Research Catalog

Title

Redescribing Christian origins / edited by Ron Cameron and Merrill P. Miller.

Publication

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cameron, Ron.
• Miller, Merrill P.

Description

xvi, 539 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 28

Uniform Title

Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 28.

Subject

Christianity > Origin > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-520) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Ancient myths and modern theories of Christian origins / Ron Cameron and Merrill P. Miller -- PART 1: ALTERNATE BEGINNINGS: THE SAYINGS GOSPEL Q AND THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS -- Introduction to the papers from the third year of the consultation / Merrill P. Miller -- Schooling of a Galilean Jesus Association (the sayings Gospel Q) / Willi Braun -- Why Q failed: from ideological project to group formation / William E. Arnal -- Ancient myths and modern theories of the Gospel of Thomas and Christian origins / Ron Cameron -- "Keep speaking until you find. . . ": Thomas and the school of oral mimesis / Arthur J. Dewey -- Discussion and reflections / Merrill P. Miller -- PART 2: A JESUS SCHOOL IN JERUSALEM? -- Proposal for the first year of the seminar / Ron Cameron -- Introduction to the papers from the first year of the seminar / Ron Cameron -- Acts and the history of the earliest Jerusalem church / Christopher R. Matthews -- Antioch, Paul, and Jerusalem: diaspora myths of origins in the homeland / Merrill P. Miller -- What do we really know about the Jerusalem church? Christian origins in Jerusalem according to Acts and Paul / Dennis E. Smith -- Jewish Jesus school in Jerusalem? / Burton L. Mack -- History, historiography, and Christian origins: the Jerusalem community / Luther H. Martin -- Agenda for the annual meeting, discussion, and reflections / Ron Cameron.
• PART 3: PRE-PAULINE CHRISTOS ASSOCIATION -- Proposal for the second year of the seminar / Ron Cameron -- Introduction to the papers from the second year of the seminar / Ron Cameron -- Problem of the origins of a Messianic conception of Jesus / Merrill P. Miller -- Christos as nickname / Barry S. Crawford -- From Messiahs to Christ: the pre-Pauline Christ cult in scholarship / Christopher R. Matthews -- Why Christos? The social reasons / Burton L. Mack -- Anointed Jesus / Merrill P. Miller -- Agenda for the annual meeting, discussion, and reflections / Ron Cameron -- Backbay Jazz and Blues / Burton L. Mack -- Smoke signals from the North: a reply to Burton Mack's "Backbay Jazz and Blues" / Willi Braun -- Issues and commentary / Ron Cameron and Merrill P. Miller -- PART 4: METAREFLECTIONS -- Social formation and mythmaking: theses on key terms / William E. Arnal and Willi Braun -- Remarkable / Burton L. Mack -- Redescribing Christian origins: historiography or exegesis? / Luther H. Martin -- Dayyeinu / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Mythmaking, social formation, and varieties of social theory / Stanley K. Stowers -- Conclusion: Redescribing Christian origins / Ron Cameron and Merrill P. Miller.

ISBN

1589830881 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004004747

OCLC

• 54611255
• SCSB-10379158

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library