Publication

2017 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

83,750 words, Guess

Page Count

335 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004251373
  • ISBN-109004251375
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016047286
  • OCLC Control Number958781745
  • Better World Books9789004251373
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Classifications

  • LCCBR165.D43 2017
  • LCCBR165 .D43 2017

Description

From Jesus to his first followers' examines to what extent early Christian groups were in continuity or discontinuity with respect to Jesus. Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce concentrate on the transformation of religious practices. Their anthropological-historical analysis focuses on the relations between discipleship and households, on the models of contact with the supernatural world, and on cohabitation among distinct religious groups. The book highlights how Matthew uses non-Jewish instruments of legitimation, John reformulates religious experiences through symbolized domestic slavery, Paul adopts a religious practice diffused in Roman-Hellenistic environments. The book reconstructs the map of early Christian groups in the Land of Israel and explains their divergences on the basis of an original theory of the local origin of Gospels' information.

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