Ritual and Ceremony
in the Graeco-Roman World
A Select Classified Bibliography (1970–1996)

K. C. Hanson
Fortress Press
P.O. Box 1209
Minneapolis, MN 55440
© 1997-1998
kchanson@charter.net




Jerusalem Temple
(photo by K. C. Hanson ©1987)


CONTENTS



Overviews and Cross-Cultural Studies




Greece and Crete




Rome




Dead Sea Scrolls




The Jesus Movement & the Earliest Churches

    Akpunonu, P. "The Celebration of Feasts." In Communautés johanniques / Johannine Communities: Actes du Quatriéme Congrés des Biblistes Africains. W. Amewowo, et al., eds. Kinshasa, Zaire: Katholische Jungschar Oesterreichs, 1991.

    Ascough, Richard S. "An Analysis of the Baptismal Ritual of the Didache." Studia Liturgica 24 (1994):201-13.

    Bartchy, S. Scott. "Table Fellowship." In Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. J. Green, et al., eds. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1992.

    Bregman, L. "Baptism as Death and Birth: A Psychological Interpretation of Its Imagery." Journal of Ritual Studies 1 (1987):27-42.

    Briggs, Sheila. "Buried with Christ: The Politics of Identity and the Poverty of Interpretation." In The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory, 276-303. R. M. Schwartz, ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

    Buchanan, George W. "Worship, Feasts and Ceremonies in the Early Jewish-Christian Church." New Testament Studies 26 (1980):279-97.

    Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen. "An Interpretation of Logion 114 in the Gospel of Thomas." Novum Testamentum 27 (1985):245-72.

    Burtchaell, James Tunstead. "The Rituals of Jesus the Anti-Ritualist." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 39 (1971):513-25.

    Chilton, Bruce D. "The Purity of the Kingdom as Conveyed in Jesus' Meals." In SBL 1992 Seminar Papers, 473-88. E. Lovering, ed.. Atlanta: Scholars, 1992.

    Chilton, Bruce D. The Temple of Jesus: His Sacrificial Program Within a Cultural History of Sacrifice. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1992.

    Christiansen, E. J. The Covenant in Judaism and Paul: A Study of Ritual Boundaries as Identity Markers. Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 27. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

    Cook, Randall K. "A imersao judaica e o batismo cristao." Vox Scripturae 3 (1993):21-33.

    Derrett, J. Duncan M. "Getting on Top of a Demon (Luke 4:39)." Evangelical Quarterly 65 (1993):99-109.

    Dunn, James D. G. "Jesus, Table-Fellowship, and Qumran." In Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, 254-72. J. H. Charlesworth, ed. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

    Elliott, John H. "Household and Meals vs. Temple Purity Replication Patterns in Luke-Acts." Biblical Theology Bulletin 21 (1991):102-8.

    FitzPatrick, Michael. "From Ritual Observance to Ethics: The Argument of Mark 7:1-23." Australian Biblical Review 35 (1987):22-27.

    Hanson, K. C. "Transformed on the Mountain: Ritual Analysis and the Gospel of Matthew." Semeia 67 (1995):147-70.

    Heinrichs, A. "Pagan Ritual and the Alleged Crimes of the Early Christians: A Reconsideration." In Kyriakon: Festschrift Johannes Quasten, vol. 2, 18-35. P. Granfield and J. A. Jungman, eds. Münster: Aschendorff, 1970.

    Hickling, C. "Baptism in the First-Century Churches: A Case for Caution." In The Bible in Three Dimensions: Essays in Celebration of Forty Years of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield. D. J. A. Clines, et al., eds. JSOT Supplements, 87. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990.

    LaHurd, Carole. "Reader Response to Ritual Elements in Mark 5:1-20." Biblical Theology Bulletin 20 (1990):154-60.

    Ludwig, Nita. "The Christian Mythos: Christianity and the History of Ritual and Initiation." Epiphany 2.3 (1982):28-39.

    Malina, Bruce J. "Facilitating the Flow of Action: Rites and Their Agents." In Christian Origins and Cultural Anthropology: Models for Biblical Interpretation, 139-65. Atlanta: John Knox, 1986.

    Malina Bruce J. and Jerome H. Neyrey. Calling Jesus Names: The Social Value of Labels in Matthew. Sonoma, CA: Polebridge, 1988 (esp. 88-91, 103-5, 129-30).

    McVann, Mark. "Baptism, Miracles, and Boundary Jumping in Mark." Biblical Theology Bulletin 21 (1991):151-57.

    McVann, Mark. "One of the Prophets: Matthew's Testing Narrative as a Rite of Passage." Biblical Theology Bulletin 23 (1993):14-20.

    McVann, Mark. "The Passion in Mark: A Transformation Ritual." Biblical Theology Bulletin 18 (1988):96-101.

    McVann, Mark. "Reading Mark Ritually: Honor-Shame and the Ritual of Baptism." Semeia 67 (1995):179-98.

    McVann, Mark. "Rituals of Status Transformation in Luke-Acts." In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, 333-60. J. H. Neyrey, ed. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991.

    Meeks, Wayne A. "Ritual." In The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul, 140-63. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1983.

    Moxnes, Halvor. "Meals and the New Community in Luke." Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 51 (1986):158-67.

    Muoneke, M. Bibiana. "Worship and Sacraments in John's Gospel." In Communautés johanniques / Johannine Communities: Actes du Quatriéme Congrés des Biblistes Africains. W. Amewowo, et al., eds. Kinshasa, Zaire: Katholische Jungschar Oesterreichs, 1991.

    Neyrey, Jerome H. "Ceremonies in Luke-Acts: The Case of Meals and Table-Fellowship." In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, 333-60. J. H. Neyrey, ed. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991.

    Neyrey, Jerome H. "Rituals: Making and Maintaining Boundaries." In Paul in Other Words: A Cultural Reading of His Letters, 75-101. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1990.

    Neyrey, Jerome H. "A Symbolic Approach to Mark 7." Forum 4 (1988):63-91.

    Pfitzner, Victor C. "Purified Community—Purified Sinner: Expulsion From the Community According to Matt 18:15-18 and 1 Cor 5:1-5." Australian Biblical Review 30 (1982):34-55.

    Rhoads, David. "Social Criticism: Crossing Boundaries." In Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies, 135-61. J. Anderson and S. Moore, eds. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

    Ruiz, Jean-Pierre. "Betwixt and Between on the Lord's Day: Liturgy and the Apocalypse." In SBL 1992 Seminar Papers, 654-72. E. Lovering, eds. Atlanta: Scholars, 1992.

    Scroggs, Robin, and Kent I. Groff. "Baptism in Mark: Dying and Rising with Christ." Journal of Biblical Literature 92 (1973) 531-48.

    Sloyan, Gerard S. "Jewish Ritual of the 1st Century CE and Christian Sacramental Behavior." Biblical Theology Bulletin 15 (1985) 98-103.

    Smith, Dennis E. "The Messianic Banquet Reconsidered." In The Future of Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Helmut Koester, edited by B. A. Pearson, 64-73. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.

    Smith, G. Mick. "Dance of the Graces: Ritual in Early Christianity." Epoché 16 (1988) 69-100.

    Stowers, Stanley K. "Elusive Coherence: Ritual and Rhetoric in 1 Corinthians 10–11." In Reimagining Christian Origins: A Colloquium Honoring Burton L. Mack, edited by E. A. Castelli and H. Taussig, 68-83. Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1996.

    Taussig, Hal. "Dealing under the Table: Ritual Negotiation of Women's Power in the Syro-Phoenician Woman Periocope." In Reimagining Christian Origins: A Colloquium Honoring Burton L. Mack, edited by E. A. Castelli and H. Taussig, 264-79. Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1996.

    Via, E. Jane. "Women, The Discipleship of Service, and the Early Christian Ritual Meal in the Gospel of Luke." Saint Luke's Journal of Theology 29 (1985):37-60.

    Wierod, Ole. "Dåben i 1 Kor 15:29." Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 50 (1987):54-58.




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