Harvard Theological Review articles from October 2003

Harvard Theological Review archives from October 2003

Did election imply the mistreatment of non-Israelites? *.
October 1, 2003... As a way of working out and consolidating one's religious identity, the wholesale slaughter of people (whether in herem, crusade, or jihad) is exactly what it seems to be, no more and no less. The pressure that builds up...

Exploring the Ethiopic Book of the Cock, an apocryphal passion gospel from late antiquity *.
October 1, 2003... * A "Newly Discovered" Apocryphal Passion Gospel The Mashafa dorho, or Book of the Cock, is an apocryphal passion narrative (1) that survives in an Ethiopic (Ge'ez) version, which in turn has clearly been translated from an Arabic...

Discipline and diet: feeding the martyrs in Roman Carthage *.
October 1, 2003... Thus the Christian may enter prison just as though leaving it--experiencing not a punishment, but discipline.--Tertullian, On Fasting Although few Christians were likely to suffer the most violent consequences of persecution under the...

Fasting as a penitential rite: a biblical phenomenon? *.
October 1, 2003... In the opening decades of the twentieth century, several ethnologists became interested in the phenomenon of fasting. They found, in the words of one study, that "the custom of fasting is wide-spread among peoples at very different stages of...

Books received.
October 1, 2003... Altizer, Thomas J. J., Godhead and the Nothing. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2003. 165 pp. $16.95 pb. Archbishop Anastasios (Yannoulatos). Facing the World: Orthodox Christian Essays on Global Concerns. Translated by...