Christian Fasting Biblical and Evangelical Perspectives【電子書籍】[ S.H. Mathews ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Rooted in a rigorous social＜/strong＞**-scientific reading of the New Testament, S.＜strong＞＜strong＞H. Mathews illuminates how fasting functioned within the honor＜/strong＞＜/strong＞-shame, kinship****-bound, and collectivist world of the first****-century Mediterranean.** Drawing on anthropology, sociology, and historical criticism, the volume re-situates fasting not as a universal spiritual discipline but as a culturally coded practice signalling mourning, repentance, solidarity, and communal identity. By positioning early Christian fasting within broader Jewish, Greek, Roman and Near Eastern contexts, Mathews demonstrates how abstention shaped boundary-making, social meaning, and the maintenance of group identity.＜br /＞ The analysis engages closely with key biblical episodes, Moses' and Elijah's forty-day fasts, Esther's intercessory fast, Ezra's and Nehemiah's communal fasts, the critique of exploitative fasting in Isaiah 58, and the ritual fasts in Zechariah 7?8, before tur．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る