The article singles out and discusses some recent historical research on Christian origins that programmatically reflects on the role of Jerusalem in the rise and expansion of the Jesus movement. Epistemological and methodological considerations spurred by Marc Bloch’s famous engagement with the “obsession with origins” frame the analysis of the type of centrality ascribed to Jerusalem and the Jerusalemite Christ group/s in the earliest experiments with mythmaking and social formation. The discussion of a new radical method of history writing that aims to reset the quest for origins concludes the article.
E. Urciuoli (2021). The Origins Pit, the Jerusalem Pendulum, and the Cat-Eyed Historian. HUMANITAS, 76(suppl. 1), 127-138.
The Origins Pit, the Jerusalem Pendulum, and the Cat-Eyed Historian
E. Urciuoli
2021
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The article singles out and discusses some recent historical research on Christian origins that programmatically reflects on the role of Jerusalem in the rise and expansion of the Jesus movement. Epistemological and methodological considerations spurred by Marc Bloch’s famous engagement with the “obsession with origins” frame the analysis of the type of centrality ascribed to Jerusalem and the Jerusalemite Christ group/s in the earliest experiments with mythmaking and social formation. The discussion of a new radical method of history writing that aims to reset the quest for origins concludes the article.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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