ISBN:
9780567376213
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online Ressource (274 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2000
Series Statement:
Journal for the study of the New Testament 197
Series Statement:
Supplement series
Series Statement:
Journal for the study of the New Testament Supplement series
Parallel Title:
Print version Making Sense in (and of) the First Christian Century
DDC:
270.1
Keywords:
Bible Social scientific criticism
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Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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Electronic books
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Christentum
Abstract:
The first Christian century must be approached with careful attention to its cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. It should not simply be assumed that this past 'is a different place, they do things differently there'. Downing treats the ways in which early Christians tried to 'make things make sense' within their cultures, noting both the similarities and differences between their ways and contemporary ones and stressing the variety of contexts and influences on first-century communication. Downing brings his renowned expertise to bear in illuminating the cultural features of early Christia
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; 'HONOUR' AMONG EXEGETES; Chapter 2; PERSONS IN RELATION; Chapter 3; FORGIVINGNESS? - OF FORGIVENESS? - OR THE REMISSION OF OFFENCES ?; Chapter 4; THE AMBIGUITY OF 'THE PHARISEE AND THE TOLL COLLECTOR' (LUKE 18.9-14) IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY; Chapter 5; THE WOMAN FROM SYROPHOENICIA, AND HER DOGGEDNESS MARK 7.24-31 (MATTHEW 15.21-28); Chapter 6; DEEPER REFLECTIONS ON THE JEWISH CYNIC JESUS; Chapter 7; CYNICS AND CHRISTIANS, OEDIPUS AND THYESTES; Chapter 8; EXILE IN FORMATIVE JUDAISM; Chapter 9
Description / Table of Contents:
COMMON STRANDS IN PAGAN, JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGIES IN THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURIES; Chapter 10; CHRISTOLOGICAL REALISM IN PAUL, HEBREWS AND JOHN; Chapter 11; MAGIC AND SCEPTICISM IN AND AROUND THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURY; Chapter 12; INTERPRETATION AND THE 'CULTURE GAP'; Chapter 13; REFLECTING IN THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURY: 1 CORINTHIANS 13.12; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-249) and indexes
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