Christ Child : cultural memories of a young Jesus /

Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. How would early readers have made sense of this young Jesus? In this highly innovative book, Stephen Davis draws on current theories about how human communities...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Stephen J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Connecticut] ; London [England] : Yale University Press, 2014.
Colección:Synkrisis : Comparative Approaches to Early Christianity in Greco-Roman Culture
Temas:
Jesus Christ > Childhood and youth
Jesus Christ
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > History & Culture.
Childhood and youth of a person
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One: Methods and Approaches
  • 1. Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus
  • 2. Texts and Readers
  • Part Two: Graeco-Roman Sites of Memory
  • 3. Bird-Watching
  • 4. Cursing
  • 5. Learning Letters
  • Part Three: Christian-Jewish-Muslim Encounters
  • 6. Jews and Christians
  • 7. Muslims and Christians
  • Epilogue: Reimagining a Young Jesus
  • Appendix A: The Greek Paidika
  • Appendix B: The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy, Chapters 36- 53
  • Appendix C: Jesus and the Birds in St. Martin's Church, Zillis, Switzerland
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Editions, Collections, Objects, and Translations
  • Secondary Literature
  • Index

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