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Religious Propaganda and Missionary Competition in the New Testament World
Essays Honoring Dieter Georgi
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1994
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Religious Propaganda is a pivotal concept for the Hellenistic and Roman epochs in the History of Religions. The term refers to the various competing religious and philosophical movements and currents during those periods.
Renowned scholars (H. Attridge, K. Baltzer, J. Collins, A. Dewey, H. Koester, A.T. Kraabel, D. Lührmann, J. Robinson, W. Schottroff, E. Schüssler Fiorenza, A. Yarbro Collins and others) interpret Pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources with a view toward elucidating the confrontation of Jewish and Christian groups with their respective social, economic, religious, and political contexts. The authors seek to demonstrate the significance of missionary and propagandistic themes as well as strategies for the self-understanding of Jews and Christians at the turn of the eras.
The articles, 25 in all, draw upon the broad expanse of scholarly work in the History of Religions pertaining to this period: the authors discuss methodology and the state of research, and they forge ahead in the exploration of the intertestamental and New Testament writings.
Renowned scholars (H. Attridge, K. Baltzer, J. Collins, A. Dewey, H. Koester, A.T. Kraabel, D. Lührmann, J. Robinson, W. Schottroff, E. Schüssler Fiorenza, A. Yarbro Collins and others) interpret Pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources with a view toward elucidating the confrontation of Jewish and Christian groups with their respective social, economic, religious, and political contexts. The authors seek to demonstrate the significance of missionary and propagandistic themes as well as strategies for the self-understanding of Jews and Christians at the turn of the eras.
The articles, 25 in all, draw upon the broad expanse of scholarly work in the History of Religions pertaining to this period: the authors discuss methodology and the state of research, and they forge ahead in the exploration of the intertestamental and New Testament writings.
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Lukas Bormann Ph.D. (1993) in Theology, lectures New Testament at the University of Frankfurt.
Kelly Del Tredici, Ph.D. (1992) in Classical Philology, Fordham University; M.Div. (1989) Harvard University.
Angela Standhartinger, 1. Theol. Examen (1990), Assistant at the Martin-Buber-Stiftungsgastprofessur, Universität Frankfurt.
Kelly Del Tredici, Ph.D. (1992) in Classical Philology, Fordham University; M.Div. (1989) Harvard University.
Angela Standhartinger, 1. Theol. Examen (1990), Assistant at the Martin-Buber-Stiftungsgastprofessur, Universität Frankfurt.
Reviews
'Anyone interested in the history of religions for the late Hellenistic era will welcome this volume.’
Fred W. Burnett, Religious Studies Review, 1995.
'It certainly is a most representative tribute to a scholar who has himself stimulated New Testament research in this respect, as can be seen from the repeated references to his publications.'
J. Verheyden, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses
'Rarely does a Festschrift follow the interest of the individual it honors more closely than this collection of essays in honour of Dieter Georgi.'
AR, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1995.
Fred W. Burnett, Religious Studies Review, 1995.
'It certainly is a most representative tribute to a scholar who has himself stimulated New Testament research in this respect, as can be seen from the repeated references to his publications.'
J. Verheyden, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses
'Rarely does a Festschrift follow the interest of the individual it honors more closely than this collection of essays in honour of Dieter Georgi.'
AR, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1995.
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All those of graduate level and above interested in New Testament, non-canonical writings, Ancient Judaism, the History of Religion, the History of Early Christianity, as well as historians, theologians and other specialists in Antiquity.
