Identities of the Dead in the New Testament

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
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Author: Hans Ulrich Hauenstein ISBN: 9783640375967
Publisher: GRIN Publishing Publication: July 17, 2009
Imprint: GRIN Publishing Language: English
Author: Hans Ulrich Hauenstein
ISBN: 9783640375967
Publisher: GRIN Publishing
Publication: July 17, 2009
Imprint: GRIN Publishing
Language: English

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - Miscellaneous, grade: 72/100, University of Bath, language: English, abstract: The New Testament (NT) is a collection of texts produced and received in a complex first century Near Eastern and Mediterranean world linked with Jewish tradition and 'pagan' Hellenistic culture. In this world, as today, people died and were buried and mourned. The question asked in this essay is what we can learn about the ways the identity of the deceased was conceived of in the NT world. By analysing NT texts and linking the results with contextual cultural and social factors, facets of this identity can be found that, however, cannot be harmonised within a closed theoretical framework. This mirrors the divergent worlds and worldviews that shaped even the earliest Christian Church. The archaeological findings imply that in a contemporary cultural perspective the first deceased Christians' identity was mainly a Jewish one. Any further differentiations and extrapolations have to be read against this background.

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Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - Miscellaneous, grade: 72/100, University of Bath, language: English, abstract: The New Testament (NT) is a collection of texts produced and received in a complex first century Near Eastern and Mediterranean world linked with Jewish tradition and 'pagan' Hellenistic culture. In this world, as today, people died and were buried and mourned. The question asked in this essay is what we can learn about the ways the identity of the deceased was conceived of in the NT world. By analysing NT texts and linking the results with contextual cultural and social factors, facets of this identity can be found that, however, cannot be harmonised within a closed theoretical framework. This mirrors the divergent worlds and worldviews that shaped even the earliest Christian Church. The archaeological findings imply that in a contemporary cultural perspective the first deceased Christians' identity was mainly a Jewish one. Any further differentiations and extrapolations have to be read against this background.

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