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      New TestamentHumorCultural History Of GhostsSynoptic Gospels
Edition of P.Duk. inv. 728 (sixth century CE) appears to record the marriage-gift of part of a monastery from the wife to the husband.
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      ClassicsLate Antique and Byzantine HistoryPapyrologyGender History
Recently the walking, talking cross in the Gospel of Peter has been interpreted as a popular belief or a common apocalyptic motif, irrelevant for understanding the gospel’s christology. I argue that the animated cross should be understood... more
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      Early ChristianityGospelsEarly Christian Apocryphal LiteratureVisions And Dreams
In the late fourth- or early fifth-century bilingual Codex Bezae (D), Lk. 6.5 includes the following agraphon in Greek and Latin: ‘On the same day, when [Jesus] saw someone working on the Sabbath, he said to him, “Man, if you know what... more
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      Textual CriticismJewish - Christian RelationsNew Testament Textual CriticismSabbath
Ancient Christian anti-Sabbath polemic worked to fashion Christianity and Judaism as distinct. This article demonstrates how Christian polemic against Sabbath-day synagogue attendance as well as arguments insisting on worship only on the... more
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      Early ChristianityNew Testament Textual CriticismSabbathParting of the Ways
Jason Robert Combs, “Shepherd of Hermas and the Christian Experience of Non-Christian Epiphany” in Experiencing the Shepherd of Hermas, ed. Angela Kim Harkins and Harry O. Maier, Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle... more
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      Early ChristianityEarly Christian Apocryphal LiteratureAngelsDreams (History)
The Markan Passion narrative alludes to Ps 22 (LXX Ps 21) in reverse, culminating with Jesus' cry: 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' (Mark 15.34; cf. Ps 22.1). I argue that this 'extended inverted allusion' was an admired... more
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      New TestamentBiblical StudiesSynoptic GospelsIntertextuality
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Athanasius’s letter provides evidence of how he drew upon resources available in Hellenistic philosophy to integrate the psalms into the sort of meditational practices that were the chief means of caring for oneself taught by the... more
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      PatristicsEarly ChristianityBook of PsalmsAscetical Theology
The profile of American clergy is rapidly changing, especially when gauged in terms of their increasing age and the small number of young people who begin ministry in their twenties. This article contends that the problem of recruitment... more
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      Sociology of ProfessionsPastoral TheologyTheology of Ministry/OfficeChristian Ministry
In a world where too many people continue to be tortured without recourse to legal protections, nonlegislative resources for preserving human dignity amid dehumanizing terror are much needed. This article analyzes the hermeneutical... more
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      PatristicsEarly ChristianityTortureOrigen
While Reinhold Niebuhr's realist political philosophy continues to find advocates in many quarters on account of its explanatory power, his Christian ideals have had difficulty gaining purchase in the material world. The tension between... more
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      Systematic TheologyRealism (Political Science)AugustineChristology
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      Hellenistic PhilosophyPatristicsHistorical TheologyEarly Christianity
Augustine’s Christian psychology is best understood as one particularly brilliant example of the philosophically informed therapies that were prevalent in the late antique world. Representatives of Greek and Roman philosophical schools... more
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      PsychologyPatristicsEarly ChristianityAugustine
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      AugustineAugustine of Hippo
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      Church HistoryReligious StudiesBryn Mawr Classical Review
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      Early ChristianityAugustineAugustine of HippoGraeco-Roman philosophy