Joseph the Carpenter: His Reception in Literature and Art from the Second to the Ninth Century (History of Biblical Interpretation, Band 5) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 4: History of Biblical Interpretation Series

Jacobs, Philip Walker

 
9781905679348: Joseph the Carpenter: His Reception in Literature and Art from the Second to the Ninth Century (History of Biblical Interpretation, Band 5)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1905679343 ISBN 13: 9781905679348
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In this ground-breaking examination of responses to Joseph the Carpenter, Dr. Jacobs offers fresh insight into the historic understanding and perception of this often forgotten figure.

Challenging assumptions about the ways Joseph was understood and perceived in the first several centuries of Christianity, Jacobs begins his study with a thorough review of the earliest narrative portrayals of Joseph in the New Testament. Subsequently, he carefully traces the diverse responses to Joseph through the analysis of numerous works of art and narratives. In the process, he documents the presence of two trajectories: one, the most dominant, which affirms the roles of Joseph presented in the nativity accounts and highlights his significance and, another, which diminishes these roles and, consequently, Joseph's significance.

While Jacobs's study documents the presence of tensions with respect to understanding and perception of Joseph within this period of Christianity, it also reveals that Joseph had much more importance than has previously been acknowledged.

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Verlag
Koninklijke Brill BV
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1905679343
ISBN 13 
9781905679348
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
284
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