Ancient Myths And Modern Theories Of Christian Origins / Ron Cameron And Merrill P. Miller -- Part 1: Alternate Beginnings: The Sayings Gospel Q And The Gospel Of Thomas -- Introduction To The Papers From The Third Year Of The Consultation / Merrill P. Miller -- Schooling Of A Galilean Jesus Association (the Sayings Gospel Q) / Willi Braun -- Why Q Failed: From Ideological Project To Group Formation / William E. Arnal -- Ancient Myths And Modern Theories Of The Gospel Of Thomas And Christian Origins / Ron Cameron -- Keep Speaking Until You Find. . . : Thomas And The School Of Oral Mimesis / Arthur J. Dewey -- Discussion And Reflections / Merrill P. Miller -- Part 2: A Jesus School In Jerusalem? -- Proposal For The First Year Of The Seminar / Ron Cameron -- Introduction To The Papers From The First Year Of The Seminar / Ron Cameron -- Acts And The History Of The Earliest Jerusalem Church / Christopher R. Matthews -- Antioch, Paul, And Jerusalem: Diaspora Myths Of Origins In The Homeland / Merrill P. Miller -- What Do We Really Know About The Jerusalem Church? Christian Origins In Jerusalem According To Acts And Paul / Dennis E. Smith -- Jewish Jesus School In Jerusalem? / Burton L. Mack -- History, Historiography, And Christian Origins: The Jerusalem Community / Luther H. Martin -- Agenda For The Annual Meeting, Discussion, And Reflections / Ron Cameron. Part 3: Pre-pauline Christos Association -- Proposal For The Second Year Of The Seminar / Ron Cameron -- Introduction To The Papers From The Second Year Of The Seminar / Ron Cameron -- Problem Of The Origins Of A Messianic Conception Of Jesus / Merrill P. Miller -- Christos As Nickname / Barry S. Crawford -- From Messiahs To Christ: The Pre-pauline Christ Cult In Scholarship / Christopher R. Matthews -- Why Christos? The Social Reasons / Burton L. Mack -- Anointed Jesus / Merrill P. Miller -- Agenda For The Annual Meeting, Discussion, And Reflections / Ron Cameron -- Backbay Jazz And Blues / Burton L. Mack -- Smoke Signals From The North: A Reply To Burton Mack's Backbay Jazz And Blues / Willi Braun -- Issues And Commentary / Ron Cameron And Merrill P. Miller -- Part 4: Metareflections -- Social Formation And Mythmaking: Theses On Key Terms / William E. Arnal And Willi Braun -- Remarkable / Burton L. Mack -- Redescribing Christian Origins: Historiography Or Exegesis? / Luther H. Martin -- Dayyeinu / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Mythmaking, Social Formation, And Varieties Of Social Theory / Stanley K. Stowers -- Conclusion: Redescribing Christian Origins / Ron Cameron And Merrill P. Miller. Edited By Ron Cameron And Merrill P. Miller. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 517-520) And Indexes.

Cameron, Ron; Miller, Merrill P

United States, United States of America

November 1, 2004

xvi, 539 pages ; 23 cm
In 1992, a group of scholars in the Society of Biblical Literature began to explore the prospects and lay the groundwork for a new, collaborative project devoted to the task of re-describing Christian origins. They proposed a two-year Society Consultants on Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins, followed by a six-year seminar focusing both on the diverse myths of origin found in the writings of the earliest Christians, and on competing scholarly theories of explanation and interpretation. The bifocal approach was intended both to explain how and why certain myths got into place, and to clarify alternatives and points of consensus among the different methods and models that are currently being used to describe the beginnings of the Christian religion. They report their results here. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-520) and indexes

Religious scholars continue the effort to describe Christian origins in terms of anthropology, social history, and the human sciences, rather than simply continuing to paraphrase the dominant, essential Lukian, paradigm. They re-examine the categories that have held a privileged place in the scholarly imagination of Christian origins; and develop c

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