Tag: Mark 3

Household: Jesus and Fictive Family (Part 2)

Jul 10, 2007

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mwkruse

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

Brothers and Sisters The most frequent use of the fictive family imagery in the New Testament is the use of "brother" and "sister" to refer to fellow believers. As you may recall from an earlier post, the relationship between siblings was the most intimate of relationships in Greco-Roman culture. It was the relationship with the…
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]…