Tag: Jesus and Fictive Family

Household: Jesus and Fictive Family (Part 1)

Jul 9, 2007

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by

mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

Joseph Hellerman writes in The Ancient Church as Family: Jesus’ idea of community expanded upon traditional Israelite and Judean models of surrogate kinship in the following three ways: 1. The kinship metaphor is significantly more pervasive in Jesus’ teaching than it is in the Old Testament and Second Temple Literature. 2. PKG [patrilineal kinship group]…