Nazorean

How a Jewish Wisdom Sect Gave Birth to the Church

Kem Luther

$58.95 $50.46

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Wipf & Stock Publishers
16 August 2024

History of religion; Christianity; Christian Churches & denominations

A swirl of Jewish sectarian movements muddied the religious waters during the late Second Temple period. In recent decades, scholars of the Bible have struggled to understand the role these sects played in the rise and spread of the Jesus movement. Nazorean joins this wave of sectarian scholarship. In this book, Kem Luther sketches the history of a wisdom-oriented sect that gave birth to the Christian church. Weaving a series of what the philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood called ""webs of imaginative construction,"" he provides a provocative and plausible story about a wisdom sect--the Nazoreans--that shaped the career and teachings of John the Baptist and Jesus. To support his scenario, Luther offers sectarian readings of passages from the Gospels of Matthew and John, the Epistle of James, Acts, the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Psalms of Solomon. He links his developing awareness of the sectarian context of these documents to his own trek through a landscape of post-1960 American religion. The candid account of Luther's own journey through a naive modernism, his immersion in evangelical subculture at a Bible school, and his postgraduate studies in mysticism and philosophy makes a fascinating complement to his textual studies.

By: Kem Luther
Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 417g
ISBN: 9798385225972
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 16 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kem Luther is a writer. At the time of his retirement from a career in teaching philosophy and computer science, he was dean of the joint University of Toronto/Sheridan college program in communication, culture, and information technology. His books include Cottonwood Roots (1993) and Boundary Layer (2016).

Reviews for Nazorean: How a Jewish Wisdom Sect Gave Birth to the Church

""Kem Luther's Nazorean is both personal and scholarly. He makes clear his own presuppositions and how he has arrived at them, writing with honesty and gentle humor. Luther invites his readers to consider how we write history and the possibilities of 'imaginative construction' in uncovering influences on John the Baptist, Jesus, and his followers within the matrix of Second Temple Judaism. The result could be insights that have been hiding in plain sight."" --John Gram, contributor, International Greek New Testament Project