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Jesús y sus primeros discípulos
Recopilación de trabajos sobre los comienzos del cristianismo en Palestina. Los dos primeros capítulos estudian la transmisión de los recuerdos sobre Jesús en la tradición oral y en el Documento Q. Otros tres están dedicados a algunos aspectos centrales del ministerio público de Jesús (su actitud filial, sus exorcismos y sus sanaciones). Los cuatro restantes, en fin, indagan sobre los primeros grupos de discípulos que continuaron el proyecto iniciado por Jesús en Galilea y Judea. El estudio de estos primeros grupos de discípulos reviste una especial dificultad, porque es muy poco lo que las fuentes nos dicen directamente acerca de ellos, pero esta etapa de los comienzos del cristi...
The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels
Contributions by internationally known scholars from the United States, Germany, Scotland, Spain, and Canada move beyond many of the impasses in historical Jesus research. Includes essays using social sciences, social history, and traditional historical methods.
Christianity in Latin America
From the arrival of the conquistadores in the fifteenth century to the spread of the Pentecostal movement today, Christianity has moulded, coerced, refashioned, and enriched Latin America. Likewise, Christianity has been changed, criticized, and renewed as it crossed the Atlantic. These changes now affect its practice and understanding, not only in South and Central America and the Caribbean, but also - through immigration and global communication - around the world. Focusing on this mutually constitutive relationship, Christianity in Latin America presents the important encounters between people, ideas, and events of this large, heterogeneous subject. In doing so, it takes readers on a fascinating journey of explorers, missionaries, farmers, mystics, charlatans, evangelists, dictators, and martyrs. This book offers an accessible and engaging review of the history of Christianity in Latin America with a widely ecumenical focus to foster understanding of the various forces shaping both Christianity and the region.
Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible
Fourteen members of The Context Group honor Bruce J. Malina and his scholarship in this volume by following his consistent example of developing or using explicit social scientific models to interpret documents from the ancient Mediterranean world. Ordinary features of that cultural world such as gossip, reciprocity, a pervasive military presence, the power of women, and becoming a follower of Jesus stand out with greater clarity in the Bible when a reader understands the cultural matrix in which such social dynamics function. These essays reflect The Context Group’s more than twenty years of collaborative experience in researching the cultural context of the Bible. New insights are built on the solidly established foundations of their earlier cross-cultural studies. Readers will find the individual essays enlightening and challenging. Taken as a whole they form a valuable resource and a stimulating and helpful aid to further study.
Christianity at the Crossroads
Christianity in the twenty-first century is a global phenomenon. But in the second century, its future was not at all certain. Michael Kruger's introductory survey examines how Christianity took root in the second century, how it battled to stay true to the vision of the apostles, and how it developed in ways that would shape both the church and Western culture over the next two thousand years.
'While the Bridegroom is with Them'
Interpreters of Matthew's Parable of the Wedding Feast (22.1-14) typically associate the 'king' with God and then justify his violent attacks against city and guests; interpreters of the Parable of the Ten Virgins (25.1-13) typically associate the 'bridegroom' with Jesus and then justify his extreme rejection of the 'foolish virgins.' Questioning such allegorical interpretations, this study first details how Hebrew, Greek, and Roman texts depict - without requiring allegorical understandings - numerous bridegrooms associated not only with joy but also with violence and death. Second, this project appeals to the disruptive nature of parables, the feminist technique of resisting reading, and the Matthean Jesus's own ethical instructions to argue that in the parables, those who resist violent rulers and uncaring bridegrooms are the ones worthy of the Kingdom. The study then shows how the Matthean Jesus - the brideless, celibate bridegroom -- creates a fictive family by disrupting biological and marital ties, redefining masculinity, and undermining the desirability of marriage and procreation. JSNTS 292
Así empezó el cristianismo
Para comprender el surgimiento del cristianismo, hay que atender a numerosos factores que intervinieron en un proceso complejo y conflictivo. En este libro se analizan críticamente textos de distinta naturaleza. Se recurre también a categorías sociológicas, porque de un proceso social se trata; y a categorías antropológicas, porque hay que dialogar con culturas diversas. Además hay que considerar aspectos ideológicos y teológicos, porque el cristianismo expresaba la experiencia religiosa de Jesús interpretada por grupos de sus discípulos de muy diferente condición. Esta obra colectiva afronta los orígenes del cristianismo de forma crítica, interdisciplinar y con la convicción de que una rigurosa reconstrucción de sus inicios es un poderoso estímulo para que el cristianismo de nuestros días se libere de lastres pesados, encare exigencias ineludibles y descubra nuevas posibilidades.
The Jesus Quest
Ben Witherington III offers a comprehensive assessment of what scholars such as John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, Burton Mack and the Jesus Seminar are really saying about Jesus.
The Gospel of Mark in Context
The short story that we now know as the Gospel according to Mark was written in Greek twenty centuries ago in the context of an agrarian society that had been developing its own characteristics in the circum-Mediterranean region. Mark's account presupposes the values, institutions, and relationships of the culture in which Jesus and his first followers lived. Modern readers of the Gospels, however, especially those born and raised in the North Atlantic postindustrial societies, have other values and institutions, and relate to each other according to other cultural codes. This temporal and cultural distance between the ancient texts and their present-day readers makes necessary an exegetical effort whose purpose is to recover, as far as possible, the reading scenarios presupposed by these texts. In order to reconstruct these scenarios, exegesis has turned in recent years to the social sciences, whose models permit us to imagine and describe the situations presupposed by these ancient texts. This book aims to show how the use of these scenarios elaborated with the help of the social sciences can contribute to a more considered and respectful reading of Mark's story.
