Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. The Godman and the Sea : : The Empty Tomb, the Trauma of the Jews, and the Gospel of Mark / / Michael J. Thate.

If scholars no longer necessarily find the essence and origins of what came to be known as Christianity in the personality of a historical figure known as Jesus of Nazareth, it nevertheless remains the case that the study of early Christianity is dominated by an assumption of the force of Jesus'...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Somewhere in the Unfinished: Approaching a Markan Sentiment
  • Chapter 2. On Beginnings and Bodies: Mark, Mythopoesis, and Posttraumatic Social Formations
  • Chapter 3. A Theater for Action: The Social Sea and Mark’s Mythic Crossings
  • Chapter 4. The Memory of Almost Drowning: Hostile Spirits, Slumbering Gods, and Eerie Calms
  • Chapter 5. Binding Boundless Waters? Out of the Tomb and into the Sea
  • Chapter 6. The Enchafèd Sea: Ships of Separation or Trampled Dragons?
  • Chapter 7. Tragic Vision: Toward a Political Sentiment of the Unfinished
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments