Galilee from Alexander the Great to Hadrian, 323 B.C.E. to 135 C.E.: A Study If Second Temple Judaism

Religion & Spirituality

Freyne, Sean

Judaism

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

In this book, Sean Freyne gives new insights into the understanding of the historical Jesus and his ministry in the context of the social setting of Galilee. The author is director of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Studies at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

Galilee and Gospel: Collected Essays

Humanities Pr

In his latest book, Sean Freyne draws on his detailed knowledge of Galilean society in the Roman period, based on both literary and archaeological sources, to give a fresh and provocative reading of the Jesus-story within its Galilean setting. Jesus, a Jewish Galilean focuses on the religious as well as the social and political environment and examines the ways in which the Jewish religious experience had expressed itself in Galilee. It examines the ways in which the Jewish tradition in both the Pentateuch and the Prophets had constructed notions of an ideal Galilee. These provided the raw material for Jesus' own response to the issues of the day, from which he fashioned his own distinctive views of Israel's restoration and his own role in that project.Although Freyne is in touch with all recent scholarship about the historical Jesus, he brings his own distinctive take on the issues both with regard to Galilean society and Jesus' grounding in his own religious tradition. His Jesus is both Jewish and yet distinctive in his concerns and the ways in which he responds to the ecological, social and religious issues of his own time and place. Freyne seeks to retrieve the theological importance of Jesus' own message, something that has been lost sight of in the trend to present him primarily as a social reformer, while acknowledging the dangers of modernising Jesus.

Jesus, A Jewish Galilean: A New Reading Of The Jesus-Story

Christian Books & Bibles

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

In his latest book, Sean Freyne draws on his detailed knowledge of Galilean society in the Roman period, based on both literary and archaeological sources, to give a fresh and provocative reading of the Jesus-story within its Galilean setting. Jesus, a Jewish Galilean focuses on the religious as well as the social and political environment and examines the ways in which the Jewish religious experience had expressed itself in Galilee. It examines the ways in which the Jewish tradition in both the Pentateuch and the Prophets had constructed notions of an ideal Galilee. These provided the raw material for Jesus' own response to the issues of the day, from which he fashioned his own distinctive views of Israel's restoration and his own role in that project. Although Freyne is in touch with all recent scholarship about the historical Jesus, he brings his own distinctive take on the issues both with regard to Galilean society and Jesus' grounding in his own religious tradition. His Jesus is both Jewish and yet distinctive in his concerns and the ways in which he responds to the ecological, social and religious issues of his own time and place. Freyne seeks to retrieve the theological importance of Jesus' own message, something that has been lost sight of in the trend to present him primarily as a social reformer, while acknowledging the dangers of modernising Jesus.

Jesus, a Jewish Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus Story

T&T Clark

Provides a detailed picture of Galilean life in the period prior to and spanning the genesis of Christianity. Freyne offers a comprehensive treatment of geographical and historical, social and cultural, and religious aspects of Galilean life.

Galilee: From Alexander the Great to Hadrian 323 Bce to 135 Ce : A Study of Second Temple Judaism

UNKNO

Galilee, Jesus and the Gospels: Literary Approaches and Historical Investigations

Fortress Press

Authoritative account of the Jesus movement's Greco-Roman and Jewish matrix and its development into the second century In this book Sean Freyne explores the rise and expansion of early Christianity within the context of the Greco-Roman world -- the living, dynamic matrix of Jesus and his followers. In addition to offering fresh insights into Jesus' Jewish upbringing and the possible impact of Greco-Roman lifestyles on him and his followers, Freyne delves into the mission and expansion of the Jesus movement in Palestine and beyond during the first hundred years of its development. To give readers a full picture of the context in which the Jesus movement developed, Freyne includes pictures, maps, and timelines throughout the book. Freyne's interdisciplinary approach, combining historical, archaeological, and literary methods, makes The Jesus Movement and Its Expansion both comprehensive and accessible.

The Jesus Movement and Its Expansion: Meaning and Mission

History

World

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Cultural milieu in which the New Testament was written.

The World of the New Testament (New Testament Message, V. 2)

Michael Glazier Books

Mark and Matthew

WANSBROUGH, HENRY

Acta Pubns

Introduction: The many faces of the divine? / Hermann Ha?ring -- I. Images of God and the divine. 'Treasure to the good, protection to evil' / Knut Walf. God, gods and divinity in the Hindu tradition of the Pa?n?cara?tra / Angelika Malinar. Zen and human existence / Ruben L.F. Habito. The paradox of the many faces of God in monotheism / David Tracy. Christian belief in the threefold God / Hermann Ha?ring -- II. Dimensions of religious experience of God. God in Ntomba prayer / Laurent Mpongo. The experience of God in Jesus Christ / Bruno Forte. Meister Eckhart : the postponement of unity as a sphere of life / Frans Maas. The relationship with God and social conduct / Peter Eicher. The feminine face of God / Helen Schu?ngel-Straumann. Negative theology as postmodern talk of God / Erik Borgman -- III. The God of life and the gods of death. The divine in a godless society / Johann Figl. The God of life and the revival of religion / Pablo Richard -- Special column 1995/2: The church a/ Pablo Richard -

The Bible and Its Readers (CONCILIUM)

Beuken, Wim

Orbis Books

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