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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Early Christian"”.
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Situating 2 Timothy in early Christian history
… were not written by Paul, but by someone in the early second century. For these scholars, a later date better explains several aspects of these letters that make Pauline authorship difficult to explain. One crucial aspect is that the language, particularly the vocabulary and style of the Pastoral …
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Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
<p>My dissertation analyzes early Christian representations of Jewish sexuality and explores how early Christian writers attacked opponents by depicting them as subjects of perverse or excessive sexual desires. Beginning with the New Testament, I examine how Paul employed sexual stereotypes to …
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Representations of the Care of the Soul in Early Christian Texts
… possible to re-conceptualize the history of the early Christianities in these terms as well, particularly in examining the discourses circulating in the second and third centuries of the Common Era. Juxtaposition and close reading of texts from this period reveal that competing visions of the …
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Reframing Femininity: Collecting Pictures of Early Christian Virgin Martyrs in Seicento Naples
… study of the production and consumption of early Christian female martyr imagery in seventeenth-century Naples. Although it was the second largest city in Europe at the time, scholars have only recently begun to study the flourishing art market and the prevalence of devotional culture in the …
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"This Flesh Will Rise Again": Retrieving Early Christian Faith in Bodily Resurrection
… of bodily resurrection is fundamental to the Christian faith. Its significance is grounded in the fact that the Christian faith arises from and is dependent upon the belief that Jesus returned to life after having been dead and buried. As a result of this belief and the teaching of Christ's …
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The Power of Resurrection: Early Christian Resistance Through the Rise of Disciplinary Power
… dissertation is an analysis of the spread of Christianity in the first three centuries and the commensurate activation and development of what Michel Foucault calls disciplinary mechanisms of power. It sets out to explore two questions, first, what were the theoretical conditions that led to …
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Bound to Sin: New Interpretations of the Fallen Angels in Select Early Christian Fathers
… continued even after their condemnation. The Christian concept of the demon and even its development of the Devil draw on themes present in the Enochic narrative. Several early Christian Fathers of the second and third centuries C.E. still drew on the fallen angels’ story as an explanation for …
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The Letter of James and Middle Platonism: Tracing Early Christian Engagements with Greek Philosophy
… popularity of the Platonic tradition among Christians in the first/second century, while also resolving numerous issues in the history of interpretation for the letter of James. This approach further expands our horizon of expectations for the letter, offering a historical contextualisation …
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Marriage or a Multiplicity of Meanings? The Dextrarum Iunctio on Roman and Early Christian Funerary Monuments
The intent of this study is to assess the validity of the monolithic association between the dextrarum iunctio motif and marriage. Drawing together a catalog of visual, textual and epigraphic evidence, this study will investigate the potential polysemous nature of the motif by utilizing a hybrid …
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"You are My Son": A Study of Mark's Use of Psalm 2 as Early Christian Theologizing
… it attempts to delineate the development of early theologizing on this major theological load-bearing term. Our thesis is that Mark portrays Jesus’ identity and role as Son of God by his distinctive appropriation of eschatological-messianic interpretations of Psalm 2 found in early Jewish …
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Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
<p>In ancient Greece and early Christian Rome, the standard female transition into adulthood was marked by marriage, sex, and childbirth. When this transition was disrupted, the transitional girl’s status within society became insecure. This dissertation argues that the case of the dead Greek …
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The Time of the Reign of Christ in 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 in Light of Early Christian Session Theology
… Christ portrayed in 1 Cor 15:24-28 in light of early Christian Session Tradition. From an assessment of these views, it determines whether, and to what degree, utilizing contemporary tradition is warranted in order to comprehend Paul's assumed understanding regarding the temporal scope of …
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Alexandria in the Shadow of the Hill Cumorah: A Comparative Historical Theology of the Early Christian and Mormon Doctrines of God
… theological and historical development of the early Christian (pre-Nicene) and Mormon doctrines of God. For the Christian tradition, I follow a detailed study of the apostolic period, followed by the apologetical period, and then conclude with the pre-Nicene up to around 250 C.E. For the Mormon …
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The Use of the Jewish Scriptures by Early Christian Greek Apologists 140-190 CE: Justin Martyr, Tatian and Theophilus of Antioch
A striking feature of some Greek Christian apologetic works of the mid-late 2C is the extent to which they make of the Jewish scriptures in their arguments, even though the scriptures were not known to any significant extent in Graeco-Roman circles before the advent of Christianity. To explore why …
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Biblical Sources in the Development of the Concept of the Soul in the Writings of the Fathers of the Early Christian church, 100-325 C.E.
… the thoughts of the ancients on this topic. The early Church Fathers played an important role in mediating the thoughts of the ancients to more recent times. Because of this role, it is important to understand what function the Scriptures had as a source of authority in this process.</p> <p>In …
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A Portrait of the Leadership of Women in Early Christianity: an Archaeological Study in Light of the Historical and Socio-Cultural Contexts
… <p>The participation of women in the Early Christian communities is widely accepted. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on what was their role in these communities. Until now the study of women in the Early Christian communities has focused mostly in the writings of some ancient …
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The Apocalypticism of Hesiod, Plato, & Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries for Christian Apocalyptic Intertexts
… our knowledge of Greco-Roman influences upon early Christian apocalypticism, thus laying a foundation for new intertextual studies. On the other hand, this study bridges apocalypticism research towards certain Greek and Latin authors, thereby creating new pathways of investigation for …
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The theology of The Dream of The Rood
… is acclaimed as one of the finest renderings in Christian literature. The purpose of this paper is to examine the work within the context of the pagan concepts of the cult of the cross and tree veneration to prove that the work accurately reflects the theology and doctrne of the period and …
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Early evidence for coastal exploitation in Ireland
… of coastal resource exploitation for the early Christian period in Ireland is limited. The aim of this study is to address this by collating all the available evidence from both archaeological and literary sources. The archaeological evidence presented here concentrates on fauna] and …
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