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…
This book considers issues of community-identity construction, with particular focus on the context and patterns thereof, as put forth in Paul's letter to the Galatians. Both the study of Galatians in particular and Pauline studies in general have been dominated since the Enligh…
The issue of community-identity construction in Galatians is considered using two methods: first, by applying anthropological theories to the mechanism and natures of community-identity and its construction, and second, by comparing the Galatian community with another minority r…
"In studying the debate between Peter and Paul and the resulting primacy on the Latin Church, Otto Zwierlein defends the arguments of Petrus in Rom (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 96; 2009, 2010) and provides additional evidence backing up his claims. The se…
In Abwehr des Grundtenors zweier Kongreßakten (2010/2011) werden mit Blick auf ‚Zwierlein, Petrus in Rom'(2009, 22010) u. a. die folgenden Thesen gesichert: 1. Petrus war niemals in Rom. 2. Petrus und Paulus sind nicht in derNeronischen Christenverfolgung gestorben; sie sind nic…
"Christianity is commonly held to have introduced an entirely new and better morality into the ancient world, a new morality that was decidedly universal, in contrast to the ethics of the philosophical schools which were only concerned with the intellectual few. Runar M. Thorste…