The Christian Moses : from Philo to the Qur'ān / edited by Philip Rousseau and Janet A. Timbie.
2019
BS580.M6 C485 2019eb
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Title
The Christian Moses : from Philo to the Qur'ān / edited by Philip Rousseau and Janet A. Timbie.
ISBN
9780813231921 (PDF)
0813231922 (PDF)
9780813231914 (hardcover)
0813231914 (hardcover)
0813231922 (PDF)
9780813231914 (hardcover)
0813231914 (hardcover)
Published
Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
BS580.M6 C485 2019eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1111981405
Summary
As it developed an increasingly distinctive character of its own during the first six centuries of the common era, Christianity was constantly forced to reassess and adapt its relationship with the Jewish tradition. The process involved a number of preoccupations and challenges: the status of biblical and parabiblical texts (several of them already debatable in Jewish eyes), the nature and purposes of God, patterns of prayer (both personal and liturgical), ritual practices, ethical norms, the acquisition and exercise of religious authority, and the presentation of a religious "face" to the very different culture that surrounded and in many ways dominated both Christians and Jews. The essays in this volume were developed within that broad field of inquiry, and indeed make their contribution to it. For, among the many issues already mentioned, there was also that of persons. What was Christianity to do, not just with Adam or Noah, say, but with Abraham, David and Solomon, the great prophetic figures of Jewish history-and, of course, with Moses? As we move, chapter by chapter, across the early Christian centuries, we see Moses gradually changing in Christian eyes, and at the hands of Christian exegetes and theologians, until he becomes the philosopher par excellence, the forerunner of Plato, the archetype of the lawgiver, the model shepherd of the people of God-yet all on the basis of a scriptural record that Jews would still have been able to recognize
Note
As it developed an increasingly distinctive character of its own during the first six centuries of the common era, Christianity was constantly forced to reassess and adapt its relationship with the Jewish tradition. The process involved a number of preoccupations and challenges: the status of biblical and parabiblical texts (several of them already debatable in Jewish eyes), the nature and purposes of God, patterns of prayer (both personal and liturgical), ritual practices, ethical norms, the acquisition and exercise of religious authority, and the presentation of a religious "face" to the very different culture that surrounded and in many ways dominated both Christians and Jews. The essays in this volume were developed within that broad field of inquiry, and indeed make their contribution to it. For, among the many issues already mentioned, there was also that of persons. What was Christianity to do, not just with Adam or Noah, say, but with Abraham, David and Solomon, the great prophetic figures of Jewish history-and, of course, with Moses? As we move, chapter by chapter, across the early Christian centuries, we see Moses gradually changing in Christian eyes, and at the hands of Christian exegetes and theologians, until he becomes the philosopher par excellence, the forerunner of Plato, the archetype of the lawgiver, the model shepherd of the people of God-yet all on the basis of a scriptural record that Jews would still have been able to recognize
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Moses and Jesus against the Pharisees : Mark and Paul on Moses / Daniel Boyarin
Luke's narrative claim on Moses, the persecuted prophet / Dulcinea Boesenberg
The Pauline Moses at Corinth : indications of a transformation / Emmanuel Nathan
Following Paul, following Moses : Moses as exemplar in Clement of Rome's letter to the Corinthians / Virginia Wayland
A servant in God's house" : competing roles of Moses in I Clement, the Epistle to the Hebrews / David A. Smith
The making of a classic : Moses as author / Richard A. Layton
Rght reasoning and the interpretation of the Mosaic law in Clement of Alexandria / Kathleen Gibbons
Eusebius's Moses : Hebrew, Jew, and Christian / Michael Hollerich
The ascetic leader in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses / Ellen Muehlberger
Moses ascends to heaven : Gregory of Nyssa's tabernacle imagery in Life of Moses 2.170-201 / Ann Conway-Jones
Moses and the Christian "new Moses" in early Christian funerary art / Robin M. Jensen
Moses at Sinai : from Aphrahat to Rabbula / Naomi Koltun-Fromm
Against the Manichaean Moses : Augustine on Moses and scripture / Paula Fredriksen
Moses the metonym : Cyril of Alexandria on the law's self-critique / Lee Blackburn
Between individual and prototype : Moses in late antique Latin Christian epic / Michael Müller
Discipline and mercy : Moses as a pattern for good rulers in the works of Pope Gregory the Great / Vadim Prozorov
Moses at the margins of space and time / John C. Reeves.
Luke's narrative claim on Moses, the persecuted prophet / Dulcinea Boesenberg
The Pauline Moses at Corinth : indications of a transformation / Emmanuel Nathan
Following Paul, following Moses : Moses as exemplar in Clement of Rome's letter to the Corinthians / Virginia Wayland
A servant in God's house" : competing roles of Moses in I Clement, the Epistle to the Hebrews / David A. Smith
The making of a classic : Moses as author / Richard A. Layton
Rght reasoning and the interpretation of the Mosaic law in Clement of Alexandria / Kathleen Gibbons
Eusebius's Moses : Hebrew, Jew, and Christian / Michael Hollerich
The ascetic leader in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses / Ellen Muehlberger
Moses ascends to heaven : Gregory of Nyssa's tabernacle imagery in Life of Moses 2.170-201 / Ann Conway-Jones
Moses and the Christian "new Moses" in early Christian funerary art / Robin M. Jensen
Moses at Sinai : from Aphrahat to Rabbula / Naomi Koltun-Fromm
Against the Manichaean Moses : Augustine on Moses and scripture / Paula Fredriksen
Moses the metonym : Cyril of Alexandria on the law's self-critique / Lee Blackburn
Between individual and prototype : Moses in late antique Latin Christian epic / Michael Müller
Discipline and mercy : Moses as a pattern for good rulers in the works of Pope Gregory the Great / Vadim Prozorov
Moses at the margins of space and time / John C. Reeves.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 05, 2019).
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Series
CUA studies in early Christianity.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Rousseau, Phillip. Christian Moses. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2019
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