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Christian origins and greco-roman culture : social and literary contexts for the New Testament /

In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture, Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Porter, Stanley E., 1956-, Pitts, Andrew W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Texts and editions for New Testament study ; 9.
Texts and editions for New Testament study. Early Christianity in its hellenistic context ; v. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Greco-Roman culture in the history of the New Testament interpretation: an introductory essay / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
  • Greco-Roman social contexts for Christian origins
  • Manuscripts, scribes, and book production within early Christianity / Michael J. Kruger
  • What do we know and how do we know it? Reconstructing early Christianity from its manuscripts / Stanley E. Porter
  • Recent efforts to reconstruct early Christianity on the basis of its papyrological evidence / Stanley E. Porter
  • Jesus and parallel Jewish and Greco-Roman figures / Craig S. Keener
  • The exorcisms and healings of Jesus within classical culture / Tony Costa
  • Cash and release: Atonement and release from oppression in the Imperial context of Luke's Gospel / Matthew Forrest Lowe
  • Luke and Juvenal at the crossroads: Space, movement, and morality in the Roman Empire / Osman Umurhan and Todd Penner
  • Jesus, the beloved disciple, and Greco-Roman friendship conventions / Ronald F. Hock
  • The imitation of the "Great Man" in antiquity: Paul's inversion of a cultural icon / James R. Harrison
  • Ephesians: Paul's political theology in Greco-Roman political context / Fredrick J. Long
  • Exiles, islands, and the identity and perspective of John in Revelation / Brian Mark Rapske
  • Greco-Roman literary contexts for Christian origins
  • Source citation in Greek historiography and in Luke( -Acts) / Andrew W. Pitts
  • On sources and speeches: Methodological discussions in ancient prose works and Luke-Acts / Sean A. Adams
  • Luke as a Hellenistic Historian / Paul L. Maier
  • The genre of the Fourth Gospel and Greco-Roman literary conventions / Andreas J. Köstenberger
  • Classical Greek poetry and the Acts of the Apostles: imitations of Euripides' Bacchae / Dennis R. MacDonald
  • Pauline prescripts and Greco-Roman Epistolary conventions / E. Randolph Richards
  • Letter openings in Paul and Plato / James Starr
  • Progymnasmatic love / R. Dean Anderson
  • "This is a great metaphor!" Reciprocity in the Ephesians household code / Cynthia Long Westfall
  • Turning Kepavn on its head: the rhetoric of reversal in Ephesians 5:21-23 / Michelle Lee-Barnewell
  • Frank speech at work in Hebrews / Benjamin Fiore
  • How Greek was the author of "Hebrews"? A study of the author's location in regard to Greek / David A. deSilva
  • The Didache as a Christian Enchiridion / William Varner
  • The classroom in the text: Exegetical practices in Justin and Galen / H. Gregory Snyder.