Vaage, Leif E.
Columbus, Q and Rome

Reframing Interpretation of the Christian Bible.

The present book brings together under the aegis of the figures of Columbus, Q and Rome three different kinds of essays. Read together, the 14 essays display the logic that would link a cultural history of the Christian Bible in Latin America, historical analysis of the Synoptic Sayings Source, and explanation of the eventual "success" of Christianity within the Roman Empire, as all efforts, first, to displace and, then, to reframe scholarly interpretation of the Christian Bible. Written over the past 20 years in Lima, Perú, and in Toronto, Canada, the essays aim to expose the distinctly modern cultural assumptions often governing historical biblical scholarship as well as to develop alternative perspectives on these topics. -- From the content: 1. Text, Context, Conquest, Quest: The Bible and Social Struggle in Latin America; - 2. Subversive Scriptures: Revolutionary Readings of the Christian Bible in Latin America - Introduction; - 3. Compass, Cannonball, Counterweight, Charter: Toward a Cultural History of the Christian Bible in Latin America; - 4. The Excluded One: (Un) Popular Christology and the Quest for the Historical Jesus in Europe, North America, and Latin America; - 5. Q(1) and the Historical Jesus: Some Peculiar Sayings (7:33-34; 9:57-58, 59-60; 14:26-27); - 6. The Contradictions of Subversive Wisdom: Diogenes of Sinope, Q, and the Living Jesus; - 7. More than a Prophet, and Demon-Possessed: Q and the Historical John; - 8. Q and Cynicism: On Comparison and Social Identity; - 9. Qumran, Q, and the Historical Jesus; - 10. Jewish Scripture, Q, and the Historical Jesus: A Cynic Way with the Word?; - 11. Q, Itinerancy, and Early Christian History; - 12. Beyond Nationalism: Jesus the 'Holy Anarchist'? The Cynic Jesus as Eternal Recurrence of the Repressed; - 13. Ancient Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success: Christians, Jews, and Others in the Early Roman Empire; - 14. Why Christianity Succeeded (in) the Roman Empire. 304 Seiten, broschiert (Stuttgarter Biblische Aufsatzbände; Band 52/Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk 2011) Mängelexemplarstempel und schwarzer Filzstiftstrich auf Schnitt, Schnitt stellenweise leicht nachgedunkelt/defect copy stamp and felt pen mark on on cut, book cut darkened in places