scholarly journals The social setting of Jesus’ exaltation in Luke-Acts (Lk 22:69 and Ac 7:56)

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Social Turmoil ◽  
A Current

This article presents a model for “intercultural exegesis” and applies this model to Luke 22:69 and Acts 7:56. In this process, the term “Son of Man” is approached from two perspectives: that of a biblical culture in the first century Graeco-Roman world, and that of a current Christian culture in Africa. The study concludes that the “Son of Man” concept in the selected texts not only includes a reference to the eschatological saviour, judge and defender, but also creates a sense of Jesus’ solidarity with his fellow human beings. Such an understanding would certainly have led to Jesus’ exaltation by his followers, who lived under conditions of social turmoil in the Graeco-Roman world of the first century, and would lead to such an exaltation by those who experience similar circumstances in Africa today.

The Property Species

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Symbolic Thought ◽  
Core Property ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

What is property, and why does our species happen to have it? The Property Species explores how Homo sapiens acquires, perceives, and knows the custom of property, and why it might be relevant for understanding how property works in the twenty-first century. Arguing from some hard-to-dispute facts that neither the natural sciences nor the humanities—nor the social sciences squarely in the middle—are synthesizing a full account of property, this book offers a cross-disciplinary compromise that is sure to be controversial: All human beings and only human beings have property in things, and at its core, property rests on custom, not rights. Such an alternative to conventional thinking contends that the origins of property lie not in food, mates, territory, or land, but in the very human act of creating, with symbolic thought, something new that did not previously exist. Integrating cognitive linguistics with the philosophy of property and a fresh look at property disputes in the common law, this book makes the case that symbolic-thinking humans locate the meaning of property within a thing. The provocative implications are that property—not property rights—is an inherent fundamental principle of economics, and that legal realists and the bundle-of-sticks metaphor are wrong about the facts regarding property. Written by an economist who marvels at the natural history of humankind, the book is essential reading for experts and any reader who has wondered why people claim things as “Mine!,” and what that means for our humanity.

scholarly journals A reading of the leper’s healing in Matthew 8:1–4 through ethnomedical anthropology

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fednand M. M’bwangi
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Healing ◽  
Healing Narrative

Scholars offer several options for Matthew’s value of the leper’s story in his narrative that range from revealing Jesus’ attributes of compassion and sympathy, manifesting God’s empire, to portraying Jesus’ function as a temple. Although these suggestions aptly portray Matthew’s rhetorical use of the leper’s healing in his narrative to address societal concerns of his time, for lack of referring to the social setting of the narrative, they do not capture the holistic healthcare system embodied by Jesus in Matthew’s narrative that portrays Jesus as a superior healer to the rest of the other healers in the Roman Empire. The findings of the research for this article establish the argument that employing ethnomedical anthropology as a lens to read the leper’s healing narrative in Matthew 8:1–4 in the context of Matthew’s social setting reveals Matthew’s ideology for a transcendent and immanent Christology. The aim of the article is to demonstrate the effectiveness of medical anthropological theory in explaining the dynamics of health and healing reflected in biblical texts.Contributions: This article contributes to the interdisciplinary approach to the study of religion by employing a ethnomedical anthropological perspective to read the leper’s healing in Matthew 8.1–4 in reference to the first century CE health systems in the Roman Empire. This approach procured that Matthew’s immanent and transcendent perspectives of Christology is crucial in demonstrating the text’s function in constructing and sustaining the identity of Matthew’s community in antiquity.

On the Social Setting of the Revelation to John

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Slater
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Convictions

Revisionists have argued that no empire-wide persecution of Christians occurred in the late first century and that Domitian was neither a persecutor of Christians nor an evil, incompetent ruler. This essay agrees with those points but also argues that a closer examination of extant Roman and Christian late first/early second century writers demonstrates that Christians were held in low esteem and suffered in Roman society because of their religious convictions. This study argues that Revelation was a Christian response to religio-political pressures by indigenous Asian pagans upon Christians to conform to traditional social practices in Roman Asia.

scholarly journals Komunitas Pengabdi Seni Musik Tradisional Karinding di Kampung Jaha Tangerang

Simulacra ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyas Siti Nur Asiyah ◽  
Musahwi Musahwi
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Musical Works

<em>The existence of music as a representation of traditional culture increasingly doubted by various parties. Especially when he has to deal with international music that has a modern genre. In Indonesia, in line with today's global culture, traditional music is slowly being forgotten. Even considered the music peripheral by his own generation because it is not in line with the latest music trends. Is a community of Barak Karinding that plays traditional musical instruments Karinding typical Sundanese, they try to fight the flow. It is important to be studied with regard to the understanding of Karinding musical art, as well as the social values of humanity (local wisdom) that they stretcher in daily life amid the onslaught of global music products today. The type of this research is qualitative, by trying to describe the phenomenon naturally based on the social setting as it is. The results of this study describes among others: a) Karinding music has value, Belief, Patience, Conscious. As a universal message of their music. b) loving art is loving humanity. That is, musical works are not created for the interests of the market as the mindstream of music today, but to develop constructive human beings.</em>

The Political and Aesthetic Power of the Everyday in Beckett's Happy Days

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-66
Author(s):  
Julie Bates
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Last Man ◽  
Second World

Happy Days is contemporaneous with a number of seminal contributions to the concept of the everyday in postwar France. This essay suggests that the increasingly constrained verbal and physical routines performed by its protagonist Winnie constitute a portrait of the everyday, and goes on to trace the affinities between Beckett's portrait and several formulations of the concept, with particular emphasis on the pronounced gendering of the everyday in many of these theories. The essay suggests the aerial bombings of the Second World War and methods of torture during the Algerian War as potential influences for Beckett's play, and draws a comparison with Marlen Haushofer's 1963 novel The Wall, which reimagines the Romantic myth of The Last Man as The Last Woman. It is significant, however, that the cataclysmic event that precedes the events of Happy Days remains unnamed. This lack of specificity, I suggest, is constitutive of the menace of the play, and has ensured that the political as well as aesthetic power of Happy Days has not dated. Indeed, the everyday of its sentinel figure posted in a blighted landscape continues to articulate the fears of audiences, for whom the play may resonate today as a staging of twenty-first century anxiety about environmental crisis. The essay concludes that in Happy Days we encounter an isolated female protagonist who contrives from scant material resources and habitual bodily rhythms a shelter within a hostile environment, who generates, in other words, an everyday despite the shattering of the social and temporal framework that conventionally underpin its formation. Beckett's play in this way demonstrates the political as well as aesthetic power of the everyday in a time of crisis.

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