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Abstract In the twenty-five years since Richard Ascough’s article, “Translocal Relationships among Voluntary Associations and Early Christianity,” scholarship has largely swung the pendulum away from viewing the translocality of early-Christ groups as an anomaly and using that “uniqueness” as justification for denying the heuristic value of Greco-Roman associations for understanding Christ-groups. A side-effect of this shift, however, has been that scholars often only compare Greco-Roman associations and Christ-groups on the basis of local instantiations. This article, in contrast, recovers a focus on the translocal relationships between associations, examining various motivations for translocal relationships between voluntary associations and showing the heuristic payoff for comparing translocal voluntary associations with early Christ-groups. Additionally, the article concludes that the comparison should work in both directions. That is, the nature of the evidence of the translocality of early Christ-groups actually allows these groups to function as an important heuristic for translocal Greco-Roman associations.
自理查德·阿斯库夫(Richard Ascough)发表《自愿社团与早期基督教的跨地域关系》(Translocal Relationships among Voluntary Associations and Early Christianity)这篇文章以来的25年里,学术界在很大程度上改变了观点,不再把早期基督团体的跨地域视为一种反常现象,而是用这种“独特性”作为理由,否认希腊-罗马社团对理解基督团体的启发式价值。然而,这种转变的一个副作用是,学者们往往只在当地实例的基础上比较希腊罗马协会和基督团体。相比之下,本文恢复了对社团之间跨地方关系的关注,研究了自愿社团之间跨地方关系的各种动机,并展示了将跨地方自愿社团与早期基督团体进行比较的启发式回报。此外,文章的结论是,比较应该是双向的。也就是说,早期基督群体跨地域的证据的本质,实际上允许这些群体作为跨地域希腊罗马联系的重要启发式。
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A highly reputed journal published since 1900, the ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT is an international journal for the exegesis of the New Testament and knowledge of the early church (patristics). Appearing annually in two issues of 150 pages each plus supplements, it features original contributions in German, English, and French which have been written by well-known scholars worldwide. By accepting only high quality research papers which advance scholarship, the editors seek to retain the recognizably high niveau of the journal.