... grounded in reason and the particular Mosaic Law grounded in will, this response chose to emphasize it, attributing few or none of the features of classical divine law to biblical Law. Versions of this response in the period under study are found in the Gospels and other New Testament books, especially...

... anarchism, with its pivotal text What Then Must We Do? (1883–1886). The third is doctrinal: Tolstoy’s image of Jesus, whose assault on the Temple and ethically oriented parables are central to Tolstoy’s own rewriting and ‘harmonization’ of the Gospels. This discussion ends with the 1901...

... Brockovich Gnostic gospels Harris Robert Pompeii The Insider National Theatre London Opus Dei Paul St Paul of Tarsus Priory of Sion Templars women Augustine St Fall London Eve Genesis Mary of Bethany prostitution Schweitzer Albert NEW TESTAMENT Easter story John Lincoln Henry misogyny...

... elements that echoed the Old within the New Testament. And third, there was a second-century movement, known as Montanism, which emphasized the elements of prophecy, continuing charismatic inspiration, and a revolutionary view of the future. The three significant literary aspects concern the gospels...

...This essay discusses the problems related to discussion of the publication and dependence of the Synoptic Gospels, as traditionally conceived. It first considers the state of the field on issues related to publication and dependence, including a diagnosis of its key assumptive building blocks...

...The study of the Synoptic Gospel healing and exorcism stories has been dominated by contemporary medicalized ways of viewing the human body. This essay challenges those approaches, which assume that there are universal ideals of the body that transcend time and space, and privileges approaches...

...Women appear throughout all of the Gospels, sometimes unnamed or unacknowledged. While first-century Palestine was patriarchal, women often had more autonomy and independence than modern readers sometimes accord them. This essay examines the question of locating the women in the Gospels before...

...This chapter examines a series of key texts within the major bodies of New Testament scripture. Beginning with the synoptic Gospels and moving through the Johannine literature, the Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline Epistles, and Revelation, Leo Lefebure pursues the theme of conflict, especially...

... major position, history is the ground of faith. That is to say, historical investigation establishes rational foundations for the commitment of Christian faith. The fourth major position holds that Christian faith comes from God's revealing word as conveyed by the testimony of the Church—the Gospels...

... bouleutḗrion ethnological discourse —Commentary on Isaiah —Demonstration of the Gospels —Preparation of the Gospels George of Cappadocia Hebraioi Hebrews Hypsistarians —Philosophy from Oracles Abraham Jews Judeans Ioudaioi Boulnois —Against Porphyry Harnack hellenizing Libanius Porphyry...

...This chapter discusses the copies of works by Augustine (his Commentary on the Gradual Psalms, in Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek M.p.th.f. 17) and Gregory I (his Homilies on the Gospels, in Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek M.p.th.f. 45) that were produced at Karlburg and Kitzingen respectively...

...This statement takes up Jean Luc Nancy’s Corpus (2000) and interrogates the Christian theme of the body in post-phenomenological traditions in France, also drawing upon the early Christian gospels. body Christianity community Derrida Jacques haptology Husserl Edmund Nancy...

...This chapter looks at editorial work, Gospel translation, traditions for reception, and attitudes toward the fourfold Gospels among late ancient scribes and scholars to illuminate the evidence of the pericope adulterae appearing only “in certain Gospels.” After nearly two centuries of spirited...

... and promulgated the Roman stational liturgy, Jerome's Vulgate, and also the pericope adulterae, which was featured in an imperial-sponsored homiliary and depicted in luxurious copies of the Gospels. The story was comparatively peripheral in Byzantine contexts, yet it was incorporated in this context as well...

...The purpose of this book is to show why and how (what later became) the four canonical gospels take on a historical cast, a history-like “feel” that remains vitally important for many Christians today. This aim is worked out by in-depth comparisons with other Greco-Roman stories that have been made...

...This chapter discusses Jesus's attitude toward the Temple, which plays an important role throughout the gospels' narratives. The gospels seemingly describe a relationship of conflict between Jesus and Temple authorities but lack any straightforward statement by the evangelists about Jesus's...

..., however, because of multiform texts, anonymous authorship, and the many different languages the texts survive in. Popular genres included Gospels, Apocryphal Acts, Apocalyptic, and epistolography. When read as a whole, the large and diverse corpus of early Christian imaginative literature corresponds well...

...This chapter discusses the fundamental differences between the current and past imaginings of the Gospels by remembering the founding models of biblical transformations. The initial encounter with the Scriptures of many of today's generation is likely to be through a reading or viewing...

...This chapter discusses the meeting between St. Paul and Jesus as an idea that developed in the last twenty years of George Moore's life. The Gospels had gone through imaginative treatment in dramatic scenarios, prose fiction and poetry by the early twentieth century, but the rigid adherence...

...Eusebius the Evangelist. Jeremiah Coogan, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197580042.003.0004 Eusebius’ creative juxtapositions transformed Gospel reading, connecting material in ways that previous Gospel configurations had not. Eusebius...