The Gospels and Their Stories in Anthropological Perspective
Over the past decades, biblical scholars have gradually become more aware of the importance of the social sciences for their own field. This has produced a steady flow of studies informed by work that was done in the fields of group formation psychology, the sociology of emerging movements and the sociology of religion, and historical anthropology. This volume offers the proceedings of a conference that brought together a number of expert biblical scholars, specialists of ancient religious practices, and proponents of an anthropological approach to ancient Christian and Greco-Roman religious tradition. Contributors: William Arnal, Giovanni B. Bazzana, Brigidda Bell, Jan N. Bremmer, Simon Coleman, Pieter F. Craffert, Zeba A. Crook, Martin Ebner, Laura Feldt, John S. Kloppenborg, Halvor Moxnes, Santiago Guijarro Oporto, Sarah E. Rollens, Daniel A. Smith, Joseph Verheyden
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The Gospels and Their Stories in Anthropological Perspective
Over the past decades, biblical scholars have gradually become more aware of the importance of the social sciences for their own field. This has produced a steady flow of studies informed by work that was done in the fields of group formation psychology, the sociology of emerging movements and the sociology of religion, and historical anthropology. This volume offers the proceedings of a conference that brought together a number of expert biblical scholars, specialists of ancient religious practices, and proponents of an anthropological approach to ancient Christian and Greco-Roman religious tradition. Contributors: William Arnal, Giovanni B. Bazzana, Brigidda Bell, Jan N. Bremmer, Simon Coleman, Pieter F. Craffert, Zeba A. Crook, Martin Ebner, Laura Feldt, John S. Kloppenborg, Halvor Moxnes, Santiago Guijarro Oporto, Sarah E. Rollens, Daniel A. Smith, Joseph Verheyden
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The Gospels and Their Stories in Anthropological Perspective

The Gospels and Their Stories in Anthropological Perspective

The Gospels and Their Stories in Anthropological Perspective

The Gospels and Their Stories in Anthropological Perspective

Overview

Over the past decades, biblical scholars have gradually become more aware of the importance of the social sciences for their own field. This has produced a steady flow of studies informed by work that was done in the fields of group formation psychology, the sociology of emerging movements and the sociology of religion, and historical anthropology. This volume offers the proceedings of a conference that brought together a number of expert biblical scholars, specialists of ancient religious practices, and proponents of an anthropological approach to ancient Christian and Greco-Roman religious tradition. Contributors: William Arnal, Giovanni B. Bazzana, Brigidda Bell, Jan N. Bremmer, Simon Coleman, Pieter F. Craffert, Zeba A. Crook, Martin Ebner, Laura Feldt, John S. Kloppenborg, Halvor Moxnes, Santiago Guijarro Oporto, Sarah E. Rollens, Daniel A. Smith, Joseph Verheyden

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783161563089
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Publication date: 09/01/2018
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament , #409
Pages: 339
Product dimensions: 9.29(w) x 6.38(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Joseph Verheyden John S. Kloppenborg 1

Bodies, Demons, and Magic

Beelzebul vs Satan: Exorcist Subjectivity and Spirit Possession in the Historical Jesus Giovanni B. Bazzana 7

Monster Theory and the Gospels: Monstrosities, Ambiguous Power and Emotions in Mark Laura Feldt 29

From Birth Pangs to Dismembered Limbs: The Anthropology of Bodily Violence in the Gospel of Mark Sarah E. Rollens 53

Discerning the False Prophets: An Embodied Approach to Prophetic Testing in Matthew and the Didache Brigidda Bell 69

Textual Healing: Magic in Mark and Acts William Arnal 87

Practices

Religion's Coercive Prayers Zeba A. Crook 127

Der Wanderprediger und sein Anhang als „Lehrer" und „Schüler": Jesus und seine Jünger im Rahmen der römischen Lehrertopographie Martin Ebner 147

Spaces

Secrecy in the Gospel of Matthew from an Anthropological Perspective: Creation of an Alternative World Halvor Moxnes 175

Excursion, Incursion, Conquest: A Spatial Approach to Mission in the Synoptics Daniel A. Smith 191

Visions

The Visions of Jesus and His Disciples Santiago Guijarro 217

Ghosts, Resurrections, and Empty Tombs in the Gospels, the Greek Novel, and the Second Sophistic Jan N. Bremmer 233

Re-Visioning Jesus' Resurrection: The Resurrection Stories in a Neuroanthropological Perspective Pieter F. Craffert 253

Response

Being Undisciplined: An Anthropologists Response Simon Coleman 285

List of Contributors 303

Index of Biblical References 309

Index of Inscriptions, Papyri, and Other References 317

Index of Authors 323

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