Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Studies - History & Culture

How can one reconcile the political nature of Jesus with his disinclination to power? Moore's argument comes in three stages. Part one answers the question 'Was Jesus Political?' by examining Jesus' words and actions that have political import. Part two addresses the issue 'How was Jesus Political?' It concentrates on Mark 10:32-45 as a real articulation of Jesus' political praxis that is consistent throughout Jesus' ministry and teaching. Part three, 'Why did Jesus not openly announce his political role?' examines Jesus' treatment of the Jewish kings of the past, particularly why Jesus,...

Daniel Lynwood Smith orients readers of the New Testament to its historical and cultural settings, introducing the cast of characters, and illuminating key concepts by exploring their use in ancient texts. Smith includes quotations from many primary sources including Josephus, Tacitus, the Qumran Community, Pliny the Younger, and other carefully chosen texts from lesser-known ancient sources. These texts are all carefully woven together with commentary, to provide a narrative framework for the material and guide students through the text. A glossary of complex terms is provided, to make...

The journey from religion to relationship is a journey of self-discovery. No one need have a "learned one" or "guru" that becomes one's interpreter of truth. However, from time to time, we need input to help us shine the light of truth on our path so we can continue the personal journey leading closer to, and to know more fully, the Creator of all things.

This book is designed to point each of us to the essential truths that transcend religious dogma and, if properly understood, will help each reader refocus their own thinking towards what is important to them and their spiritual...

This workbook accompanies Mark L. Strauss's Four Portraits, One Jesus. Following the textbook's structure, it offers readings from the Gospels, activities, and exercises designed to support the students' learning experience and enhance their comprehension of what can be known from the Gospels about the central defining subject of Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth.

Four Portraits, One Jesus is a thorough yet accessible introduction to the four biblical Gospels and their subject, the life and person of Jesus. Like different artists rendering the same subject using...

Long before the words of the Old Testament were written, many of their roots existed in the form of ancient myth-the religious beliefs and practices of cultures in Sumeria and Egypt. That raises an interesting question: does the value of religion lie in its infallibility, or in the higher values it instills in its followers?

In his book, "Something Borrowed, Something True," the geographer Robert Mayfield explores the origins of modern Judeo-Christian beliefs, and the cultural evolution that helped create those religions. Readers will learn of his conclusions concerning the origin of...

Social memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present because it is a relationship which finds expression in memorial acts such as storytelling and text-production.

This relationship has emerged as a dialectic in which "past" and "present" are mutually constitutive and implicating. The resultant complication directly affects the procedures and products of "historical Jesus" research, which depends particularly on the assumption that we can cleanly separate "authentic" from "inauthentic" traditions.

In Structuring Early Christian Memory Rafael...