The social world of the first Christians : essays in honor of Wayne A. Meeks / edited by L. Michael White and O. Larry Yarbrough.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©1995.
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xxix, 418 pages ; 24 cm

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    F. Hock -- Paul's thorn and cultural models of affliction / Susan R. Garrett -- Light on Paul from the Testaments of the twelve patriarchs? / M. de Jonge -- God's new family in Thessalonica / Abraham J. Malherbe -- Parents and children in the letters of Paul / O. Larry Yarbrough -- Matthew and the spirit / Leander E. Keck -- The problem of perjury in Greek context : prolegomena to an exegesis of Matthew 5:33; 1 Timothy 1:10; and Didache 2.3 / John T. Fitzgerald -- The social world of James : literary analysis and historical reconstruction / Luke Timothy Johnson -- The footwashing in John 13:6-11 : transformation ritual or ceremony? / Jerome H. Neyrey -- Rich and poor, proud and humble in Luke-Acts / David L. Balch -- Visualizing the "real" world of Acts 16: toward construction of a social index / L. Michael.
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    Contents
    • Euodia and Syntyche and Paul's letter to the Philippians / Nils A. Dahl
    • Christ, the elements of the cosmos, and the law in Galatians / J. Louis Martyn
    • The weak and the strong : Paul's careful and crafty rhetorical strategy in Romans 14:1-15:13 / J. Paul Sampley
    • [Skeyos] : a modest proposal for illuminating Paul's use of metaphor in 1 Thessalonians 4:4 / Jouette M. Bassler
    • A support for his old age : Paul's plea on behalf of Onesimus / Ronald F. Hock
    • Paul's thorn and cultural models of affliction / Susan R. Garrett
    • Light on Paul from the Testaments of the twelve patriarchs? / M. de Jonge
    • God's new family in Thessalonica / Abraham J. Malherbe
    • Parents and children in the letters of Paul / O. Larry Yarbrough
    • Matthew and the spirit / Leander E. Keck
    • The problem of perjury in Greek context : prolegomena to an exegesis of Matthew 5:33; 1 Timothy 1:10; and Didache 2.3 / John T. Fitzgerald
    • The social world of James : literary analysis and historical reconstruction / Luke Timothy Johnson
    • The footwashing in John 13:6-11 : transformation ritual or ceremony? / Jerome H. Neyrey
    • Rich and poor, proud and humble in Luke-Acts / David L. Balch
    • Visualizing the "real" world of Acts 16: toward construction of a social index / L. Michael White
    • The Red Hall in Pergamon / Helmut Koester
    • On the nature of magic : report on a dialogue between a historian and a sociologist / Alan F. Segal
    • Greeks who sacrifice and those who do not : toward an anthropology of Greek religion / Stanley K. Stowers
    • Prolegomena to the study of ancient gnosticism / Bentley Layton
    • Contesting Abraham : the ascetic reader and the politics of intertextuality / Elizabeth A. Clark
    • Agustine's The spirit and the letter as a reading of Paul's Romans / Paul W. Meyer
    • Sinned we all in Adam's fall? / Rowan A. Greer.
    ISBN
    • 0800625854 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780800625856 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    95002033
    OCLC
    31900505
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