Search for dissertations about: "crucifixion"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word crucifixion.

  2. 1. Crucifixion in Antiquity : An Inquiry into the Background of the New Testament Terminology of Crucifixion

    Author : Gunnar Samuelsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; crucifixion; cross; death of Jesus; Bible; New Testament; church; Christianity; philology; semantics; Jesus; execution; death sentence; impaling; suspension punishment; Golgotha; Calvary; ancient language; classical languages; Classical Greek; Latin; Hebrew Aramaic; ancient Greece; Roman empire; Roman world; Jerusalem;

    Abstract : This study investigates the philological aspects of how ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew/Aramaic texts, including the New Testament, depict the practice of punishment by crucifixion. A survey of the ancient text material shows that there has been a too narrow view of the “crucifixion” terminology. READ MORE

  4. 2. Rethinking the Gospel of Truth : A Study of its Eastern Valentinian Setting

    Author : Jörgen Magnusson; Gabriella Gustafsson; Anders Hultgård; Birger Pearson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Truth; Nag Hammadi; Valentinianism; Gnostic; Gnosticism; early Christianity; Coptic; history of religions; text linguistics; late Antiquity; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Abstract : Already in the second century, the Church Father Irenaeus warned against reading the Gospel of Truth that was used among the so-called Valentinians. For more than one and a half millennium GospTruth was lost until in the 1950s a Coptic text was discovered that could be a translation of that work both loved and hated. READ MORE

  5. 3. A Beautiful Failure : The Event of Death and Rhetorical Disorder in the Gospel according to Mark

    Author : Joel Kuhlin; Bibelvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Death of Jesus; he Gospel according to Mark; Mk 15:6–39; Papias of Hierapolis; Progymnasmata; rhetoric; failure hamartêma ; narrative διήγησις; diêgêsis ; taxis τάξις ; lexis λέξις ; ; disorder; social death; The Logic of Sense; Gilles Deleuze; event; ataxia; diêgêma διήγημα ; chreia χρεία ; parataxis; paradox; parable; Franz Kafka; Der Prozeß; Josef K.; suspension-execution σταυροῦν: staurôn ; suspension-pole σταυρός: stauros ; Aelius Theon; dianoia διάνοια ; Francis Bacon;

    Abstract : Is there beauty in rhetorical failure? This study is an exploration of disorder and death in the Gospel according to Mark (Mk). With a surviving fragment from the second-century theologian Papias of Hierapolis, the early reception of Mk locates insights into the composition of Jesus’s death, especially through the concepts of ataxia and rhetorical failure. READ MORE