Judaic and Christian visions of the social order : describing, analyzing, and comparing systems of the formative age / edited by Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton, Alan J. Avery-Peck.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016, Chilton, Bruce, Avery-Peck, Alan J. (Alan Jeffery), 1953-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2011.
Series:	Studies in religion and the social order.
Subjects:	Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. > N.T. > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Sociology, Biblical. Jewish sociology. Judaism and culture. Christian sociology. Christianity and culture. Rabbinical literature > History and criticism. Apocryphal books > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Judaism > Relations > Christianity. Christianity and other religions > Judaism.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: How does religion imagine society? / John T. Fitzgerald with William Scott Green
From the repertoire of the Hebrew Bible: visions of the social order / Baruch A. Levine
1 Enoch's vague visions of a future social order: foils to its vivid portrayals of the present chaos / George W.E. Nickelsburg
Visions of the social order: the Qumran library / James C. VanderKam
Through Greek eyes: Jewish "theocracy" and "state of the wise" / Bezalel Bar-Kochva
Philo's constructs of social order / Maren R. Niehoff
Mishnah and concepts of the social order / Alan J. Avery-Peck
Social vision of rabbinic Judaism ; Torah and culture: H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and culture after fifty years: a Judaic response / Jacob Neusner
Six people you meet in the synagogue: visions of social order in early rabbinic prayer / Tzvee Zahavy
Kingdom of God ; Paul's theory of the social order / Bruce D. Chilton
Early Christian martyrdom, scripture, and social order / Frederick W. Weidmann
Irenaeus of Lyons (130-200) re-imagining the cosmos from the perspective of the oppressed / J.A. McGuckin
Origen's social vision of Christian life / Petra Heldt
Eusebius's (and Constantine's) theory of the political order / Bruce D. Chilton
Augustine of Hippo (354-430): architect of western Christianity's political theory / J.A. McGuckin
Conclusions, observations, and limitations: reflections on the visions of the social order collaborative project / John T. Fitzgerald and William Scott Green.

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