This volume contains forty-eight essays, presented by friends, colleagues and students from many countries, in honour of Florentino Garcia Martinez, director of the Groningen Qumran Institute, editor-in-chief of the "Journal for the Study of Judaism", and professor in Leuven. Th…
These essays challenge the traditional picture of Christian origins. Making use of social anthropology, they move away from traditional assumptions about the foundations of Christianity to propose that its historical beginnings are best understood as reflexive social experiments.
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Social and cultural memory theory examines the ways communities and individuals reconstruct and commemorate their pasts in light of shared experiences and current social realities. Drawing on the methods of this emerging field, this volume both introduces memory theory to biblic…
Social and cultural memory theory examines the ways communities and individuals reconstruct and commemorate their pasts in light of shared experiences and current social realities. Drawing on the methods of this emerging field, this volume both introduces memory theory to biblic…