Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries (eBook)

Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation

Donghyun Jeong (Autor)

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2023
349 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
9783110791501 (ISBN)

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This monograph provides an alternative model for looking at the old question about Paul and the mysteries in a new light. Specifically, this study compares rituals-baptism in the Pauline communities and the initiation rituals of the mysteries-through the lens of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religion. Three research questions lead the project: What benefits does each initiation ritual promise its participants? What are the underlying messages or structures that guarantee the efficacy of those rituals? How and to what extent is the initiation ritual connected to the participants' cognition and ethics beyond initiation itself? Taking those questions as the analytical framework, this study substantiates two points: first, in terms of ritual messages, baptism in the Pauline communities is a ritual analogous to mystery initiation, and second, Paul is an innovative interpreter of ritual who recalibrates the messages of preexisting rituals for his theological and ethical program, seeking to radically extend the implications of initiation to the embodied life of every Christ-believer. Students and scholars of New Testament, early Christianity, classics, and ritual studies will benefit from engaging this volume.

Donghyun Jeong, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, TX, USA.

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Abbreviations

 

 

AA

American Anthropologist

AB

Anchor Bible

AHK

Richard S. Ascough, Philip A. Harland, John S. Kloppenborg, Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook (Waco 2012)

AJP

American Journal of Philology

AN

Ancient Narrative

ANRW

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt

AP3 A

Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropology Association

ARG

Archiv für Religionsgeschichte

ARS

Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades

Bib

Biblica

BTB

Biblical Theology Bulletin

BZNW

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

CA

Cultural Anthropology

CBQ

Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CBR

Currents in Biblical Research

CED

Pierre Roussel, Les cultes égyptiens à Délos du IIIe au Ier siècle av. J. -C. (Paris 1916)

CGRN

Collection of Greek Ritual Norms

CIL

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. 3 vols.

CLE

Carmina Latina Epigraphica

EC

Early Christianity

EKK

Evangelisch Katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament

ETL

Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

GJ

Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston, Ritual Texts for the Afterlife (2nd edition; London 2013)

HABES

Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien

HJ

Hibbert Journal

HR

History of Religions

HSCP

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

ICS

Illinois Classical Studies

HTR

Harvard Theological Review

IEJ

Israel Exploration Journal

IG II2

Johannes Kirchner (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae II et III: Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores, 2nd edition

IG IV

Max Fraenkel (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae Aeginae, Pityonesi, Cecryphaliae, Argolidis (Berlin 1902)

IG X,2 1

Charles Edson (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae X: Inscriptiones Epiri, Macedoniae, Thraciae, Scythiae. Pars II, fasc. 1: Inscriptiones Thessalonicae et viciniae (Berlin 1972)

IG XII,5

Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae XII,5. Inscriptiones Cycladum. 2 vols. (Berlin 1903 – 1909)

IG XIV

Georg Kaibel (ed.), Inscriptiones Graecae XIV. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Italiae, additis Galliae, Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus (Berlin 1890)

IJPT

International Journal of Philosophy and Theology

I.Kyme

Helmut Engelmann, Die Inschriften von Kyme (Bonn 1976)

I.Miletos

Donald F. McCabe, Miletos Inscriptions. Texts and List (Princeton 1984)

Jaccottet

Anne-Françoise Jaccottet, Choisir Dionysos: les associations dionysiaques, ou, La face cache´e du dionysisme, 2 vols. (Zürich 2003)

JBL

Journal of Biblical Literature

JHS

Journal of Hellenic Studies

JR

Journal of Religion

JSNT

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

JSSR

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

JTC

Journal of Theology and the Church

JTS

Journal of Theological Studies

KD

Kerygma und Dogma

KJCS

Korean Journal of Christian Studies

LCL

The Loeb Classical Library

LSAM

Franciszek Sokolowski, Lois sacrées de l’Asie Mineure (Paris 1955)

MA

Mediterranean Archaeology

MH

Museum Helveticum

NICNT

The New International Commentary on New Testament

NIGTC

The New International Greek Testament Commentary

NovT

Novum Testamentum

NTL

New Testament Library

NTS

New Testament Studies

OF

Alberto Bernabé (ed.), Poetae Epici Graeci. II Orphicorum et Orphicis similium testimonia et fragmenta. Fasc. 1/2

PGM

Papyri Graecae Magicae

P.Oxy

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri

PP

Past and Present

RB

Revue Biblique

RBL

Review of Biblical Literature

RGRW

Religions in the Graeco-Roman World

RICIS

Laurent Bricault, Recueil des inscriptions concernant les cultes isiaques, 3 vols. (Paris 2005)

RPP

Religion Past and Present

SBA

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity

SEG

Jacob E. Hondius (ed.), Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

SEÅ

Svensk exegetisk årsbok

SIRIS

Ladislav Vidman (ed.), Sylloge inscriptionum religionis Isiacae et Sarapiacae (Berlin 1969)

SJOT

Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament

SJT

Scottish Journal of Theology

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
• Reihe/Serie: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
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• Zusatzinfo: 13 b/w and 10 col. ill., 9 b/w tbl.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Schlagworte: Bibel. Paulinische Briefe • Dionisys • Dionysus (god) • Initiationsriten • Isis • Isis (goddess) • Pauline letters • Ritual messages • Taufe
• ISBN-13: 9783110791501 / 9783110791501