Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom: The Didaches Meal Ritual and its Place in Ear remises

Product Name: Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom: The Didaches Meal Ritual and its Place in Ear remises
Brand：T&T Clark Publication Date：01-10-2008 Country of Origin：USA, United States Net Quantity/Number of Units：1 Dimensions LxWxH - Cms：6.14X0.69X9.21 ISBN-10：0567045757 ISBN-13：9780567045751 SKU：DADAX0567045757 No of Pages：304 Type：Books Release Title：Knowledge and the remises Coming Kingdom: The Didaches Meal Ritual and i ISBN：9780567045751
Product Description : Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom: The Didaches Meal Ritual and its Place in Early Christianity (The Library of New Testament St," Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom is a study of the meal prayers of Didache 910. The opening chapters pursue a sustained argument regarding the relationship between the Didaches meal ritual and the wellknown tradition of Jesus final meal. The central goal of this argument is to clarify that the silence of the Didaches prayers regarding Jesus sacrificial death is neither trivial nor the result of textual accident, but is instead tied up with how this ritual works as a ritual.Schwiebert aims to counter a weighty tradition of reading the Didaches testimony in light of the New Testament accounts, and so to free the tradition to become an analytical reference point for a consideration of Christian origins. En route to this goal, ritual theory serves as an ally that offers insights into the workings of a uniquely attested ritual. Having isolated the Didaches tradition in this way, he then examines its original milieu, arguing for a branch of the Jesus movement that held to Jesus teachings as a privileged form of knowledge even while they affirmed the futurity of Gods kingdom and their own (eschatological) existence. From this point, he reassesses the various potential parallels to the Didaches prayers, and their degree of sympathy with this ritual form, to reconstruct a trajectory of the rituals influence in early Christianity. The clues are traced to Egypt, where (as elsewhere) they finally lead to the loss of this ritual form, often for identifiable reasons..