T.H. Wright

Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts as Crisis Management Literature: Thematic Studies from the Centre for Early Christian Studies - The Library of New Testament Studies T.H. Wright

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2012.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; 8; This volume demonstrates how many religious texts are tailored to the specific requirements of an ancient audience, and may focus on specific events or crises.. Brief Description: This volume demonstrates how many religious texts are tailored to the specific requirements of an Ancient audience, and may focus on specific events or crises. Biographical Note: David C. Sim is Associate Professor in Theology at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. Professor Pauline Allen is Research Associate at theUniversity of Pretoria in South Africa. Table of Contents: Introduction Pauline AllenPart I: Jewish TextsChapter 1: Living under Foreign Rule: Josephus on the Art of Compromised Defiance, James S. McLarenChapter 2: Coping with the Present by Reinventing the Future: Apocalyptic Texts as Crisis Management Literature David C. SimPart II: New Testament TextsChapter 3: Fighting on all Fronts: Crisis Management in the Gospel of Matthew David C. Sim Chapter 4: Luke-Acts and the World Stage: Crisis Strategies in the Lukan Double Work Elizabeth DowlingChapter 5: Nicodemus: Discovering Possibilities in a Time of Crisis in the Gospel of John Mary ColoeChapter 6: Setting the Record Straight in Galatia: Paul's Use of the Letter as a Crisis Management Tool Ian J. ElmerChapter 7: Death as Social Disintegration: Pauline Strategies of Eschatological Existence in 1 Thessalonians David LuckensmeyerPart III: Late Antique Christian TextsChapter 8: The Letters of John Chrysostom as Evidence of Episcopal Crisis Management Wendy MayerChapter 9: The Roman Response to the Ecclesiastical Crises in the Antiochene Church in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries Geoffrey D. DunnChapter 10: Cyril of Alexandria's Responses to Crisis: The Evidence of His Festal Letters Pauline AllenChapter 11: Leo the Great's Use of Social Exclusion as a Response to Crisis Bronwen NeilChapter 12: Response Strategies to Crisis in the Letters of Fulgentius of Ruspe Stephen LakeConclusions David C. Sim

Contributor Bio:  Sim, David C David C. Sim is Associate Professor in Theology at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. Contributor Bio:  Allen, Pauline Pauline Allen is Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University (ACU), and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria. She has written extensively on the christological controversies of the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries, with recent translation volumes of the letters and other writings of Severus of Antioch and Sophronius of Jerusalem. Apart from two volumes co-authored with Bronwen Neil (see above), her most recent work, co-authored with Wendy Mayer, is The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300 638 CE) (2012).