Judaic and Christian visions of the social order
Subtitle: describing, analyzing and comparing systems of the formative age
By: edited by Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton, Alan J. Avery-Peck
Series: Studies in religion and the social order; Studies in religion and the social order
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780761856351
Subjects: Biblical Sociology; Rabbinical literature; Judaism; Jüdische Theologie; Jewish sociology; Sozialordnung; Interfaith relations; Relations; Christianity; Bible; Christianity and other religions; Judaism and culture; Christliche Sozialethik; Christian sociology; Christianity and culture; History and criticism; Rabbinismus; Apocryphal books; Criticism, interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword:; title: How does religion imagine society?  -- John T. Fitzgerald with William Scott Green; title: From the repertoire of the Hebrew Bible: visions of the social order  -- Baruch A. Levine; title: 1 Enoch's vague visions of a future social order: foils to its vivid portrayals of the present chaos  -- George W.E. Nickelsburg; title: Visions of the social order: the Qumran library  -- James C. VanderKam; title: Through Greek eyes: Jewish "theocracy" and "state of the wise"  -- Bezalel Bar-Kochva; title: Philo's constructs of social order  -- Maren R. Niehoff; title: Mishnah and concepts of the social order  -- Alan J. Avery-Peck; title: Social vision of rabbinic Judaism ;; title: Torah and culture: H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and culture after fifty years: a Judaic response  -- Jacob Neusner; title: Six people you meet in the synagogue: visions of social order in early rabbinic prayer  -- Tzvee Zahavy; title: Kingdom of God ;; title: Paul's theory of the social order  -- Bruce D. Chilton; title: Early Christian martyrdom, scripture, and social order  -- Frederick W. Weidmann; title: Irenaeus of Lyons (130-200) re-imagining the cosmos from the perspective of the oppressed  -- J.A. McGuckin; title: Origen's social vision of Christian life  -- Petra Heldt; title: Eusebius's (and Constantine's) theory of the political order  -- Bruce D. Chilton; title: Augustine of Hippo (354-430): architect of western Christianity's political theory  -- J.A. McGuckin; title: Conclusions, observations, and limitations: reflections on the visions of the social order collaborative project -- John T. Fitzgerald and William Scott Green.