Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/2222582x.2022.2041453
C. Stenschke
The essays in this collection have their origin in the 7th International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford in 2015. They are devoted to the wider framework of research on the topic of Christian rivalry in terms of competition and conflict and particular instances of such rivalry. The focus is on religious rivalry within late ancient Christianity and beyond and between Christians and others, both in the religious and the political sphere (Preface).
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/2222582x.2022.2041691
C. Stenschke
unterschiedliche Aspekte der Wahrnehmung und Darstellung menschlicher “Gegenspieler” im Spiegel der antiken jüdischen, neutestamentlichen und sonstigen frühchristlichen Literatur in den Blick genommen. Von besonderem Interesse waren dabei zum einen die Fragen, welche Gruppen und Gestalten aus der Sicht der jeweiligen Autoren explizit oder implizit als Konkurrenten, Gegner, Abweichler oder Irrlehrer bezeichnet wurden, wo die jeweiligen Konfliktlinien innerhalb oder außerhalb der eigenen sozialen, kulturellen oder religiösen Gemeinschaft verliefen, und welche Wahrnehmungen und Deutungen geschichtlicher Vorgänge und Entwicklungen hiermit verbunden waren. Zum anderen galt ein besonderes Augenmerk den Fragen, wie die literarische Darstellung der Antagonisten und Konflikte jeweils in Szene gesetzt wurde und in welcher Weise theologisch motivierte Apologetik und Abgrenzungsbestrebungen die Konturen sowohl der “Gegenspieler” als auch der gegen sie gerichteten Argumentation und Polemik bestimmten. (v)
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Pub Date : 2022-02-25DOI: 10.1080/2222582x.2021.1983449
Mark Wilson
Abstract The interrelationship between text and material culture is an ongoing discussion in academic studies. While early Christianity and classical archaeology often intersect in their respective fields of inquiry, they are often unaware of discussions and discoveries in each other’s discipline. This article discusses a biblical figure named Philip whose legacy is found in texts and realia related to the Phrygian city of Hierapolis in western Asia Minor. Biblical scholars have conducted a vigorous discussion about the identity of this Philip based on early Christian texts. Italian archaeologists have recently discovered a tomb and basilica in Hierapolis that they have associated with the apostle Philip. The discussion seeks to put these disciplines in dialogue by collocating the relevant texts and realia regarding this important biblical figure. The first section explores the prominence of two Philips in early Christian literature—the disciple/apostle Philip, particularly in the Gospel of John, and the deacon/evangelist Philip, particularly in Acts. Hierapolis was a major “pagan” pilgrimage destination with its sanctuaries of the Apollo temple and the Ploutonion. These were destroyed in Late Antiquity and replaced by a martyrium and basilica associated with a martyrdom tradition related to Philip. This monumentalisation around his tomb made Hierapolis an important Christian pilgrimage destination in Asia along with Ephesus.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1080/2222582X.2022.2028174
John-Christian Eurell
Abstract The relationship between Paul and the Jesus tradition is a central issue in New Testament scholarship. Although it is customary to look for Gospel traditions in the Pauline epistles, an opposite approach would better fit the chronology of the sources. It is more probable that the evangelists were influenced by Paul than the other way around. For this reason, a re-evaluation of the development of the Jesus tradition from Jesus, via Paul, and to the Gospels, is necessary. This essay examines the possibility of viewing Paul as a source of the Gospels.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-15DOI: 10.1080/2222582X.2021.2001667
Christopher Hansen
Abstract In recent years a number of scholars (such as Richard Carrier and Robert Price) have published arguments in favour of a new model of the origination of Christianity from a mythological Jesus. Part of their argumentation has been to make the case for the concept of a pre-Christian Jesus who was worshiped, or a part of Judaism before Christianity ever arose. This article seeks to provide a new analysis of this topic, since there has been almost no academic literature published in response to the pre-Christian Jesus thesis in several decades. This article largely concludes that the concept, while interesting, is not convincing and would require far more substantial evidence to be considered a better alternative to historicist conceptions of early Christianity’s development.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2222582X.2021.1931902
Andrew T. Crislip
Abstract Pain has been a topic of sustained study in early Christian history, not least in its role in the construction of a distinctive Christian self and identity. This article addresses the significance of pain in early Christian identity by reframing pain as an emotion and an affective practice, an approach that reflects scholarly re-evaluations of pain in both the neuroscience of emotion and the history of emotions. The essay first addresses pain's function as an emotion, as well as the emotional contours of pain relief. It then traces the role of pain as a marker of identity in Christian literature, including Paul, the Gospel of John, early homiletic and moral exhortations, and martyr literature. Early Christian authors differ in significant ways among themselves on the meaning of pain, but they share a general perspective that the conceptualisation and experience of pain, as part of an overall discourse of passions and emotions, mark Christian identity and set Christians apart from others. Early Christian sources provide an extraordinary and relatively unrecognised resource for observing the development and change of emotional communities, as Christians understood themselves to feel different from others, to feel pain differently.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2222582X.2021.1988862
E. Walsh
Abstract The late antique Syriac poet, Jacob of Serugh (451–521CE), composed narrative poems or mēmrē on a variety of biblical stories featuring miraculous healings. This essay approaches the subject of pain through examining two of these works: Homily 169 about the woman with a bent spine from the Gospel of Luke (13:10–17) and Homily 170 about the woman with an uncontrolled flow of blood found in the Gospel of Mark (5:25–34) and recounted in Matthew 9:20– 22 and Luke 8:43–48. Composed for liturgical performance, Jacob's poems feature expanded descriptions of the women's bodies and imagined speeches. Through his crafted persona as poetic narrator, Jacob rendered the anomalous female body as a symbol for the sinful human condition, reflecting larger interpretative traditions surrounding these biblical stories. In addition to this exegetical approach, Jacob's poetic form allowed him to dramatise these encounters with Jesus through embellished, first-person speeches. Jacob centres the listener's attention on the physical pain, emotional distress, and the social implications of the bodily conditions of the biblical characters. As a result, his poetry resists the erasure of the female body through the closure of symbolic readings. He embedded his meditations on pain and the social consequences of physical impairment within an overarching anti-Jewish polemic. These complex literary representations project ideals of faithful suffering and Christian identity that were formative for the Syriac Christian communities who heard and preserved Jacob's writings.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2222582X.2022.2081588
C. L. de Wet
Abstract This response engages with several essays in a special issue of Journal of Early Christian History on the theme of contextualising pain and remedy in early Judaism and Christianity. The response brings the ancient case studies into a brief dialogue with a modern anthropological study on paediatric pain by Mara Buchbinder. In so doing, the study shows how ancient readings and analyses of pain may benefit and benefit from similar modern explorations. The importance of a multidisciplinary approach to pain is emphasised, with attention given to pain as an emotion, the social relationality of pain, competing cultures of pain, and pain as a gendered discourse.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2222582X.2021.2014921
B. Ihssen
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