The New Testament in its Ritual WorldRoutledge, 2008 M03 3 - 160 páginas What was life like among the first Christians? For the last thirty years, scholars have explored the historical and social contexts of the New Testament in order to sharpen their understanding of the text itself. This interest has led scholars to focus more and more on the social features of early Christian communities and less on their theologies or doctrines. Scholars are keen to understand what these communities were like, but the ritual life of early Christians remains largely unexplored. Studies of baptism and eucharist do exist, but they are very traditional, showing little awareness of the ritual world, let alone the broader social environment, in which Christians found themselves. Such studies make little or no use of the social sciences, Roman social history, or the archaeological record. This book argues that ritual was central to, and definitive for, early Christian life (as it is for all social orders), and explores the New Testament through a ritual lens. By grounding the exploration in ritual theory, Greco-Roman ritual life, and the material record of the ancient Mediterranean, it offers new and insightful perspectives on early Christian communities and their cultural environment. In doing justice to a central but slighted aspect of community life, it outlines an alternative approach to the New Testament, one that reveals what the lives of the first Christians were actually like. |
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... Biblical Association Visiting Professor to the Pontifical Biblical Institutein Rome. The New Testament in its Ritual World Richard E. DeMaris.
... Biblical Association for enabling meto make a foray into theliterature of the social sciences, especiallyritual theory. I amalso indebted toTimothyE. Gregory, director ofthe Ohio State University Excavations atIsthmia,Greece, andto many ...
... Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association provided the opportunityto present severalpapers thathave been revised and incorporated in this book. Aneven better venue has beenthe Context Group, a circle of biblicalscholars ...
... Biblical Theology Bulletin,volume 29(1999). The article is used with permission. Likewise, part of Chapter 2 comes from “Cults and the Imperial Cult in Early Roman Corinth: Literary VersusMaterial Record,” achapter in Zwischen den ...
... Biblical Literature, volume 114 (1995), as “Corinthian Religion and Baptism for the Dead(1 Corinthians 15: 29): Insights from Archaeology and Anthropology.” The SocietyofBiblical Literature letme know thatthat Iholdcopyright on this ...