Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Porter, Stanley E., 1956-
• Pitts, Andrew W.

Description

vii, 751 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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 current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Hellenistic culture.

Series Statement

• Texts and editions for New Testament study, 1574-7085 ; v. 9
• Early Christianity in its hellenistic context ; v. 1

Uniform Title

• Texts and editions for New Testament study ; v. 9.
• Texts and editions for New Testament study. Early Christianity in its hellenistic context ; v. 1.

Subjects

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

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (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.

Call Number

JFE 17-5845

ISBN

• 9789004234161
• 9004234160

LCCN

2012030623

OCLC

808417323

Title

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

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Texts and editions for New Testament study, 1574-7085 ; v. 9

Early Christianity in its hellenistic context ; v. 1

Texts and editions for New Testament study ; v. 9.

Texts and editions for New Testament study. Early Christianity in its hellenistic context ; v. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

30-600

Added Author

Porter, Stanley E., 1956-

Pitts, Andrew W.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-5845