By Luke Timothy Johnson
Luke Timothy Johnson does it back. This such a lot artistic and discovered interpreter of latest testomony and early church background demanding situations his readers to take advantage of 4 new interpretive different types to discover Jewish, Christian, and Gentile faith. Scales fall from readers' eyes as they see frequent texts in intriguing and incredible new methods. for instance, why should still or not it's dazzling that new converts in Galatia desired to upload circumcision to baptism? in any case, the spiritual practices with which they have been normal invited deeper degrees of initiation.
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60 If religion is the organization of life around the percep tion of ultimate power, then Ael ius Aristides is an invaluable witness to Greco-Roman religion. 61 The religious character of the traditions associated with Pythagoras and Epicurus, which originated before the period under study but continued to exist and exert influence, is patent. 62 Disciples of each sage memorized their sayings as a guide to purification or as a prophylactic against fear,63 and committed themselves to forms of friendship so intense that they required a life together in community.
In the case of the discov eries at Nag-Hammadi, the collection of Coptic compositions called the "Gnos tic Library" similarly led to a fresh reading of both canonical and apocryphal Christian literature and led to the development of new positions concerning the historical Jesus and diversity in the early Christian movement. 51 Scholars of religion read Greek and Roman novels, 52 for example, with a new appreciation for what they can tell us about religious attitudes and practices. z4-27). Other novels are being examined not for their plot and characterization, but for the way they depict social realities and reli gious sensibilities.
In this root sense, prophecy and revelation are closely aligned. In Greco-Roman religion, prophecy took several forms. Most common and routine were the various kinds of divination that accompanied the initiation of important actions, from sacrifices to war. This sort of technical prophecy (or augury) studied celestial and animal phenomena in order to deter mine divine favor of a specific undertaking. 69 In his work, On the Obsolescence of Oracles (early second century CE), Plutarch-himself a priest of Apollo at Delphi-reports a conversation with friends in which deep puzzlement and dismay are expressed because Delphi no longer seems to speak oracles,7° The dialogue offers a variety of scientific and theological explanations for the cessation of oracles.