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Insights and models from medical anthropology for understanding the healing activity of the Historical Jesus
No full textThis essay sketches a basic introdution to medical anthropology as a key to understanding and interpreting the healing activity of the historical Jesus described in the gospels. It presents select literature, leading experts, fundamental concepts, and insights and models of special value to biblical specialists. Only a cross-cultural discipline like medical anthropology allows the investigator to interpret texts and events from other cultures with respect for their distinctive cultural contexts in order to draw more appropriate conclusions and applications in other cultures. Applications to biblical texts are not included in this essay but may be found in other articles published by the author and listed in the bibliography
Bruce J. Malina, John J. Pilch, Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Acts, Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2008
No full textGerber Daniel. Bruce J. Malina, John J. Pilch, Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Acts, Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2008. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 90e année n°3, Juillet-Septembre 2010. p. 424
Paul’s ecstatic trance experience near Damascus in Acts of the Apostles
No full textLuke reports more than twenty altered states of consciousness experiences in Acts of the Apostles. These are common and normal human experiences in approximately ninety percent of contemporary cultures. In the ancient Circum-Mediterranean world, it seems to have been common and normal in about eighty percent of those cultures. Insights from psychological anthropology, cultural anthropology and cognitive neuroscience contribute to an improved understanding
and interpretation of these experiences in the Bible, particularly the call of Paul as reported in Acts 9; 22; 26
Paul’s call to be a holy man (apostle): In his own words and in other words
No full textThis brief survey and analysis of the statements made by Paul about his experience of God calling him to be an apostle in Galatians 1:15-16; 1 Corinth 15:8-9; 2 Corinth 4:6; and Philippians 3:12 were chiefly conducted from an intentionally limited social science perspective. The article argues that the investigator can gain deeper insights into Paul’s statements “in his own words” by submitting them to a social scientific analysis especially drawing upon psychological anthropology and cognitive neuroscience. These social sciences demonstrate that Paul’s call was received in an altered state of consciousness experience. As with all such experiences, Paul drew upon the latent discourse of his culture to interpret his vision. It was God’s intent and initiative to relate to Paul (Galatians) in an ASC. Paul considered his call experience and commission to be on par with experiences of the Risen Jesus by others (1 Corinthians). Paul also drew upon the full meaning of light imagery in his tradition (his culture’s latent discourse) to interpret his call (2 Corinthians). Finally, he was fully aware that his experience took place in an altered state of consciousness (Philippians) which was a well-known and familiar experience in his culture
Are there Jews and Christians in the Bible?
No full textThe article shows that it is anachronistic to speak of either 'Christians' or 'Jews' in the biblical period. In the New Testament both 'Words are used pejoratively by outsiders. However, it became appropriate to speak of 'Jews' when referring to the period of Rabbinic Judaism onwards, and of 'Christians' since the christological debates of the fourth century C E. 'Israel' was the in-group name during the Second Temple period. Outsiders, like the Romans, called the entire land 'Judea' and all its inhabitants 'Judeans'. Members of the 'house of Israel' called all outsiders 'non-Israel' or 'the nations'. The article concludes with a discussion of the ancient point of view of labeling persons
The wisdom of Ben Sira in MENA cultural context : a cultural topical index
No full textDr J.J. Pilch, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, died on Friday 22 July 2016.Prof. Dr John Pilch
participated in the research
project, ‘Biblical Theology
and Hermeneutics’, directed
by Prof. Dr Andries van
Aarde, professor emeritus
and senior research fellow in
the Faculty of Theology of
the University of Pretoria,
South Africa.The biblical Books of Proverbs and Ben Sira (Sirach; Ecclesiasticus) yield no narrative continuity
or logical outline. They are simply collections. The best way to interpret these books is with the
aid of a topical index. Most topical indexes are based on English (or another language)
translation. This article proposes a tentative topical index reflecting Middle East North African
culture and its values. It will serve as the outline for a full length commentary already in
process.http://www.hts.org.zaam2016New Testament Studie
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Postcards (from) Cracow? : a picture of a city in literary columns and diares by Jerzy Pilch
No full textPilch’s prose aspects described in the article, which by definition should be authentic, but where is no possibility to demarcate the border between the reality and the fiction, present the dismembered image of Cracow. Because of Pilch’s narrative techniques and points of view, Cracow is disintegrated. Jerzy Pilch in his short narratives observes realitv and its elements in the microscale. J
This article tries to describe Cracow’s phenomenon (Cracow created by Pilch) in its heterogeneity. But Cracow (alone, itself) is never the ultimate arrival point, it manifests itself to the reader, is experienced by the reader, in the network of meanings
Bruce J. Malina, John J. Pilch, “Social-Science Commentary on the Deutero-Pauline Letters”, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2013.
No full textBruce Malina and John Pilch, known for their social-scientific approach of the New Testament and early Christianity propose here a third commentary in the Social-Science Commentary series, following that on the Book of Revelation (2003) and on the letters of Paul (2006). The commentary on the Deutero-Pauline epistles (Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, the Pastoral Epistles and Hebrews) analyses the social setting of Jesus-groups in Western Asia Minor in antiquity, also engaging contemporary anthropological studies
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