Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion

Studies in Discourse with the Work of Guy G. Stroumsa
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-16-155001-0
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum /Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity

The articles in this volume discuss polemically charged re-evaluations of the religious traditions and scriptures of the Western world, employed throughout the centuries in various religious contexts. These studies consider new religious outlooks not as glosses on inherited traditions, but as acts of power exercised in the struggle for identity: contestation, appropriation, interpretation and polemics against the religious "other", involving, sometimes covertly, critiques of inherited tradition. The volume outlines a typology of the variety of attested strategies, highlighting cases of borderline extremes involving subversions of mainstream forms of belief as well as elucidating more moderate avenues of interaction. Most of the studies were presented at a 2016 conference in Jerusalem honouring Guy G. Stroumsa, a renowned scholar of early Christianity and Late Antiquity, recipient of many scholarly awards, including the Leopold Lucas Prize 2018.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blidstein, Moshe

Ruzer, Serge

Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Blidstein, Moshe
Born 1982; 2014 PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from Oxford University; currently a post-doctorate research fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel
Geboren 1970; Studium der Religionswissenschaften, Judaistik und Theologie; 2002 Promotion; 2011 Habilitation; derzeit Forschungsprofessor an der École pratique des hautes études in Paris auf dem Lehrstuhl für Sprache, Literatur, Paläographie und Epigraphie des Hebräischen und Aramäischen vom vierten Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum vierten Jahrhundert n. Chr.

Ruzer, Serge
Born 1950; 1996 PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; teaches at the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a Research Fellow at that University's Center for the Study of Christianity.