Christian origins and Greco-Roman culture : social and literary contexts for the New Testament /

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. Each essay moves forward the cur...

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Other Authors: Porter, Stanley E., 1956-, Pitts, Andrew W.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2013.

Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 9.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248649.

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Christianity > Origin.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity and culture > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Greece > Civilization.
Rome > Civilization.

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Call Number: BR129 .C425 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
  • Greco-Roman Culture in the History of New Testament Interpretation: An Introductory Essay /
  • Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
  • 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
  • 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 Κεφαλή on Its Head: The Rhetoric of Reversal in Ephesians 5:21-33 /
  • 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 παιδεία /
  • 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
  • Index of Modern Authors /
  • Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
  • Index of Ancient Sources /
  • Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts.