Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The Resurrected Body in Luke-Acts: The Significance of Space 19
5. Ancient Notions of Transferal and Apotheosis in Relation to the Empty Tomb Story in Mark 41
6. “In your midst as a child” – “In the form of an old man” Images of Aging and Immortality in Ancient Christianity 59
7. Genealogies of the Self: Materiality, Personal Identity, and the Body in Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians 83
8. “With What Kind of Body Will They Come?” Metamorphosis and the Concept of Change: From Platonic Thinking to Paul´s Notion of the Resurrection of the Dead 109
9. Complete and Incomplete Transformation in Paul – a Philosophical Reading of Paul on Body and Spirit 123
10. “Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God:” The Transformation of the Flesh in the Early Christian Debates Concerning Resurrection 147
11. Valentinian Ideas About Salvation as Transformation 169
12. “These are the Symbols and Likenesses of the Resurrection”: Conceptualizations of Death and Transformation in the Treatise on the Resurrection (NHC I,4) 187
13. Metamorphosis and Mind Cognitive Explorations of the Grotesque in Early Christian Literature 207
14. Male Women Martyrs: The Function of Gender-Transformation Language in Early Christian Martyrdom Accounts 231
15. Imagining Human Transformation in the Context of Invisible Powers: Instrumental Agency in Second-Century Treatments of Conversion 249
16. “As Already Translated to the Kingdom While Still in the Body” The Transformation of the Ascetic in Early Egyptian Monasticism 271
17. The Angelic Life 291
18. Recognizing the Righteous Remnant? Resurrection, Recognition and Eschatological Reversals in 2 Baruch 47-52 311
19. Backmatter 337