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The world of Jesus and the early church : identity and interpretation in early communities of faith / Craig A. Evans, editor.

Contributor(s): Evans, Craig A
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xvi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781598568257 (alk. paper); 1598568256 (alk. paper)Other title: Identity and interpretation in early communities of faithSubject(s): Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses | Qumran community -- Congresses | Dead Sea scrolls -- Relation to the New Testament -- Congresses | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses | Christian antiquities -- CongressesDDC classification: 270.1/0901 LOC classification: BR165 | .W77 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-244) and indexes.
Contents:
Site of Qumran and the sectarian communities in the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins -- From the earthly to the heavenly temple : lines from the Bible and Qumran to Hebrews and Revelation / Torleif Elgvin -- Scrolls and the scriptures on the margins : remembered in canons or forgotten in caves / Dorothy M. Peters -- Disputed issues in the study of cities, villages, and the economy in Jesus' Galilee / Mark A. Chancey -- Children in house churches in light of new research on families in the Roman world / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- Family buried together stays together : on the burial of the executed in family tombs / Craig A. Evans -- Trial of Jesus at the Jerusalem Praetorium : new archaeological evidence / Shimon Gibson -- Dead Sea scrolls and the interpretation of Scripture / George J. Brooke -- Excavating ideas : the Qumran scrolls of Samuel / Keith Bodner -- Oldest attested Hebrew scriptures and the Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription / Stephen J. Andrews -- Biblia Hebraica quinta / James A. Sanders -- What do the earliest Christian manuscripts tell us about their readers? / Larry Hurtado -- Bold claims, wishful thinking, and lessons about dating manuscripts from Papyrus Egerton 2 / Paul Foster.

Proceedings from a series of symposia, held respectively at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-244) and indexes.

Site of Qumran and the sectarian communities in the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins -- From the earthly to the heavenly temple : lines from the Bible and Qumran to Hebrews and Revelation / Torleif Elgvin -- Scrolls and the scriptures on the margins : remembered in canons or forgotten in caves / Dorothy M. Peters -- Disputed issues in the study of cities, villages, and the economy in Jesus' Galilee / Mark A. Chancey -- Children in house churches in light of new research on families in the Roman world / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- Family buried together stays together : on the burial of the executed in family tombs / Craig A. Evans -- Trial of Jesus at the Jerusalem Praetorium : new archaeological evidence / Shimon Gibson -- Dead Sea scrolls and the interpretation of Scripture / George J. Brooke -- Excavating ideas : the Qumran scrolls of Samuel / Keith Bodner -- Oldest attested Hebrew scriptures and the Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription / Stephen J. Andrews -- Biblia Hebraica quinta / James A. Sanders -- What do the earliest Christian manuscripts tell us about their readers? / Larry Hurtado -- Bold claims, wishful thinking, and lessons about dating manuscripts from Papyrus Egerton 2 / Paul Foster.

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