Commemorative Identities: Jewish Social Memory and the Johannine Feast of Booths
Commemorative Identities represents a significantly new approach to the issue of replacement/abrogation vs. continuation of Jewish thought patterns and practices among Jewish Christ-followers as they are addressed by the Johannine author. Previous studies have been unable to elucidate a comprehensible argument to support continuation of commemoration in the face of explicit Temple replacement terminology in the Gospel.

This study provides that argument based upon known sociological observations and models, and direct comparative analysis with Jewish practices pre- and post-70. Mary Spaulding's study will further invigorate scholarly debate concerning identity issues in the Fourth Gospel, a topic of significant interest among Johannine scholars today. More generally, the origins of Christianity as portrayed in the Gospel of John are understood as a gradual unfolding of and differentiation among various Jewish groups post-Second Temple rather than as an abrupt break from an established, normative Judaism.

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Commemorative Identities: Jewish Social Memory and the Johannine Feast of Booths
Commemorative Identities represents a significantly new approach to the issue of replacement/abrogation vs. continuation of Jewish thought patterns and practices among Jewish Christ-followers as they are addressed by the Johannine author. Previous studies have been unable to elucidate a comprehensible argument to support continuation of commemoration in the face of explicit Temple replacement terminology in the Gospel.

This study provides that argument based upon known sociological observations and models, and direct comparative analysis with Jewish practices pre- and post-70. Mary Spaulding's study will further invigorate scholarly debate concerning identity issues in the Fourth Gospel, a topic of significant interest among Johannine scholars today. More generally, the origins of Christianity as portrayed in the Gospel of John are understood as a gradual unfolding of and differentiation among various Jewish groups post-Second Temple rather than as an abrupt break from an established, normative Judaism.

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Commemorative Identities: Jewish Social Memory and the Johannine Feast of Booths

Commemorative Identities: Jewish Social Memory and the Johannine Feast of Booths

Commemorative Identities: Jewish Social Memory and the Johannine Feast of Booths

Commemorative Identities: Jewish Social Memory and the Johannine Feast of Booths

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Commemorative Identities represents a significantly new approach to the issue of replacement/abrogation vs. continuation of Jewish thought patterns and practices among Jewish Christ-followers as they are addressed by the Johannine author. Previous studies have been unable to elucidate a comprehensible argument to support continuation of commemoration in the face of explicit Temple replacement terminology in the Gospel.

This study provides that argument based upon known sociological observations and models, and direct comparative analysis with Jewish practices pre- and post-70. Mary Spaulding's study will further invigorate scholarly debate concerning identity issues in the Fourth Gospel, a topic of significant interest among Johannine scholars today. More generally, the origins of Christianity as portrayed in the Gospel of John are understood as a gradual unfolding of and differentiation among various Jewish groups post-Second Temple rather than as an abrupt break from an established, normative Judaism.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780567692009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/19/2019
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

The Rev. Dr. Mary B. Spaulding has been an adjunct instructor in Biblical Studies and Hebrew for two Colorado Springs Bible colleges and two seminaries, Fuller Theological Seminary in Colorado and Denver Seminary. Ordained in the Church of the Nazarene in 2002, she earned a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the University of Manchester/Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, England, in 2007. In addition to her teaching assignments in America, she has taught biblical subjects for colleges in Eastern Europe, the South Pacific, and Africa.



Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Methodology



Chapter 3: Literature Review

Chapter 4: Jewish Festivals in the Late Second Temple and Tannaitic Periods



Chapter 5: Prelude to the Feast of Booths in the Gospel of John

Chapter 6: The Feast of Booths in the Gospel of John



Chapter 7: Conclusion

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