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Pseudo-Clementine Writings as Evidence of Friendship, Christian Community, and Polemics in the Early Church

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2021
This study focuses on the Pseudo-Clementine writings as examples of Jewish-Christian literature between the second and fourth centuries CE. In view of their mutual antagonism and friendship, it interprets them as an attempt at orthodoxy, an instance of ...
Jiří Hoblík
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A socio-scientific reading of John 4: Lessons for the Zimbabwean Adventist church

Verbum et Ecclesia
The article explores Jesus’ interaction with the Samaritan woman in John 4 to uncover his inclusive perception of mission and the criteria for participation.
Tendai Takawira, Mphumezi Hombana
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The intimate and ultimate adversary: Satanology in early second-century Christian literature

, 2018
Much scholarship has recently been done on the Satanology (Satan-concept) of New Testament books or writers. This study attends to the Satanology of early “non-canonical” Christian writings, which have been comparatively under-researched.
Farrar, Thomas J
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Apocalyptic Literature and the Study of Early Jewish Mysticism [PDF]

, 2014
This chapter examines apocalyptic literature within the framework of “early Jewish mysticism” and compares early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings with rabbinic and Hekhalot materials.
Ra\'anan Boustan, Patrick McCullough
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Jewish Anti-Christian Polemical Treatises in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe: Where are They?

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2018
Jewish anti-Christian polemical treatises comprise a well-known genre in medieval Jewish literature. It is generally thought that these books were written in response to Christian missionary pressure.
Daniel J. Lasker
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FREUDIAN COMPLEXES OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET PHILOLOGY IN STUDYING THE GOSPEL TEXT IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE [PDF]

Проблемы исторической поэтики, 2012
The article looks at a number of marginal concepts of Freudian theory and at his articles on Dostoevsky that revealed the 'cultural unconscious' of the founder of psychoanalysis.
Ivan Andreevich Esaulov
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The Influence of Mother Wisdom on Augustine

Open Theology, 2021
The Book of Ben Sira was popular in the early Christian church and influenced the Church Father Augustine (354–430). He adopts the person of Wisdom as a divine mother and adapts her within the context of the early Christian church.
Bouwman Kitty
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The Wisdom Tradition in Early Christianity through Late Antiquity [PDF]

, 2020
This is a chapter surveying and introducing the wisdom tradition within early Christian literature from its beginnings through late ...
Bay, Carson, Carson Bay
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Noah, the ark, and the flood in early Christian literature [PDF]

, 2014
Please cite as follows:Wilson, M. 2014. Noah, the ark, and the flood in early Christian literature. Scriptura, 113(1): 1-12, doi:10.7833/113-0-910.The original publication is available at http://scriptura.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/910This article ...
Wilson, Mark
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Early Christian Involvement in Classcial Education, Literature and Philosophy

, 2023
This book chapter outlines early Christian involvement in Classical education, literature and philosophy from the first to the third centuries CE. It discusses in particular the teacher-student model as the guiding relationship-model at the root of early
Lossl, Josef
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