Experientia, Volume 2

Linking Text and Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23072-9
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: SBL - Early Judaism and Its Literature

This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity that began in Experientia, Volume 1. Drawing on insights from disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, social memory theory, neuroscience, and cognitive science, the authors focus especially on the relationship between primary texts and the religious experiences that precede or ensue from them. The essays explore a range of religious phenomena, such as worship, experiences within community, ecstasy, mystical ascent, gender, eating, and transformation achieved through reading. Through careful and theoretically informed work, the authors demonstrate the possibility of moving from written documents to assess the lived experiences that are linked to them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shantz, Colleen

Werline, Rodney

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Opening the Black Box: New Prospects for Analyzing Religious Experience
Colleen Shantz
The Experience of God’s Paideia in the Psalms of Solomon
Rodney A. Werline
Esoteric Mystical Practice in Fourth Ezra and the Reconfiguration of Social Memory
Frances Flannery
Filled with New Wine? Religious Experience and Social Dynamics in the Corinthian Church
István Czachesz
Ideology and Experience in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve
John R. Levison
Violence as Religious Experience in the Gospel of Mark
Leif E. Vaage
“Keep Up Your Transformation within the Renewal of Your Mind”: Romans as a Therapeutic Letter
Robin Griffith-Jones
“In Christ” and “Christ in” as Expressions of Religious Experience: Testing the Waters in Galatians
Rollin A. Ramsaran
Paul, Baptism, and Religious Experience
Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Two Case Studies
Carol A. Newsom
Religious Experience through the Lens of Critical Spatiality: A Look at Embodiment Language in Prayers and Hymns
Angela Kim Harkins
Bibliography
Contributors
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Colleen Shantz is Associate Professor of New Testament at St. Michael’s College in the Toronto School of Theology. She is the author of Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle’s Life and Thought (Cambridge University Press) and the co-editor of Experientia, Volume 1: Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity (BRILL). She chairs the Religious Experience section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Rodney A. Werline is Associate Professor and the Marie and Leman Barnhill Endowed Chair in Religious Studies at Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina. He is the author of Pray Like This (Continuum) and Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism: The Development of a Religious Institution (Society of Biblical Literature) and the co-editor of numerous volumes including Experientia, Volume 1: Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity (BRILL).