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Conflicting Mythologies
John K. Riches
其他書名
Identity Formation in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew
出版A&C Black, 2006-06-23
主題Religion / Christian Theology / AnthropologyReligion / General
ISBN05670427159780567042712
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6NRrUMkZJZoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A cultural and anthropological interpretation of Mark and Matthew which examines their contribution to the formation of early Christian identity, world-view and ethos.

John Riches studies the notions of sacred space and ethnicity in the Gospel narratives. He shows how early Christian group identity emerged through a dynamic process of reshaping traditional Jewish symbols and motifs associated with descent, kinship and territory. Ideas about descent from Abraham and the return from exile to Mount Zion are interwoven into early Christian traditions about Jesus and in the process substantially reshaped to produce different senses of identity.

At the same time, he argues, the Evangelists were attempting to set forth a view of the world in a dialogue with the two opposing cosmologies current in Jewish culture of the time: one, cosmic dualist, the other, forensic. Riches shows how these two very different accounts of the irigin and final overcoming of evil both inform Mark and Latthew's narratives and contribute to the richness and ambiguity of the texts and of the communities which sprang up around them.