Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity

Published by De Gruyter 2009

Metamorphoses

Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity

Edited by: Turid Karlsen Seim and Jorunn Økland

Volume 1 in the series Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110202991

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

Turid Karlsen Seim, Norwegian Institute in Rome, University of Oslo, Norway; Jorunn Økland, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Sheffield, UK.

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Introduction Turid Karlsen Seim and Jorunn Økland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Resurrected Body in Luke-Acts: The Significance of Space Turid Karlsen Seim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Ancient Notions of Transferal and Apotheosis in Relation to the Empty Tomb Story in Mark Adela Yarbro Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
“In your midst as a child” – “In the form of an old man” Images of Aging and Immortality in Ancient Christianity Karen L. King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Genealogies of the Self: Materiality, Personal Identity, and the Body in Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians Jorunn Økland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
“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 Vigdis Songe-Møller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Complete and Incomplete Transformation in Paul – a Philosophical Reading of Paul on Body and Spirit Troels Engberg-Pedersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
“Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God:” The Transformation of the Flesh in the Early Christian Debates Concerning Resurrection Outi Lehtipuu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Valentinian Ideas About Salvation as Transformation Einar Thomassen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
“These are the Symbols and Likenesses of the Resurrection”: Conceptualizations of Death and Transformation in the Treatise on the Resurrection (NHC I,4) Hugo Lundhaug Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Metamorphosis and Mind Cognitive Explorations of the Grotesque in Early Christian Literature István Czachesz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Male Women Martyrs: The Function of Gender-Transformation Language in Early Christian Martyrdom Accounts Antti Marjanen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Imagining Human Transformation in the Context of Invisible Powers: Instrumental Agency in Second-Century Treatments of Conversion Denise Kimber Buell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
“As Already Translated to the Kingdom While Still in the Body” The Transformation of the Ascetic in Early Egyptian Monasticism Samuel Rubenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
The Angelic Life John J. Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Recognizing the Righteous Remnant? Resurrection, Recognition and Eschatological Reversals in 2 Baruch 47-52 Liv Ingeborg Lied Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 401
Keywords: Judaism; Early Christianity; Transformation; Resurrection

eBook

Published: May 5, 2009
ISBN: 9783110202991

Hardcover

Published: May 20, 2009
ISBN: 9783110202984