This text exists in its entirety in a single manuscript from the year 1006. This paper concerns a Coptic text called the Mysteries of John. The Mysteries of John: The Content and Context of a Manuscript from Early Islamic Egypt In the last section, I will argue for a primarily religious categorization of the Enochic lowly/humble, as opposed to an identification based on the category of class given the centrality of an anawim theology and liminal identity and discuss how this might correspond to or differs from the situational strategy of 1 Peter. Etic explorations of the textual phenomena will also be explored taking the form of social-scientific perspectives on sectarianism (especially from Bryan Wilson) and liminality (especially from Victor Turner). After a brief illustration of literary and thematic links between these works and 1 Peter, I will summarize the contents of these Enochic texts and 1 Peter and discuss their social contexts following an emic explanation of their common situation and strategy that links the treatment of the lowly/humble with Israelite depictions of the anawim. This paper hopes discuss the character of what would be shown as important backgrounds to 1 Peter: the Epistle of Enoch (1 En 91-105) and the Eschatological Admonition (1 En 108). Program Unit: Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament Liminality, Secterianism, and the Pious Poor: The Situational Strategies of the Epistles of Enoch and First Peter This is in novel manifestations as has not taken root aforetime but has succeeded in making indelible impressions. The erstwhile resonance between African Traditional Religion and Pentecostalism has seen a face-lift in the arena of latter borrowing from the former in unexpected dimensions. The state of the healthcare system, characterized by an inadequate doctor to patient ratio and a general inadequate health care system is fuelling such phenomena. A study of such occurrences reveals appropriation of African Traditional mechanisms and methods in novel ways in current development.
Healing as a central Pentecostal practice and its attendant deliverance practices are widespread. The Pentecostal movement is undeniable in Ghana and has become even more influential in recent times across the Christian landscape. Program Unit: African Association for the Study of Religions Program Unit: Children in the Biblical WorldĪppropriation of African Traditional Religion Mechanisms in the Healing and Deliverance Practices of Pentecostals in the Milieu of Inadequate Health Care in Ghana How Close Can We Get to the Roman Child: Methodological Potentials In this way, the prayer offers the correct response for the participants, for the entire body or put in the words of Deuteronomy: with all the heart and soul. Prayers are not identical with reality: in an idealistic fashion they prescribe reality, or inform reality. 4Q504 has been described as a confident prayer: “you have healed us from madness and blindness and confusion” (4Q504 1–2 ii 13–17). However, the petitionary prayers in 4Q504 do not only interpret Torah they interpret experience. There are several intertextual relations between Words of the Luminaries (4Q504) and the Pentateuch. When the liturgy 4Q504 rehearses history, through the medium of prayer, it does not only act according to Torah, it also fosters Torah obedience. The logic of Deuteronomy is that remembrance is a prerequiste of obedience (Deut 8:11). The exact contents may have varied, but it seems likely that portions of the Pentateuch or Deuteronomy would have functioned as representative for Torah. From a material perspective ‘torah’ may refer to literature, or a scroll. Taking 4Q504 as an example, this paper argues that prayer offers both interpretations and performances of Torah. But prayer also constructs subjectivity as the words and acts accompanied with it, evoke emotions which shape behaviour. As such prayer is a performance of obedience and covenant loyalty. The words of the prayer are an offering, a gift of the lip, and a demonstration of love and devotion through confession and praise. This paper suggests that prayer can be seen as a bodily response to Torah.
While Torah prescribes how things ought to be, the words and acts of the prayer, as a ritual, seek to accomplish this reality– through performance. Ingunn Aadland, IKO- Church Educational Centre Ritualising Torah: Prayer as a Bodily Response to Torah in Words of the Luminaries (4Q504)
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