nineteenth century tradition, primarily in dialogue with the thought of Rosenzweig and Buber, Fackenheim thought, by the middle of the sixth decade of the twentieth century, that he had rediscovered a solid core for post-Auschwitz Jewish faith: one rooted in a recovery of supernatural revelation, of God's presence in, and the messianic goal of, history. The Six Day War of June 1967 threw his careful reconstruction of Jewish faith into disarray, however. Facing a second Holocaust in one lifetime; and with an acute awareness that once again the Jewish people stood alone, Fackenheim raised questions about God and history and the Messianic which utterly destroyed his reconstruction. Even as he struggled with the crisis, however, he began to discern that hope had become a commandment. He began a process of even more profound reconstruction (or "destructive recovery") of the faith that radically reshaped the possibility of hope for Jewish faith in a post-Shoa world. And Christian theologians in dialogue with him find it necessary to embark on a destructive recovery of hope for the Christian tradition as an authentically Christian response to Auschwitz. Emerging from that dialogue is a fresh appreciation of the self-critical tradition of the theology of the cross.
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Greene-McCreight, Kathryn E. "A proposal of a Pauline paradigm for the relation of the church to the synagogue." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Ginther, Mike. "Anti-Semitism anguish in perpetuity for the Jewish soul /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p047-0058.
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Barroso, André Luis dos Santos 1968. "Interações culturais no interior dos cristianismos : experiências religiosas plurais na Costa Norte-africana nos dois primeiros séculos da Era Comum." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281101.
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Orientador: André Leonardo ChevitareseTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: O presente trabalho pretende repensar a datação estabelecida para o surgimento de comunidades cristãs na costa norte-africana, mais especificamente nas regiões do Egito e Alexandria, comumente estabelecida entre os séculos III e IV, com algumas ponderações para a segunda metade do século II. Tal perspectiva conta com um intenso trabalho de construção de uma teoria de análise metodológica que visa estabelecer um padrão a partir do corpus paulino e do conhecimento da documentação que estuda os centros de populações judaicas fora da região da Palestina conseqüência dos sucessivos processos de dominação. É importante notar que a perspectiva deste trabalho se ancora no fato de que quando se trata de cultura e religião antigas, em geral e de cristianismo e judaísmo antigos, no particular, só é possível um tratamento no plural, tendo em vista que estes processos comportam todas as ambigüidades que podemos pensar e, que a tentativa de homogeneizar está intimamente ligada às relações de poder que se estabeleçam na política, nas relações de gênero, estasservem à construção de práticas e posturas intolerantes e fundamentalistas. Esta pesquisa buscou baixar a cronologia de experiências "cristãs" com base na documentação,dialogando-a com a teoria de Carlo Ginzburg (1989) que trata dos paradigmas indiciários aplicado ao material neotestamentário, canônico e não canônico, bem com cartas e textos advindo do mundo politeísta
Abstract: This work intends to rethink the dating established for the rise of the Christian Communities on the North African coast, specifically in the regions of Egypt and Alexandria, commonly established between the third and fourth centuries, with some considerations for the second half of the second century. This perspective has an intense work of building a theory of methodological analysis aimed at establishing a pattern from the Pauline corpus of knowledge and documentation centers studying Jewish populations outside of Palestine region consequence of successive processes of domination. It is important to note that perspective of this work is anchored in fact that when it comes to ancient culture and religion, in general and ancient Christianity and Judaism, in particular, is only possible treatment in the plural, given that these processes involve all ambiguities and we think that the attempt to homogenize is closely linked to power relations that are established in politics, gender relations, these practices serve to build intolerant and fundamentalist attitudes. This Researchsought to lower the chronology of experiences "Christians" based on the documentation,talking to the theory of Carlo Ginsburg (1989) theory dealing with evidentiary paradigms applied to the New Testament, canonical and non-canonical material, along with letters and texts coming from the polytheistic world
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Eldridge, Michael David. "Dying Adam with his multiethnic family : understanding the 'Greek life of Adam and Eve'." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/dying-adam-with-his-multiethnic-family--understanding-the-greek-life-of-adam-and-eve(6f882d7a-2845-4f54-9594-a81ec2135010).html.
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Towers, Susanna C. "The construction of gender in late antique Manichaean cosmological narrative." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/110835/.
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The religion of Manichaeism emerged from third-century Persian Mesopotamia from the self styled prophet and apostle of Christ, Mani. Through missionary endeavours, Manichaeism proliferated throughout the Roman Empire, Asia and China between the third and eighth centuries, before succumbing to persecution from rival faiths. Mani’s dramatic cosmological mythology forms the core of Manichaean practice and soteriology. This thesis explores the constructions of gender in Mani’s mythology and its development in subsequent Manichaean literature. The analysis considers constructions of gender embedded in six portraits of Manichaean cosmological figures. Gendered roles, attributes and epithets are explored, revealing hierarchical systems of roles and relations.
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Shaikh, Abdul Bashid. "Medieval and modern concepts of creation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with reference to the Tenets of Faith." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.588743.
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It should be noted that comparative religion to a large extent still remains an under developed field in Western academia even to this day. We find that today there are a great number of works and esteemed writers who have written a great deal on the respective faiths in quite detail. However, by the same virtue, we find that works, journals and indeed articles on the facets of comparative religion are in short supply and it can be said that demand for such treatises/discussions exceeds supply in the world of academia. My reasons for conducting a study of the main facets of the Abrahamic faiths stems from a desire to encourage and bring advances in the field of comparative religion. I believe studies in comparative religion have the ability to stimulate discussion and advance research with the main aim of fostering dialogue and mutual respect between the faiths. It is essential that the children of tomorrow see a bright future where mutual respect, tolerance and understanding is the order of the day rather than witnessing an environment dominated by suspicion, conflict and contempt based on misunderstandings. This thesis is unique in many ways more than one that will come apparent in due course. Firstly, this work marks a first from the point of view in which the main tenets of faith found in the Old, New Testament and the Qur'an are explored in extensive detail with the aim of highlighting similarities and indeed differences that in the main centre upon doctrinal issues. Recent modern scholarship has tended to discuss and criticise doctrinal points with little emphasis being placed on comparative elements. Secondly, if one conducts a literature review of works on the Abrahamic faiths, it is not surprising to find writers and commentators have solely concentrated on doctrines pertaining on solely one faith. It seems many in the academic world have shied away from conducting a comparative study of the doctrines found in the Abrahamic faiths. At this point, I shall make it clear that I have deliberately chosen to ignore faiths, such as Hinduism and Sikh ism not through ignorance, but primarily due to constraints placed by the thesis, as well as the fact that these great faiths do not share a common denominator witnessed in the form of Abraham, who undoubtedly is the father of the three monotheistic faiths namely, Judaism, Christianity, and last but not least Islam. One might at this point be inclined to ask why conduct such a study involving medieval and modern concepts of creation within a scriptural context. I am of the view that such a study was required for a number of reasons that I shall outline in due course. Recent modern scholarship in the last fifty years has tended to focus upon the medieval concepts of creation and emanation in Judeo-Christian and Islamic philosophy and theology and as a result we find a plethora of treatises and works devoted to the above subjects. For example, writers such as Herbert Davison and Harry Austyn Wolfson as well as other academics devoted a great deal of time and energy in giving us access to knowledge about theology and philosophy that was previously only available to those who had a mastery of the Greek and Arabic language. Despite this significant contribution made by the aforementioned scholars, we find that the heirs to Wolfson and Davison have not emerged in the world of Western academia that are prepared to explore the new relationship between religion and modern science in the 21st century. As a consequence, a research gap has emerged that is crying out to be filled and currently we have a situation where little attention and focus has been placed on the works of modern scholars exploring the relationship between modern science and the theological interpretations concerning the existence of God and humankind for that matter. Part one of the thesis compares the main tenets of faith found in the three scriptures mentioned earlier. The scriptures repeatedly refer to the themes of monotheism, stories of the prophets and eschatology, as well as the purpose and significance of creation. The Qur'anic scripture discusses the above themes throughout the 114 chapters. The Old Testament and New Testament also refer to the above themes. Part two of the thesis takes a detailed look at the concept of creation in the Abrahamic faiths with particular emphasis being placed on its evolution from the medieval period to the present day. It should be noted that the Old Testament devotes a single chapter to the subject of creation widely known as the Book of Genesis, but the Qur'an does not do so with the exception that there are several references in various verses throughout the scripture that pay attention to this subject. The New Testament again like the Qur'an does not provide a detailed discussion concerning the merits of creation.
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Curk, Joshua M. "From Jew to Gentile : Jewish converts and conversion to Christianity in medieval England, 1066-1290." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:996a375b-43ac-42fc-a9f5-0edfa519d249.
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The subject of this thesis is Jewish conversion to Christianity in medieval England. The majority of the material covered dates between 1066 and c.1290. The overall argument of the thesis contends that converts to Christianity in England remained essentially Jews. Following a discussion of the relevant secondary literature, which examines the existing discussion of converts and conversion, the principal arguments contained in the chapters of the thesis include the assertion that the increasing restrictiveness of the laws and rules regulating the Jewish community in England created a push factor towards conversion, and that converts to Christianity inhabited a legal grey area, neither under the jurisdiction of the Exchequer of the Jews, nor completely outside of it. Numerous questions are asked (and answered) about the variety of convert experience, in order to argue that there was a distinction between leaving Judaism and joining Christianity. Two convert biographies are presented. The first shows how the liminality that was a part of the conversion process affected the post-conversion life of a convert, and the second shows how a convert might successfully integrate into Christian society. The analysis of converts and conversion focusses on answering a number of questions. These relate to, among other things, pre-conversion relationships with royal family members, the reaction to corrody requests for converts, motives for conversion, forced or coerced conversions, the idea that a convert could be neither Christian nor Jew, converts re-joining Judaism, converts who carried the names of royal functionaries, the domus conversorum, convert instruction, and converting minors. The appendix to the thesis contains a complete catalogue of Jewish converts in medieval England. Among other things noted therein are inter-convert relationships, and extant source material. Each convert also has a biography.
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Shepardson, Christine. "Anti-Judaism and Christian orthodoxy : Ephrem's hymns in fourth-century Syria /." Washington, D.C : The Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9780813215365.
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D'Abreu, Rochelle Cysne Frota 1977. "Subversões teológicas em Espinosa = descobertas da potência filosófica." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280548.
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Orientador: Luiz Benedicto Lacerda OrlandiTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: A filosofia de Espinosa representou importante contraponto à filosofia moderna, ainda que o filósofo holandês tenha acompanhado todo o debate filosófico e científico de seu tempo. Em face dos problemas religiosos e políticos do século XVII, e diante das saídas encontradas pela República Holandesa para os problemas de política internacional e de inclusão dos outros, Espinosa se apresenta como importante alternativa de produção de um novo discurso filosófico, carregado de subversão e libertação política, o que proporcionou, por sua vez, uma emancipação do pensar filosófico tanto das inspirações religiosas quanto da mera redução do saber ontológico ao conhecimento científico. Essa subversão se desdobrará não apenas na crítica religiosa, mas no enraizamento da potência imaginativa que cria uma nova linguagem e novas expressões corpóreas
Abstract: Spinoza's philosophy represented an important counterpoint to the modern philosophy, although the Dutch philosopher followed all the philosophical and scientific debate of his time. In the face of the religious and political problems of the seventeenth century and the solutions to the problems of international politics and inclusion adopted by the Dutch Republic, Spinoza presents himself as an important alternative for the production of a new philosophical discourse, charged with subversion and political liberation, which led, in turn, to an emancipation of the philosophical thought from both religious inspirations and mere reduction of ontological knowledge to scientific knowledge. This subversion will unfold not only in religious criticism, but also in the rooting of the imaginative power that creates a new language and new bodily expressions
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Travassos, Deborah Hornblas. "Judaísmo messiânico no Brasil e seus instrumentos de legitimação: e reinvenção do judaísmo ou uma nova religião?" Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8158/tde-12112014-105209/.
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Essa tese teve como objetivo estudar o judaísmo messiânico no Brasil, abordando seu histórico desde o seu surgimento na Inglaterra até a sua chegada ao Brasil em meados do século XX, além das suas estratégias de legitimação através de seus rituais e da sua interpretação da Bíblia Cristã, particularmente das Cartas de Paulo de Tarso. Foram pesquisadas as diversas sinagogas judaico-messiânicas brasileiras, assim como as suas associações representativas. O questionamento essencial desse trabalho é procurar compreender o lugar do judaísmo messiânico dentro do atual panorama religioso brasileiroThis study aims to investigate the Messianic Judaism in Brazil, covering its history from its emergence in England to its coming to Brazil in the mid-twentieth century, as well as its strategies of legitimacy through its rites and interpretation of the Christian Bible, particularly the letters of Paul of Tarsus. The investigation was conducted in various Brazilian Messianic Jewish Synagogues, including their representative associations. Its essential inquiry seeks to understand the role of Messianic Judaism within the current Brazilian religious scene
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Polokoff, Eric. "Christian Zionisms and their challenges." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Owen, Janet L. "Evaluating theories and stereotypes of the attraction of Judaism to females in interfaith marriage." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=195800.
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Hewitt, Jay Thomas. "In Messiah : Messiah discourse in Ancient Judaism and 'In Christ' language in Paul." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31138.
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Modern interpreters of Paul, confronted with the ubiquitous and enigmatic phrase “in Christ,” have generally ignored “messiah” as a determinative category for explaining the idiom. This is due in part to a scholarly tradition which holds that Paul did not use χριστός with its conventional sense of “messiah.” However, recent scholarship on early messianology, emphasizing the creative interpretation of scripture in the production of messiah texts, has found that Paul’s usage follows the conventions of ancient Jewish messiah language. Drawing upon this revisionist model, I argue that Paul’s use of the phrase ἐν χριστῷ and its variants is explicable in terms of his messianic re-appropriation of authoritative literary traditions. Put differently, Paul’s “in Christ” language is an innovation that nevertheless follows the customs of ancient Jewish messiah speculation. Chapter one, recounting modern treatments of “participationism” and associated language in Paul, illustrates a virtually uniform neglect of messiahship in describing his “in Christ” language. Chapter two reviews the rise of revisionist accounts of ancient Jewish messiah language which eschew the totalizing concept of “the messianic idea” and emphasize instead linguistic conventions common to messiah texts: the creative re-appropriation of scripture, the reuse of messiah syntagms in new literary contexts, and the frequent recourse to a relatively small pool of literary sources to generate conceptions of messiahship. Chapter three, a study of Paul’s messianic interpretation of the promises concerning Abraham’s seed, concludes that the phraseology “in Christ” derives from the Jewish scriptural words “in your seed,” and that the use of the idiom to denote Christ’s instrumentality in God’s actions and the identification of people as believers arises from this tradition. Chapter four, a study of Paul’s messianic interpretation of the victory of the Danielic heavenly man, concludes that Paul’s concept of solidarity with the messiah is based on that between Daniel’s “one like a son of man” and the people of God and is often expressed with the phrase “in Christ.” Finally, chapter five is a two-part catalog of “in Christ” language in Paul’s letters, part one consisting of a syntactical analysis of every instance and part two a conceptual analysis of every instance in light of the findings of chapters three and four. In sum, Paul’s “in Christ” language, like ancient Jewish messiah language generally, is the product of its author’s creative interpretative enterprise to understand and explain his messiah.
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Christiansen, Ellen Juhl. "The covenant and its ritual boundaries in Palestinian Judaism and Pauline Christianity : a study of ecclesiological identity and its markers." Thesis, Durham University, 1993. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5801/.
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The present study is an analysis of covenantal identity and ritual boundaries based on texts ranging from the Old Testament, the Book of Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls to the New Testament. A pattern of interdependence between group identity and boundary marks is traced, and the following thesis is examined: a community's identity is reflected in boundary marks, and ritual boundaries reflect a corporate identity. By using this general principle to interpret biblical and intertestamental material a pattern emerges: when identity is defined in ethnic categories, boundaries are wide, national boundaries, when identity is defined in particularistic categories, such as priestly purity, boundaries are narrow markers of purity. When identity is changed, boundaries change. Having chosen the Old Testament covenant concept as a term for ecclesiological identity the writer demonstrates that covenantal identity changes in Palestinian Judaism not least because it narrows down and builds on the principle of law. As a result of this, ritual boundaries become narrow marks of law observance. When such an interpretation is challenged by Paul covenant is redefined. The Old Testament and intertestamental pattern of interdependence helps to explain that Paul reinterprets covenant and why old ritual boundaries are replaced. Since for Paul identity is grounded in faith in the one Christ, the ecclesiological boundary is no longer an exclusive covenant rite, such as circumcision, rather baptism is, since it serves as a rite of identification with Christ and a mark of possession of the Spirit. This reflects a radical change in ecclesiology. When Christian baptism is the boundary marker that reflects unity with Christ and serves as an inclusive rite; it simultaneously becomes the only symbol for incorporation in the one church.
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Strazicich, John. "Joel's use of Scripture and the Scripture's use of Joel : appropriation and resignification in Second Temple judaism and early christianity /." Leiden : Brill, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40178110m.
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Byron, John. "Slaves of God and Christ : a traditio-historical and exegetical examination of slavery metaphors in Early Judaism and Pauline Christianity." Thesis, Durham University, 2002. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1251/.
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Interpretation of the `slave of Christ' title and its background in Pauline literature has commonly followed two possible avenues: 1) it is an honorific title found in the LXX and borrowed by Paul from the Patriarchs, Moses, David and the Prophets; 2) it is an adoption of imagery from the institution of Greco-Roman slavery illustrating that Paul is in a similar relationship with Christ. Until now scholarship has focused largely on Greco-Roman slavery and its possible influences on Paul. This thesis demonstrates that Paul's metaphor of slavery should be located within the `slave of God' traditions in Early Judaism rather than Greco-Roman slave practices. This is accomplished through an examination of early Jewish Literature that identifies literary traditions surrounding ancient Israel and Early Judaism's self-understanding of themselves as the slaves of God. It is within this context that Paul's slavery language is interpreted. Paul is not borrowing images from Greco-Roman society but is continuing in the traditions of his Jewish heritage and interacting within a broader discussion of slavery in Early Judaism. Christ is the paradigmatic slave of God. To follow Christ in loyal obedience is the equivalent of being his slave and ultimately allows one to fulfill obligations of slavery to God. On the individual level this occurs by imitating Christ's pattern as the slave of God found in Philippians 2.6-11. In the context of the Pauline community it is manifested when members enslave themselves to one another in the same way that Christ enslaved himself to others. Thus, the Slave of Christ title is not an abstract concept adopted from societal images nor is it an honorific title. Slavery to Christ is Paul's understanding of how the Christ event enables believers to fulfill their obligations of obedience as God's slaves.
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Sullivan, Kevin P. "Wrestling with angels : a study of the relationship between angels and humans in late Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9d295b26-9dcf-454a-9862-d00b41594573.
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Much of the extant literature from the kte Second Temple and early Christian periods (200BCE 100CE) contains material about angels. This dissertation is an investigation into the understanding during this period of the relationship between angels and humans. It serves two purposes: (1) it contributes to our understanding of ideas about angels in this period by surveying all of the available evidence and considering evidence that has not previously been studied in detail, and (2) it concludes, contrary to recent studies by Fletcher- Louis and Gieschen, that a clear distinction was maintained between angels and humans, despite occasions when this gap is bridged and humans do become angels. The first chapter introduces the subject, surveys previous research showing the need for the present study and sets out the historical context of the literature to be examined. After these preliminary considerations, the evidence for the distinction between angels and humans is examined in two parts: Part one consists of two chapters that investigate the issue of the similarity of appearance between humans and angels. Chapter two examines the evidence for the portrayal of angels as human beings; conversely, chapter three examines the evidence for the portrayal of humans being as angels. Part two consists of three chapters that investigate the portrayal of close contact between humans and angels. Chapter four examines texts that describe humans and angels living together in communities. Chapter five considers texts that portray angels as recipients of human hospitality, including the issue of whether or not angels ate food. Chapter six considers the human-angel hybrid offspring of Genesis 6 and its interpretations. The final chapter summarises the conclusions that are drawn from the evidence and outlines their implications for current scholarship.
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Pizarro, Wehlen Lucia. "Philosophy, religion and the problem of transcendence : Rosenzweig's and Fackenheim's responses to Hegel." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390962.
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Shepherd, Daniel R. "Healing the olive tree an experiment in Jewish-Christian dialog in metropolitan Detroit /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Chester, Michael Arthur. "Divine pathos and human being : Abraham Joshua Heschel's understanding of what it means to be human in the light of his view of the divine pathos." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2000. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5441/.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), a refugee scholar from Hitler's Europe, became a significant Jewish theologian and a famous social activist in the United States of America. The thesis begins with a brief biography, which puts his work into context, personally, culturally, and historically. There follows an examination of the style and method of presentation of Heschel's thought, asking why it is that some commentators reject him as a serious thinker. He is then located within the tradition and discipline of theology, with an examination of what he calls "depth-theology". Part II begins with an examination of Heschel's major contribution to modem theology-"the divine pathos"-and its place in the impassibility/passibility controversy. Its influence on other (Christian) theologians is demonstrated, together with a response to major criticism (from Eliezer Berkovits). Heschel's theological anthropology is then shown to be entirely dependent upon the concept of the divine pathos, and to have lasting value. Finally, the thesis explores Heschel's commitment to interfaith dialogue (specifically with Christians) made possible by the universal applicability of his insights into the nature of God, humankind, and the relationship between them.
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O'Donnell, Emma K. "The Liturgical Transformation of Time: Memory and Eschatological Anticipation in Christian and Jewish Liturgy." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103614.
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Thesis advisor: John F. BaldovinThis dissertation examines the interaction of communal religious memory and eschatological anticipation within Jewish and Christian liturgical performance, and charts the ways that Jewish and Christian liturgical practices inform the experience of time. It proposes that the liturgical conjunction of the historical sense of time, which encompasses notions of the past, present, and future, and the observance of the cyclical passing of hours creates a unique experience of time. This liturgical experience of time arises through ritual meditation on the religiously envisioned past and future, and is marked by a perceived interpenetration of time. Judaism and Christianity each hold distinct temporal visions that inform the way the past, present, and future are understood. In each tradition, the narrative of the past informs the understanding of the present, and indicates a shape for the future. Inversely, the contours of the envisioned eschatological future inform the perception of the present, and influence the way that the past is remembered. This study argues that the liturgical performance of the temporal orientations of each tradition engenders a transformed experience of time. It demonstrates how the ritual engagement of memory and anticipation contribute to a re-shaping of the experience of time, allowing the liturgical community to experience the past and future as operative in the present. Driven by the conviction that a religiously and ritually shaped vision of time is a significant point of convergence in Jewish and Christian religious experience, yet largely overlooked in scholarship to date, this study addresses both Jewish and Christian contexts. In the study of the Christian context, it focuses on the Liturgy of the Hours, the celebration of which engages communal memory and anticipation within the setting of liturgical services that regularly punctuate the hours of day and night. The study of the Jewish context addresses a wider range of liturgies, focusing on the daily services as well as on highly memorial and eschatological holidays such as Passover and Shabbat, with attention to how each contributes to a transformed experience of time. To address the elusive phenomenon of ritual experience, this study explores the perception of time from a phenomenological perspective, employing an interdisciplinary methodology that utilizes ritual and performance theories, aesthetics, and hermeneutics, in conversation with contemporary Jewish and Christian liturgical thought. Motivated by the notion that the experience of time is integral to faith, this project proposes that the concept of a liturgically transformed experience of time sheds light on essential aspects of Jewish and Christian religious experience. The experience of time cannot be extricated from subjectivity, and this quality is precisely what grants its study the capacity to address some of the most interior aspects of faith. This study proposes, furthermore, that the intimacy of the experience of time grants it the particular gift of communicating across the boundaries of religious traditions, subtly transgressing obstacles to interreligious understanding
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Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Patmore, Hector M. "Adam, Satan, and the King of Tyre : the reception of Ezekiel 28:11-19 in Judaism and Christianity in late antiquity." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2381/.
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The lament over the King of Tyre in Ezekiel 28:11-19 has presented scholars with a great many difficulties. This thesis is a fresh attempt to make sense of this extremely complex text through a detailed reassessment of the texts early transmission history and by analysing its reception among Jewish and Christian communities in Late Antiquity, a topic which has not previously been examined in full. The thesis re-examines the relationship between the Hebrew and Greek witnesses to Ezekiel in light of the manuscript data from Masada and Qumran. I conclude that the historical precedence of neither Hebrew nor Greek can be established and propose that two distinct recensions must have been in circulation concurrently. I then critically examine the Masoretic accentuation and vocalization of the Hebrew text as an interpretative layer and explore the possibilities for alternative meanings presented by a Gonsõnantal text. I then trace the evolution of the text in the Greek versions, asking how the Greek versions function as both translation and interpretation. The thesis then examines more explicitly interpretative material, beginning with the Targum and moving onto the classical rabbinic literature. The final chapter examines the contrasting interpretations of the early Church Fathers, particularly Origen and Jerome who interact polemically with Jewish traditions. In these different sources the central figure of the lament is variously understood to be a 'god' (consonantal Hebrew), the Israelite High Priest (Greek versions), a political exemplar (Targum), a mythical cherub (pointed Masoretic Hebrew), Adam or Hiram (Rabbis), and Satan (Church Fathers).Throughout I seek to ask not only how each community understood the text, but also why they understood it m that particular way. I seek to bring to light the methods of reading used, the results these produced, and the motivations underlying both of these. I conclude by making some preliminary suggestions as to how the historical study of reception history might inform contemporary discussions of hermeneutics.
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Nassar, Issam R. Tavakoli-Targhi Mohamad. "Imagining Jerusalem a study in colonial and religious imagination /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9804934.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1997.Title from title page screen, viewed June 13, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (chair), John B. Freed, Lawrence W. McBride, Anne M. Rosenthal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-215) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Piras, Marianna. "La tipologia epigrafica delle iscrizioni ebraiche e cristiane della Sardegna e della Penisola iberica." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/458875.
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Il lavoro di ricerca si propone di tracciare un breve parallelo tra l'epigrafia ebraica e l'epigrafia cristiana in due aree dell'orbis romano legate tra di loro. La storia dell'epigrafia ha dimostrato come tendenze e mode si riflettessero anche nelle iscrizioni, seppure in ambiti diversi. Anche nelle iscrizioni ebraiche e cristiane questi modelli si riflettono nelle diverse tipologie monumentali. Partendo dalla storia, dall'analisi delle fonti letterarie e materiali, si è cercato di capire come e quali entità avessero le comunità ebraiche e come la successiva cristianizzazione di questi territori abbia influito nei loro rapporti e nella loro produzione epigrafica.The research aims to trace a short parallel between Jewish and Christian epigraphy in two areas of Roman orbis linked to each other. The history of epigraphy has shown how trends and ways are reflected in the inscriptions, although in different domains. Even in Jewish and Christian inscriptions these models are reflected in the various monumental types. From the history, from the analysis of literary and material sources, we tried to understand how and what entities the Jewish communities had and how the subsequent Christianization of these territories influenced their relationships and their epigraphic production.
La investigación tiene como objetivo dar un breve paralelo entre la epigrafía epigrafía judía y cristiana en dos áreas romanas relacionadas entre ellas. La historia de la epigrafía ha demostrado que las tendencias y las modas se reflejaron también en las inscripciones, aunque en diferentes esferas. Incluso en las inscripciones judías y cristianas estos modelos se reflejan en diferentes tipologías monumentales. A partir de la historia, del análisis de las fuentes y de los materiales literarios, trataba de entender cómo y qué entidad han tenido las comunidades judías y cómo la posterior cristianización de estos territorios ha afectado a su relación y su producción epigráfica.
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Pettem, Michael. "Matthew : Jewish Christian or gentile Christian?" Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74296.
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This dissertation addresses the problem of whether the Gospel of Matthew reflects a Jewish Christian or gentile Christian stance within the early church. A study of the principal theories of the evolution of the early church provides the background against which the terms "Jewish Christian" and "gentile Christian" may be understood. The dissertation examines the bases on which Matthew has been classified as either Jewish Christian or gentile Christian. This previous work on Matthew is found to be unsatisfactory because of the lack of adequate criteria for classifying Matthew. A study of Acts and the letters of Paul reveals that the practice or rejection of Jewish dietary purity was a cause of division in the early church, and thus constitutes a suitable criterion for distinguishing between Jewish and gentile Christianity. Examination of Mt 15:1-20 shows that Matthew does not accept Jewish dietary purity as a part of God's will. Matthew thus reflects a gentile Christian position.
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Souza, Maria Isabel Brito de [UNESP]. "Gênese do cristianismo: a relação entre judeus e gentios no discurso de Paulo em meados do I século d.C." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93396.
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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo a análise e avaliação do discurso de Paulo em Antioquia, em meados do I século d.C., com enfoque no texto de 2,11-14 da Carta aos Gálatas, onde ele discute com os líderes da Igreja a relação entre judeus e gentios, os limites da adoção dos rituais da Torá. O posicionamento de Paulo é entendido no contexto da cultura helenística e dos ideais do império Romano e o judaísmo é discutido a partir de suas múltiplas e complexas facetas e com toda a dinâmica cultural, social, econômica e religiosa em que se insere no período.
This research aims at the analysis and evaluation of speech of Paul in Antioquia, in mid of I century BC, with focus in the text 2,11-14 in the Letter to the Galatians, where he discusses with the others leaders of the Church the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, the limits of the adoption of the rites of the Torah. The position of Paul is understood in the context of Hellenistic culture and the ideals of the Roman Empire and the Judaism is discusses from its multiple and complex facets and with the dynamic cultural, social, economic and religious which includes the period.
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Pyle, Rhonda. "Bad Blood: Impurity and Danger in the Early Modern Spanish Mentality." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30504/.
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The current work is an intellectual history of how blood permeated early modern Spaniards' conceptions of morality and purity. This paper examines Spanish intellectuals' references to blood in their medical, theological, demonological, and historical works. Through these excerpts, this thesis demonstrates how this language of blood played a role in buttressing the church's conception of good morals. This, in turn, will show that blood was used as a way to persecute Jews and Muslims, and ultimately define the early modern Spanish identity.
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Spjut, Petter. "Breaking the Bonds of Oblivion : An Analysis of the Role of Fate and Providence in the Apocryphon of John." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionshistoria, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226468.
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This essay aims to investigate the role of fate in the Apocryphon of John – an issue which, with a few exceptions, has been surprisingly overlooked by modern scholarship. In the few modern publications available on the subject, the concept of fate has previously solely been examined in the light of the Greek Philosophical schools, often neglecting texts from a Jewish-Hellenistic context. Here it is argued that the depiction of fate in the Apocryphon of John, as well as the dualism between Pronoia – the providence of god – and its negative counterpart, the imitating spirit, is closely related to Jewish speculations about external influence and free will in literature such as the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Community Rule from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Furthermore, it is argued that the author – much like Philo of Alexandria - presents Pronoia – the providence of god - as an extension of God, a concept which preserves his transcendence and at the same time allows him to intervene in earthly activities. Similarly, the imitating spirit, which is also presented as identical to fate, works as an extension of the demiurge. As a result of this reading of the text, the dualism between God’s providential activities carried out by Pronoia and the influence of fate over mankind, carried out by the imitating spirit, becomes more evident and radical. It has recently been argued that the discourse of enslavement under fate only was applied to “the other” and that it was used primarily to draw boundary demarcations between the own group and the ones outside it. In this essay, I go against this hypothesis and suggest that the threat of enslavement under fate primarily appears in conjunction with paraenetic discourse and is used to exhort the followers to emulate a certain behavior.
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Izidoro, José Luiz. "FRONTEIRAS E IDENTIDADES FLUIDAS NO CRISTIANISMO DA GALÁCIA." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2010. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/562.
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The biblical texts are the result of a historical-literary process in which the societies and cultures are present through the symbolic constructions and representations, as well as through languages and discourses. In this way, for biblical research, the studies of the source of primitive Christianity become indispensable. These studies can be carried out by means of historic-anthropological concepts that facilitate the understanding of the formation process of identities in the Jewish-Hellenistic context of primitive Christianity. In the perspective of identity analysis, Gl 3,26-29 reflects and suggests the interaction and approximation between ethnic groups and socio-cultural groups, provided some aspects are observed, such as: their differences and their unity in Christ Jesus; and the recognition of the identities emerging from the social, ethnic and geographical boundaries. From a theological and anthropological point of view, therefore, we get close to the ethnic, socio-cultural and religious conceptual components that the text suggests, as well as social and gender representation that emerge from the interaction between the Christian groups in the first century. Therefore, for the Pauline Christianity of Galatians, the concept of Judaism, in relation to Hellenism did not constitute a fixed , stagnated entity in opposition to the latter. Rather than this, they are in a continuous movement of interaction between boundaries, and, in their diversity and differences they make it possible to understand the emergence of the fluid identities in formation.
Os textos bíblicos são o resultado de um processo histórico-literário no qual as sociedades e as culturas se fazem presentes pelas construções e representações simbólicas, pelas linguagens e pelos discursos. Desse modo, na pesquisa bíblica torna-se imprescindível o estudo das fontes do cristianismo primitivo por meio de conceitos histórico-antropológicos que possibilitem compreender o processo de formação de identidades no contexto judaicohelênico do cristianismo primitivo. Na perspectiva de análise das identidades, Gl 3,26-29 reflete e sugere a interação e a aproximação entre os grupos étnicos e socioculturais, observadas as diferenças e a unidade em Cristo Jesus; e o reconhecimento das identidades a partir da dinâmica das fronteiras sociais, étnicas e geográficas. Dos pontos de vista teológico e antropológico, aproximamo-nos dos componentes conceituais étnicos, socioculturais e religiosos que o texto sugere, bem como das representações sociais e de gênero que emergem da interação entre os grupos cristãos ainda no século I. Portanto, para o cristianismo paulino da Galácia, a concepção do judaísmo, em sua relação com o helenismo, não constitui uma entidade fixa, estagnada, em simples oposição a este; eles estão em contínuo movimento de interação entre as fronteiras e, em sua diversidade e diferenças, possibilitam compreender o emergir das identidades fluidas em formação.