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10 - Jesus in Christian Material Culture

from Part II - The Diversity of Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
Jeremiah Coogan
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

The presence and power of Jesus in early Christian material culture are mediated through texts, visual depictions, and other objects, representing and re-presenting Jesus across various contexts. Focusing especially on the first five centuries ce, the analysis addresses Jesus in the materiality of text, liturgy, relic, and symbol, revealing early Christian theologies and practices that resonate in later historical periods and highlighting the complex dialectic of Jesus’s presence and absence in material forms.

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Jesusmaterial culturetextsliturgyrelics
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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 154 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Coogan, Jeremiah. 2018. “Divine Truth, Presence, and Power: Christian Books in Roman North Africa.” Journal of Late Antiquity 11: 375–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Harley-McGowan, Felicity. 2020. “The Alexamenos Graffito.” In The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries: Volume Three: From Celsus to the Catacombs: Visual, Liturgical, and Non-Christian Receptions of Jesus in the Second and Third Centuries CE, edited by Keith, Chris, Bond, Helen K., Jacobi, Christine, and Schröter, Jens, 105–40. London: T&T Clark.Google Scholar
Hillner, Julia. 2022. Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hurtado, Larry W. 2006. The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.Google Scholar
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Jensen, Robin M. 2023. “Icons as Relics, Relics as Icons.” In Interacting with Saints in the Late Antique and Medieval Worlds, ed. Wiśniewski, Robert, Dam, Raymond Van, and Ward-Perkins, Bryan, 17–45. Turnhout: Brepols.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Keith, Chris. 2020. The Gospel as Manuscript: An Early History of the Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Kreps, Anne Starr. 2022. The Crucified Book: Sacred Writing in the Age of Valentinus. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.Google Scholar
Leyerle, Blake. 1996. “Landscape as Cartography in Early Christian Pilgrim Narratives.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 64: 119–43.Google Scholar
Maraschi, Andrea. 2017. “Sympathy for the Lord: The Host and Elements of Sympathetic Magic in Late Medieval Exempla.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 43: 209–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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