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Christian origins and Greco-Roman culture : social and literary contexts for the New Testament / edited by Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts.

Contributor(s): Porter, Stanley E, 1956- | Pitts, Andrew W
Material type: TextTextSeries: Texts and editions for New Testament study: v. 9.; Texts and editions for New Testament study: v. 1.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: vii, 751 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004234161 (hardback : alk. paper); 9004234160 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Christianity -- Origin | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Christianity and culture -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Greece -- Civilization | Rome -- CivilizationDDC classification: 270.1 LOC classification: BR129 | .C425 2013Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Greco-Roman culture in the history of 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 ; 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 [kephalē] 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 [paideia] / 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Greco-Roman culture in the history of 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 ; 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 [kephalē] 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 [paideia] / 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.

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