Purpose And Cause In Pauline Exegesis

Author : Wendy Dabourne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139425933

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Three factors prompt this re-examination of the underlying questions that shape mainstream exegesis of Paul's letters. Hermeneutical studies have destabilized assumptions about the nature of meaning in texts; the letters are usually characterized as pastoral but explicated as expressions of Paul's thought; and the impact of E. P. Sanders' work on Paul has sharpened exegetical problems in Romans 1.16-4.25. The outcome is a two-step method of exegesis that considers a letter first in the light of the author's purpose in creating it and second as evidence for the patterns of thought from which it sprang. The passage appears as pastoral preaching, helping the Romans to deal with the implications of the fact that the God of Israel is now accepting believing Gentiles on the same basis as believing Jews. Justification by grace through faith emerges as the theological understanding of God's action in Christ that grounds pastoral speech.

Author : Wendy Dabourne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:638764276

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Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis by Wendy Dabourne Pdf

Author : Wendy Dabourne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:638764276

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Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis by Wendy Dabourne Pdf

Author : Bernhard Oestreich
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498298315

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Performance Criticism of the Pauline Letters by Bernhard Oestreich Pdf

Receiving a letter from Paul was a major event in the early churches. Given the orally oriented culture of the time, a letter was designed to be read out loud in front of an audience. The document was an intermediate state for the local transport of the message, but the actual medium of communication was the performance event. This event was embedded in the written text in a manner comparable to a theater script. After careful preparation because of high expectations from ancient audiences, a presenter embodied the message with his voice, gazes, and gestures and made it not only understood but jointly experienced. After presenting a short history of performance criticism, this book clarifies what is meant by the highly ambiguous term "performance" and develops steps to analyze ancient texts in order to find and understand the embedded signals of performance. This leads to a critical assessment of the potential of performance criticism as a method. Then, the method is applied to the Pauline Epistles and other early Christian letters. It proves to be highly rewarding: difficult passages become comprehensible, new aspects come to light, the text's impact on the audience is felt--in short, the texts come alive.

Author : Kathy Ehrensperger
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567026408

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That We May Be Mutually Encouraged by Kathy Ehrensperger Pdf

Offers a compelling new look at Paul by placing the "New Perspective" in dialogue with feminism theology.

Author : Donald A. Hagner
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441240408

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The New Testament by Donald A. Hagner Pdf

This capstone work from widely respected senior evangelical scholar Donald Hagner offers a substantial introduction to the New Testament. Hagner deals with the New Testament both historically and theologically, employing the framework of salvation history. He treats the New Testament as a coherent body of texts and stresses the unity of the New Testament without neglecting its variety. Although the volume covers typical questions of introduction, such as author, date, background, and sources, it focuses primarily on understanding the theological content and meaning of the texts, putting students in a position to understand the origins of Christianity and its canonical writings. Throughout, Hagner delivers balanced conclusions in conversation with classic and current scholarship. The book includes summary tables, diagrams, maps, and extensive bibliographies.

Author : William S. Campbell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567669438

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Romans: A Social Identity Commentary by William S. Campbell Pdf

William S. Campbell provides a comprehensive commentary on Paul's most challenging letter. In conversation with reception history and previous scholarship, he emphasizes the contextuality of Romans as a letter to Rome, using social identity theory combined with historical, literary and theological perspectives to arrive at a coherent reading of the entire letter. Because Paul has never visited Rome and is not the founder of the Christ-movement there, Campbell argues that his guidance and teaching are formulated more cautiously than in his other letters. Yet the long list of people who had previous links with him and his mission to the 'gentiles' demonstrates that Paul is well-informed about the situation in Rome and addresses issues that have arisen. With Christ the Messianic Time is beginning, but there was some lack of clarity in Rome about the implications of this for Jews and gentiles. Rather than ethne in Christ replacing Israel, as some in Rome possibly concluded, Campbell stresses that Paul affirms the irrevocable calling of Israel, and that simultaneously the identity of ethne in Christ is also called alongside the people Israel; thus, the integrity of the identity of both is affirmed as indispensable for God's purpose now revealed in Christ. Campbell fully demonstrates how Paul in Romans achieves this by the social and theological intertwining of the message of the gospel.

Author : William S Campbell
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227906231

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Unity and Diversity in Christ by William S Campbell Pdf

The legacy of Pauline scholarship, from ancient to modern, is characterised by a surfeit of unsettled, conflicting conclusions that often fail to interpret Paul in relation to his Jewish roots. William S. Campbell takes a stand against this paradigm, emphasising continuity between Judaism and the Christ-movement in Paul's letters. Campbell focusses on important themes, such as diversity, identity and reconciliation, as the basic components of transformation in Christ. The stance from which Paultheologises is one that recognises and underpins social and cultural diversity and includes the correlating demand that because difference is integral to the Christ-movement, the enmity associated with difference cannot be tolerated. Thus, reconciliation emerges as a fundamental value in the Christ-movement. Reconciliation, in this sense, respects and does not negate the particularities of the identity of Jews and those from the nations. In this paradigm, transformation implies the re-evaluation of all things in Christ, whether of Jewish or gentile origin.

Author : Changwon Song
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0820468177

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Reading Romans as a Diatribe by Changwon Song Pdf

This book illustrates how the macro-structure of the «body» of Romans essentially follows that of the diatribes in Epictetus's Discourses. As in Discourses, the diatribe in Romans begins with the thesis (1.16-17), then follows an indictment (1.18-32) and dialogues with a fictitious second-person singular in chapter two. Arguments with the mē genoito formula dominate the middle part of the diatribe. In the middle of chapter eleven, the phase changes back to dialogues with the second-person singular. The ending of the diatribe Romans also, like Discourses, includes cynic and hyperbolic statements (14.21 and 14.23). Thus, the «body» of Romans should not be read as a real letter, but as a diatribe that was distributed in Paul's schoolroom and later appropriated as a letter. This teaching was not directed to a specific group of people, viz., the Christians in Rome, but rather intrinsically universalized. Therefore, its message is intrinsically more powerful for us.

Author : Douglas Campbell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567055569

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The Quest for Paul's Gospel by Douglas Campbell Pdf

Douglas Campbell gives a clear account of why much current description of Paul's theology, and of his gospel and of his theory of salvation, is so confused. After outlining the difficulties underlying much of the current debate he lays out some basic options that will greatly clarify the debate. He then engages with these options and shows how one offers far more promise than the others, sketching out some of its initial applications. Campbell then shows in more detail how another option -- the main alternative, and the main culprit in terms of many of our difficulties -- can be circumvented textually, in a responsible fashion. That is, we see how we could remove this option from Paul's text exegetically, and so reach greater clarity. Finally, he concludes with a 'road-map' of where future, more detailed, research into Paul needs to go if the foregoing strategy is to be carried out thoroughly. Campbell believes that by utilising this strategy Paul's gospel will be shown to be both cogent and constructive. This is volume 274 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series.

Author : Michael D. Barram
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0820474304

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Mission and Moral Reflection in Paul by Michael D. Barram Pdf

The Apostle Paul sought to exert his influence and authority over the congregations he founded long after they had been established. Such ongoing oversight by Christianity's prototypical «evangelist» has not been adequately understood. In a brief 1987 article, W. Paul Bowers challenged John Knox's assertion that Paul's «pastoral and administrative work irked him and that he wanted to be free of it». This book confirms and significantly develops Bowers's little-known thesis, examining a wide range of passages in the apostle's undisputed letters and highlighting crucial implications of Paul's broadly conceived vocation for understanding his mission and moral reflection.

Author : Joel L. Watts
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532657160

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Jesus as Divine Suicide by Joel L. Watts Pdf

Jesus as Divine Suicide makes the argument the death of Jesus follows established and well-known models of self-sacrificing individuals, a model readily available to Roman and Jewish audiences. Paul, in his letter to the church in Galatia, uses this model to present a premeditated, self-chosen death meant to bring about a change in the cosmos. Watts, understanding the emotional attachment to the word, is careful to construct his argument based on a plethora of examples within Paul’s reach, if not the reach of Jesus. The concept of devotio is explored using recent scholarship and examples are drawn from Jewish and Roman sources with the intention to show that not only did Paul use it, but that it may help to solve some of the questions scholars have raised as to who gave Paul his language of the death of Jesus. Watts goes on to argue the gruesome act of a self-caused death would have not only been allowed even by Jewish sources, but also would have had theological speculation supplied by the history of the devotion so that with minimal description, Paul is able to use the act as a way to make his argument for his gospel in Galatians.

Author : Mark S. Gignilliat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567121455

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Paul and Isaiah's Servants by Mark S. Gignilliat Pdf

Paul's reading of the Old Testament continues to witness to the significance of reading the Old Testament in a Christian way. This study argues that a theological approach to understanding Paul's appeal to and reading of the Old Testament, especially Isaiah, offers important insights into the ways in which Christians should read the Old Testament and a two-testament canon today. By way of example, this study explores the ways in which Isaiah 40-66's canonical form presents the gospel in miniature with its movement from Israel to Servant to servants. It is subsequently argued that Paul follows this literary movement in his own theological reflection in 2 Corinthians 5:14-6:10. Jesus takes on the unique role and identity of the Servant of Isaiah 40-55, and Paul takes on the role of the servants of the Servant in Isaiah 53-66. From this exegetical exploration conclusions are drawn in the final chapter that seek to apply a term from the history of interpretation to Paul's reading, that is, the plain sense of Scripture. What does an appeal to plain sense broker? And does Paul's reading of the Old Testament look anything like a plain sense reading? Gignilliat concludes that Paul is reading the Old Testament in such a way that the literal sense and its figural potential and capacity are not divorced but are actually organically linked in what can be termed a plain sense reading.

Author : Johnathan F. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004680968

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Christ-faith and Abraham in Galatians 3–4 by Johnathan F. Harris Pdf

On what basis are Gentile Christians justified and full inheriting members of Abraham’s family? By being circumcised and keeping the Torah? Paul answers by reinterpreting the Abraham narrative in light of the Christ-event as a story of two siblings. True Abrahamic children are those whose Spirit-wrought life arises, as God promised Abraham, from the event of Christ-faith. Like Isaac, they receive the life-giving power of the Spirit that is tethered to God’s promise and the event of eschatological faith. By contrast, those who, like Ishmael, are related to Abraham only by means of the flesh are slaves and not heirs.

Author : Desta Heliso
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bible
ISBN : 316149511X

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Pistis and the Righteous One by Desta Heliso Pdf

Revised thesis (doctoral)--Brunel University and London School of Theology, London.