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Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity (Ekstasis, Volume 1)
Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity (Ekstasis, Volume 1) Summary:By Turid Karlsen Seim
How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming ""a new being"" were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being observed, noted and asserted. The focus on transformation helps to connect topics that tend to be studied separately, such as cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, and conversion. The textual material is wide-ranging and there are new readings of core passages. Ideas and experiences of transformations in early Christianity and early Judaism Connects topics that tend to be studied seperately (cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, conversion) With wide-ranging textual material Contents Turid Karlsen Seim and Jorunn Økland Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Turid Karlsen Seim The Resurrected Body in Luke-Acts: The Significance of Space . . . 19 Adela Yarbro Collins Ancient Notions of Transferal and Apotheosis in Relation to the Empty Tomb Story in Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Karen L. King “In your midst as a child” – “In the form of an old man” Images of Aging and Immortality in Ancient Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Jorunn Økland Genealogies of the Self: Materiality, Personal Identity, and the Body in Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Vigdis Songe-Møller “With What Kind of Body Will They Come?” Metamorphosis and the Concept of Change: From Platonic Thinking to Paul´s Notion of the Resurrection of the Dead . . . . . . . 109 Troels Engberg-Pedersen Complete and Incomplete Transformation in Paul – a Philosophical Reading of Paul on Body and Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Outi Lehtipuu “Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God:” The Transformation of the Flesh in the Early Christian Debates Concerning Resurrection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Einar Thomassen Valentinian Ideas About Salvation as Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 VI Contents Hugo Lundhaug “These are the Symbols and Likenesses of the Resurrection”: Conceptualizations of Death and Transformation in the Treatise on the Resurrection (NHC I,4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 István Czachesz Metamorphosis and Mind Cognitive Explorations of the Grotesque in Early Christian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Antti Marjanen Male Women Martyrs: The Function of Gender-Transformation Language in Early Christian Martyrdom Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Denise Kimber Buell Imagining Human Transformation in the Context of Invisible Powers: Instrumental Agency in Second-Century Treatments of Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Samuel Rubenson “As Already Translated to the Kingdom While Still in the Body” The Transformation of the Ascetic in Early Egyptian Monasticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 John J. Collins The Angelic Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Liv Ingeborg Lied Recognizing the Righteous Remnant? Resurrection, Recognition and Eschatological Reversals in 2 Baruch 47-52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 Indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Index of References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Index of Modern Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 Index of Subjects and Persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Introduction TURID KARLSEN SEIM AND JORUNN ØKLAND In this volume we explore how ideas and experiences of transformation were expressed in early Christianity, asking the following questions: In which ways and to which extent did the faith in an individual resurrection accommodate processes of transformation? What were the frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and also experiences of having become "a new being" were shaped? Which analogies did they refer to, and what were the parameters by which transformation was noted and actually asserted? How did taxonomic patterns, that is constructions of an ordered design of the created world, accommodate or challenge transformative movements? The focus on transformation helps connect various topics that so far have been studied separately or from the perspective of a particular discipline or selection of sources. In addressing the questions, we draw on the rich diversity of Christian and Jewish groups and beliefs and discover ever again that, even in controversy, the boundaries between them are often blurred and porous. While taking chronology into account, we hesitate to speak of development in evolutionary terms. Since the religious, philosophical and cultural environment was significant for the formation and articulation of their beliefs, we examine how they depended upon and actively exploited existing forms of thought, speech and behavior – that is how they yielded to given discourses while slowly establishing new ones. The establishment of new forms of behavior means that it was possible to connect faith in resurrection and ethical ideas and practices pertaining to a new life. What we learned is laid out in the many essays that constitute the corpus of this volume. They speak for themselves but are briefly introduced in the outline below. It is, however, necessary in this introduction to comment more comprehensively on the broader framework of metamorphosis. In addition we have to reflect on the fact that the trans- formation of gender plays less of a role in this volume than one might have hoped or planned (see separate section below). NEWER EBOOKS
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