Ancient Jewish and Christian texts as crisis management literature
Subtitle: thematic studies from the Centre for Early Christian Studies
By: edited by David C. Sim and Pauline Allen
Series: Library of New Testament studies -- 445; Library of New Testament studies -- 445.
Publisher: T & T Clark
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780567281029; 9780567022974
Subjects: Bible; Frühjudentum; Crisis management; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Literatur; Christianity; Bibel; Early Christian literature; Krise; Bewältigung; Frühchristentum
Description: "This volume demonstrates that many Jewish and Christian texts in the ancient world were written as a direct response to an earlier situation of crisis that affected the author, or the intended reader. Presented here are texts from both traditions that were written over many centuries, showing that such crisis management literature was widespread in the religious and theological literature of ancient times. These chosen works reveal that all manner of crises could contribute to the production of these texts; including persecution, political factors, religious or theological differences, social circumstances, as well as internal or external threats. By understanding this crucial element in their composition of these texts we are better able to understand the complexity of social, political and religious forces that gave rise to many ancient theological texts, and to appreciate the strategies which the authors used to manage these crises"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: The Jewish war as a response to the crisis of Flavian propaganda / James S. McLaren; title: Coping with the present by inventing the future : Jewish apocalyptic texts as crisis management literature / David C. Sim; title: Family feud : Paul's response to the internecine crisis in Galatia / Ian J. Elmer; title: Fighting on all fronts : crisis management in the gospel of Matthew / David C. Sim; title: Monitoring women's roles : Luke's response to a crisis of acceptability in the Roman Empire / Elizabeth Dowling; title: Leadership in a time of crisis : re-evaluating Nicodemus (John 3.1-10) / Mary L. Coloe; title: The Roman response to the ecclesiastical crises in the Antiochene Church in the late-fourth and early-fifth centuries / Geoffrey D. Dunn; title: John Chrysostom as crisis manager : the years in Constantinople / Wendy Mayer; title: A crisis of orthodoxy : Leo I's fight against the 'deadly disease' of Heresy / Bronwen Neil; title: Stage-managing crisis : bishops' liturgical responses to crisis (4th-6th centuries) / Pauline Allen.