Paul In His Hellenistic Context

Author : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567084264

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Paul in His Hellenistic Context by Troels Engberg-Pedersen Pdf

Universalism in Judaism and Christianity / Alan F. Segal -- Yes, No, How Far?: the participation of Jews and Christians in pagan cults / Peder Borgen -- Paul and the Hellenistic schools : the evidence of Galen / Loveday Alexander -- Transferring a ritual : Paul's interpretation of baptism in Romans 6 / Hans Dieter Betz -- Enthymemic argumentation in Paul : the case of Romans 6 / David Hellholm -- Romans 7.7-25 as a speech-in-character / Stanley K. Stowers -- The quest for honor and the unity of the community in Romans 12 and the oration of Dio Chrysostom / Halvor Moxnes -- Determinism and free will in Paul : the argument of 1 Corinthians 8 and 9 / Abraham J. Malherbe -- Stoicism in Philippians / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- Human nature and ethics in Hellenistic philosophical traditions and Paul : some issues and problems / David E. Aune.

Author : Ж. Т. Папьян
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:468398649

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КПСС и главные направления научно-технической политики на современном этапе by Ж. Т. Папьян Pdf

Author : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664224067

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Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide by Troels Engberg-Pedersen Pdf

This insightful book intends to do away with the traditional strategy of playing Judaism and Hellenism out against one another as a context for understanding Paul. Case studies focus specifically on the Corinthian correspondence.

Author : Will Deming
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802839894

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Paul on Marriage and Celibacy by Will Deming Pdf

Paul is traditionally seen as one of the founders of Christian sexual asceticism. As early as the second century C.E., church leaders looked to him as a model for their lives of abstinence. But is this a correct reading of Paul? What exactly did Paul teach on the subjects of marriage and celibacy? Will Deming here answers these questions. By placing Paul's statements on marriage and celibacy against the backdrop of ancient Hellenistic society, Deming constructs a coherent picture of Paul's views. According to Deming, the conceptual world in which Paul lived and wrote had substantially vanished by 100 C.E., and terms like "sin," "body," "sex," and "holiness" began to acquire moral implications quite unlike those Paul knew. Paul conceived of marriage as a social obligation that had the potential of distracting Christians from Christ. For him celibacy was the single life, free from such distraction, not a life of saintly denial. Sex, in turn, was natural and not sinful, and sex within marriage was both proper and necessary. Superbly researched and reasoned, this book corrects misinterpretations of Paul and restores him to his proper place in the history of Christian thought on marriage and sexuality.

Author : Peter Van 't Riet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9076783543

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Paul, a Hellenistic Jew? by Peter Van 't Riet Pdf

Many scholars and readers of the Bible have a romantic image of Paul: born in a pious Jewish family, educated in Jerusalem at the feet of the famous Pharisaic scholar Gamliel and fluently speaking Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin. However, does this fit in with the data from the genuine letters of Paul? In this book the author shows that the above mentioned image of Paul is especially derived from the Acts of the Apostles, in which the evangelist Luke has adapted the image of Paul to his own almost Pharisaic idea of the messianic time. In contrast however, Paul himself presents a completely different Christology (doctrine about Christ) in his letters. His language and way of thinking are more cognate with the Hellenistic, Greek speaking Judaism of his days. The author discusses successively: 1) Hellenism, the dominant culture of the Greek-Roman world of those days; 2) the Hellenistic Judaism of the Diaspora, which differed greatly from the Aramaic Judaism of Jesus and his early disciples; 3) the Septuagint, the Greek Bible translation, which had already existed about 300 years in the days of Paul and which deviated in many respects from the Hebrew Bible. Next the author researches what of these three phenomena could be found in the letters of Paul. Which turned out to be a lot more than he presumed at the start of his research. The Hellenistic Judaism is so intertwined with Paul's thought that the most obvious conclusion is that Paul has spent his youth and early years in a Hellenistic-Jewish milieu. This background clarifies many difficult passages in the letters of Paul and leads to a better understanding of his theology.

Author : Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bible
ISBN : 3161462041

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Paulinische Studien by Hans Dieter Betz Pdf

Author : Will Deming
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521472849

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Paul on Marriage and Celibacy by Will Deming Pdf

Reassesses Paul's thinking on marriage and his place in the history of Christian asceticism.

Author : Robert Brian Lewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567663894

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Paul's 'Spirit of Adoption' in its Roman Imperial Context by Robert Brian Lewis Pdf

Robert Lewis examines Paul's use of the phrase “Spirit of Adoption” in Romans 8:12-17 against the background of its Roman Imperial context in order to shed light on interpretation of Paul's Letter to the Romans. Whereas other scholars have explored what Paul may have meant when he uses the term “adoption” Lewis instead explores the reasons behind Paul's coupling of it with the term “spirit”. Having examined theories for a possible Jewish antecedent for Paul's use of this phrase, and found them less than persuasive, Lewis unlocks the data within the term's Roman Imperial context that significantly clarifies what Paul means when he uses the phrase “Spirit of adoption". Lewis shows that when Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, adoption had become a feature of Imperial succession. Roman religion gave a great deal of prominence to the Roman family spirit - the genius. The Emperor's genius became identified as a deity in Roman religion and its veneration was widespread in Rome as well as the provinces. When Romans 8.12-17 is read against this background, a very different kind of exegetical picture emerges.

Author : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783161618895

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Paul and Philosophy by Troels Engberg-Pedersen Pdf

Author : Hyam Maccoby
Publisher : Trinity PressIntl
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563380145

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Paul and Hellenism by Hyam Maccoby Pdf

Seeks the origins of later Christian anti-Judaism in Gnosticism and Pauline theology. Describes Gnostic anti-Judaism as directed primarily against the Jewish God and his law, rather than against the Jewish people who are their blind servants. Judaism for the Gnostics is more contemptible than dangerous, since its power is only in this world, to which the Gnostics attached no importance. Suggests that their hostility was aroused by Judaism's claim to equate its God with the higher God of Hellenistic thought. Paul took over much of the Gnostic two-power scheme, including the view of the Jews as blind servants of the Law. Argues that his own anti-Judaism did not go beyond that of the Gnostics. But in seeing the Crucifixion as central to salvation, and in singling out the Jews for a special role in salvation history, he added to the Gnostic two-power theology elements that later took shape as the Christian view of the Jews as Christ-killers and instruments of Satan.

Author : James W. Thompson
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801039027

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Moral Formation According to Paul by James W. Thompson Pdf

A leading biblical scholar shows that Paul offers a coherent moral vision based on both the story of Christ and the norms of the law.

Author : Hyam Maccoby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019827388

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Paul and Hellenism by Hyam Maccoby Pdf

Seeks the origins of later Christian anti-Judaism in Gnosticism and Pauline theology. Describes Gnostic anti-Judaism as directed primarily against the Jewish God and his law, rather than against the Jewish people who are their blind servants. Judaism for the Gnostics is more contemptible than dangerous, since its power is only in this world, to which the Gnostics attached no importance. Suggests that their hostility was aroused by Judaism's claim to equate its God with the higher God of Hellenistic thought. Paul took over much of the Gnostic two-power scheme, including the view of the Jews as blind servants of the Law. Argues that his own anti-Judaism did not go beyond that of the Gnostics. But in seeing the Crucifixion as central to salvation, and in singling out the Jews for a special role in salvation history, he added to the Gnostic two-power theology elements that later took shape as the Christian view of the Jews as Christ-killers and instruments of Satan.

Author : Abraham J. Malherbe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1153 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004256521

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Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity by Abraham J. Malherbe Pdf

Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the “background” against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse intellectual traditions that interacted within specific social contexts. These essays, spanning over fifty years, illustrate Malherbe’s appreciation of the complexities of this ecology and what is required to explore philological and conceptual connections between early Christian writers, especially Paul and Athenagoras, and their literary counterparts who participated in the religious and philosophical discourse of the wider culture. Malherbe’s essays laid the groundwork for his magisterial commentary on the Thessalonian correspondence and launched the contemporary study of Hellenistic moral philosophy and early Christianity.

Author : N. T. Wright
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800663575

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Paul by N. T. Wright Pdf

Ranks the Apostle Paul as "one of the most powerful and seminal minds of the first or any century," and argues that we can now sketch with confidence a new and more nuanced picture of Paul and the radical way in which his encounter with Jesus redefined his life, his mission and his expectations for a world made new in Christ. Reprint.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004234765

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Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism by Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts Pdf

In Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through reference to Hellenistic Judaism and its literary forms.