ISBN:
3161492552
,
9783161492556
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 295 S.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2007
Series Statement:
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 228
Series Statement:
2. Reihe
Series Statement:
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament / 2
Dissertation note:
Teilw. zugl.: Notre Dame, Ind., Univ., Diss., 2006
DDC:
230
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Bibel
;
Bibel
;
Hymns, Early Christian
;
Hymns, Greek (Classical)
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Jewish hymns
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Hymne
;
Hochschulschrift
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Bibliografie
;
Bibel 1,15-20 Kolosserbrief
;
Exegese
;
Bibel 1,15-20 Kolosserbrief
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Griechisch
;
Hymne
;
Bibel 1,15-20 Kolosserbrief
;
Frühjudentum
;
Hymne
;
Bibel Neues Testament
;
Umwelt
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Paulus Apostel, Heiliger
;
Bibel Paulinische Briefe
;
Theologie
;
Bibel Neues Testament
;
Traditionsgeschichtliche Forschung
Abstract:
The suggestion that the New Testament contains citations of early Christological hymns has long been a controversial issue in New Testament scholarship. As a way of advancing this facet of New Testament research, Matthew E. Gordley examines the Colossian hymn (Col 1:15-20) in light of its cultural and epistolary contexts. As a result of a broad comparative analysis, he claims that Col 1:15-20 is a citation of a prose-hymn which represents a fusion of Jewish and Greco-Roman conventions for praising an exalted figure. A review of hymns in the literature of Second Temple Judaism demonstrates that the Colossian hymn owes a number of features to Jewish modes of praise. Likewise, a review of hymns in the broader Greco-Roman world demonstrates that the Colossian hymn is equally indebted to conventions used for praising the divine in the Greco-Roman tradition. In light of these hymnic traditions of antiquity, the analysis of the form and content of the Colossian hymn shows how the passage fits well into a Greco-Roman context, and indicates that it is best understood as a quasi-philosophical prose-hymn cited in the context of a paraenetic letter. Finally, in view of ancient epistolary and rhetorical theory and practice, an analysis of the role of the hymn in Colossians suggests that the hymn serves a number of significant rhetorical functions throughout the remainder of the letter.
Note:
Bibliography p. [271] - 280
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