From difference to deviance : rivalry and enmity in earliest Christianity / edited by Daniel A. Smith, Joseph Verheyden.
| Author/creator | Leuven Centre for the Study of the Gospels |
| Other author | Smith, Daniel A. 1963- editor. |
| Other author | Verheyden, Joseph, 1957- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Leuven : Peeters, 2024. |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | xiv, 372 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium ; Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium ; 339. ^A1099318 |
| Contents | Introduction / Daniel A. Smith, Joseph Verheyden -- Rebel with a cause : Jesus's deviant behavior as the new normal in Mark's Gospel / Sandra Huebenthal -- Rivalry and enmity in Q / Sara Parks -- Overcoming opponents : blaming and defeating Jewish leaders in the Gospel of Matthew / Paul Foster -- Luke-Acts, the demons, and the Jews : a gender analysis / Shelly Matthews -- Reading John 8 without polemic / Susan E. Hylen -- John's competition with the synoptics / Blake Wassell -- Dualism and difference in apocalyptic literature : reconsidering the cosmology of 1 Enoch, the community rule, and 1 Corinthians / Emma Wasserman -- Rivalry and enmity : Paul and his 'opponents' in Galatia(ns) / Christopher M. Tuckett -- The Pastoral Epistles as corrections of Paul / Korinna Zamfir -- Deviance and the imagined opponents of Jude and 2 Peter / Daniel A. Smith -- Taming through naming : domesticating the Other in the Apocalypse of John / Sarah E. Rollens -- Polemic, competition, and rivalry among cultic associations / John S. Kloppenborg. |
| Abstract | "This volume collects papers presented at the Tenth International Symposium of the Leuven Centre for the Study of the Gospels, held in July 2022. As the title suggests, the purpose of the conference was to bring together experts on the literature of early Christianity to study how these texts theorize and negotiate difference within groups, polemicize and express enmity against opponents (real or imagined), and engage in competition with other groups, movements, or even texts. Rather than limit contributions to gospel literature, the organizers decided to expand the scope to include other early Christian texts, allowing for a broader array of studies. The title also signals the crucial question which all these papers address in one way or another, which is: at what point does diversity (of belief, practice, or association) cease to be acceptable and begin to be constructed as unacceptable difference, or even deviance?" -- Publisher, page four of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Issued in other form | 9789042953772 e-book version |
| LCCN | 2021277880 |
| ISBN | 9789042953765 |
| ISBN | 9042953764 (paperback) |
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