Tag: patrilineal kinship group

Household: Jesus and Fictive Family (Part 4)

Jul 13, 2007

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by

mwkruse

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

We have seen that the Old Testament contains some fictive family references but not nearly to the extent we see with Jesus. The Old Testament references tend to be more about God as the Father of the Nation, and there is not really the concept of the entire nation being brothers and sisters of each…
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]…