The Countercultural Victory Of 1 John In Greco Roman Context

Author : Ahreum Kim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567712103

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The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context by Ahreum Kim Pdf

Ahreum Kim re-examines conquering language in 1 John, arguing that when the letter is read with the context of Greco-Roman culture in mind, the conflict extends beyond in-fighting within the Johannine community. She suggests that the letter's author presents a consistent countercultural narrative due to concern about the predominant world, and proposes that the author exhorts the minority Johannine community to hold onto their belief while proclaiming that they are triumphant conquerors against the prevailing “world”. Kim first examines how conquering language toward a Johannine nike utilizes militaristic undertones already familiar in Greco-Roman culture. She argues that each of the opponents mentioned is affiliated with “the world”, and it is ultimately the conquering of the world itself which marks the Johannine victory. Kim demonstrates that the author references the negative fear of the divine in the polytheistic world which contrasts with the Johannine love of God, and that his countercultural message continues to the very end, with a concluding warning against the many worldly idols. Finally, she posits that the battle with the Greco-Roman world is ultimately a conflict of pistis, comparing Roman soldiers achieving military victories with a pistis to their emperor, and the repeated emphasis on Jesus as the true Son of God.

Author : Ahreum Kim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567712080

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The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context by Ahreum Kim Pdf

Ahreum Kim re-examines conquering language in 1 John, arguing that when the letter is read with the context of Greco-Roman culture in mind, the conflict extends beyond in-fighting within the Johannine community. She suggests that the letter's author presents a consistent countercultural narrative due to concern about the predominant world, and proposes that the author exhorts the minority Johannine community to hold onto their belief while proclaiming that they are triumphant conquerors against the prevailing “world”. Kim first examines how conquering language toward a Johannine nike utilizes militaristic undertones already familiar in Greco-Roman culture. She argues that each of the opponents mentioned is affiliated with “the world”, and it is ultimately the conquering of the world itself which marks the Johannine victory. Kim demonstrates that the author references the negative fear of the divine in the polytheistic world which contrasts with the Johannine love of God, and that his countercultural message continues to the very end, with a concluding warning against the many worldly idols. Finally, she posits that the battle with the Greco-Roman world is ultimately a conflict of pistis, comparing Roman soldiers achieving military victories with a pistis to their emperor, and the repeated emphasis on Jesus as the true Son of God.

Author : David Edward Aune,Frederick Brenk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004226548

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Greco-Roman Culture and the New Testament by David Edward Aune,Frederick Brenk Pdf

Focusing on a strength of the faculty of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, this volume is a collection of nine essays by an international group of scholars who have used texts from the Greco-Roman world to illuminate various aspects of the New Testament.

Author : Jonathan Numada
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725298163

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John and Anti-Judaism by Jonathan Numada Pdf

This study argues that the Gospel of John’s anti-Judaism can be well understood from the perspective of trends apparent within the context of broader Greco-Roman culture. It uses the paradigm of collective memory and aspects of social identity theory and self-categorization theory to explore the theological and narrative functions of the Johannine Jews. Relying upon a diverse range of historical testimony drawn from Greco-Roman literature, inscriptions, and papyri, this work attempts to understand the social identities and social locations of Diaspora Jews as a first step in reading John’s Gospel in the context of the political and social instability of the first century CE. It then attempts to understand John’s theology, its portrayal of Jewish social identity, and the narrative and theological functions of “the Jews” as a group character in light of this historical context. This work attempts to demonstrate that while John’s treatment of Jews and Judaism is multivalent at both social and theological levels, it is primarily focused upon strengthening a Christologically centered Christian identity while attempting to mitigate the attractiveness of Judaism as a religious competitor.

Author : Mark T. Finney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567386793

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Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World by Mark T. Finney Pdf

In this volume, Finney argues that the conflict in 1 Corinthians is driven by lust for honour and Paul's use of the paradigm of the cross. Studies in contemporary social anthropology have noted the importance of male honour and how this is able to generate ideas of social identity within a community and to elucidate patterns of social behaviour. Finney examines the letter of 1 Corinthians , which presents a unique expose of numerous aspects of social life in the first-century Greco-Roman world where honour was of central importance. At the same time, filotimia (the love and lust for honour) also had the capacity to generate an environment of competition, antagonism, factionalism, and conflict, all of which are clearly evident within the pages of 1 Corinthians . Finney seeks to examine the extent to which the social constraints of filotimia, and its potential for conflict, lay behind the many problems evident within the nascent Christ-movement at Corinth. Finney presents a fresh reading of the letter, and the thesis it proposes is that the honour-conflict model, hitherto overlooked in studies on 1 Corinthians , provides an appropriate and compelling framework within which to view the many disparate aspects of the letter in their social context. Formerly the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement , this is a book series that explores the many aspects of New Testament study including historical perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural and contextual approaches.

Author : Per Jarle Bekken
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004278684

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The Lawsuit Motif in John’s Gospel from New Perspectives by Per Jarle Bekken Pdf

In The Lawsuit Motif in John’s Gospel from New Perspectives Per Jarle Bekken sheds fresh light on aspects of the lawsuit motif in John from the background of Diaspora-Jewish and Greco-Roman data and perspectives

Author : Colleen Conway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190296001

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Behold the Man by Colleen Conway Pdf

In this book, Colleen Conway looks at the construction of masculinity in New Testament depictions of Jesus. She argues that the New Testament writers necessarily engaged the predominant gender ideology of the Roman Empire, whether consciously or unconsciously. Although the notion of what constituted ideal masculinity in Greek and Roman cultures certainly pre-dated the Roman Empire, the emergence of the Principate concentrated this gender ideology on the figure of the emperor. Indeed, critical to the success of the empire was the portrayal of the emperor as the ideal man and the Roman citizen as one who aspired to be the same. Any person who was held up alongside the emperor as another source of authority would be assessed in terms of the cultural values represented in this Roman image of the "manly man." Conway examines a variety of ancient ideas of masculinity, as found in philosophical discourses, medical treaties, imperial documents, and ancient inscriptions. Manliness, in these accounts, was achieved through self-control over passions such as lust, anger, and greed. It was also gained through manly displays of courage, the endurance of pain, and death on behalf of others. With these texts as a starting point, Conway shows how the New Testament writings approach Jesus' gender identity. From Paul's early letters to the Gospels and Acts, to the book of Revelation, Christian writings in the Bible confront the potentially emasculating scandal of the cross and affirm Jesus as ideally masculine. Conway's study touches on such themes as the relationship between divinity and masculinity; the role of the body in relation to gender identity; and belief in Jesus as a means of achieving a more ideal form of masculinity. This impeccably researched and highly readable book reveals the importance of ancient gender ideology for the interpretation of Christian texts.

Author : James S. Jeffers
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830815899

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The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era by James S. Jeffers Pdf

James S. Jeffers provides an informative tour of the various facets of the Roman world--class and status, family and community, work and leisure, religion and organization, city and country, law and government, death and taxes, and the events of Roman history.

Author : Josephine Massyngberde Ford
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015041014757

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Redeemer, Friend and Mother by Josephine Massyngberde Ford Pdf

How wide a range of ideas was used by early Christians to proclaim redemption through Jesus Christ? What did the followers of Jesus do about concepts of shame, death, suffering, forgiveness, and friendship? And how did their beliefs relate to the lives and thoughts of actual persons in the Graeco-Roman world including women? Author J. Massyngbaerde Ford opens a new vista on the ancient world of Bible times.

Author : Mark Alan Chancey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Civilization, Greco-Roman
ISBN : OCLC:851333749

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Greco-roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus by Mark Alan Chancey Pdf

Author : E. Earle Ellis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567688651

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1 Corinthians by E. Earle Ellis Pdf

This volume presents, in published form, the detailed commentary work of E. Earle Ellis on Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. At the time of his death Ellis had been working for many years on a volume for the International Critical Commentary on the epistle. Because Ellis was unable to complete the volume before his passing and had left instructions that it should not be completed, Terry Wilder instead presents Ellis' profound exegetical insights in the form of his completed commentary sections on 1 Corinthians, with minimal editorial intervention. In addition to collating Ellis' detailed critical commentary on 1 Corinthians chapters 1-13, with edited notes on chapter 14, Wilder has also completed an original editorial essay that provides a synthesis of Ellis' notes and thinking on chapters 15 and 16. Closely assessing the letter's address, salutation and thanksgiving and Paul's words on true and false wisdom, sexual relationships, liberty's boundaries and the regulation of church services, Ellis' final work is a crucial resource for a core New Testament text.

Author : Dean Flemming
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830874798

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Contextualization in the New Testament by Dean Flemming Pdf

Winner of a 2006 Christianity Today Book Award! Honored as one of the "Fifteen Outstanding Books of 2005 for Mission Studies" by International Bulletin of Missionary Research From Cairo to Calcutta, from Cochabamba to Columbus, Christians are engaged in a conversation about how to speak and live the gospel in today's traditional, modern and emergent cultures. The technical term for their efforts is contextualization. Missionary theorists have pondered and written on it at length. More and more, those who do theology in the West are also trying to discover new ways of communicating and embodying the gospel for an emerging postmodern culture. But few have considered in depth how the early church contextualized the gospel. And yet the New Testament provides numerous examples. As both a crosscultural missionary and a New Testament scholar, Dean Flemming is well equipped to examine how the early church contextualized the gospel and to draw out lessons for today. By carefully sifting the New Testament evidence, Flemming uncovers the patterns and parameters of a Paul or Mark or John as they spoke the Word on target, and he brings these to bear on our contemporary missiological task. Rich in insights and conversant with frontline thinking, this is a book that will revitalize the conversation and refresh our speaking and living the gospel in today's cultures, whether in traditional, modern or emergent contexts.

Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1481304755

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Destroyer of the Gods by Larry W. Hurtado Pdf

"Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity--including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue. Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in Destroyer of the gods, Christianity thrived despite its new and distinctive features and opposition to them. Unlike nearly all other religious groups, Christianity utterly rejected the traditional gods of the Roman world. Christianity also offered a new and different kind of religious identity, one not based on ethnicity. Christianity was distinctively a "bookish" religion, with the production, copying, distribution, and reading of texts as central to its faith, even preferring a distinctive book-form, the codex. Christianity insisted that its adherents behave differently: unlike the simple ritual observances characteristic of the pagan religious environment, embracing Christian faith meant a behavioral transformation, with particular and novel ethical demands for men. Unquestionably, to the Roman world, Christianity was both new and different, and, to a good many, it threatened social and religious conventions of the day. In the rejection of the gods and in the centrality of texts, early Christianity obviously reflected commitments inherited from its Jewish origins. But these particular features were no longer identified with Jewish ethnicity and early Christianity quickly became aggressively trans-ethnic--a novel kind of religious movement. Its ethical teaching, too, bore some resemblance to the philosophers of the day, yet in contrast with these great teachers and their small circles of dedicated students, early Christianity laid its hard demands upon all adherents from the moment of conversion, producing a novel social project. Christianity's novelty was no badge of honor. Called atheists and suspected of political subversion, Christians earned Roman disdain and suspicion in equal amounts. Yet, as Destroyer of the gods demonstrates, in an irony of history the very features of early Christianity that rendered it distinctive and objectionable in Roman eyes have now become so commonplace in Western culture as to go unnoticed. Christianity helped destroy one world and create another.

Author : John Piper,Wayne Grudem
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433573484

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Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Revised Edition) by John Piper,Wayne Grudem Pdf

A Guide to Navigate Evangelical Feminism In a society where gender roles are a hot-button topic, the church is not immune to the controversy. In fact, the church has wrestled with varying degrees of evangelical feminism for decades. As evangelical feminism has crept into the church, time-trusted resources like Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood help remind Christians of what the Bible has to say. In this edition of the award-winning best seller, more than 20 influential men and women such as John Piper, Wayne Grudem, D. A. Carson, and Elisabeth Elliot offer thought-provoking essays responding to the challenge egalitarianism poses to life in the church and in the home. Covering topics like role distinctions in the church, how biblical manhood and womanhood should work out in practice, and women in the history of the church, this helpful resource will help readers learn to orient their beliefs with God's unchanging word in an ever-changing culture.

Author : James Rochford
Publisher : New Paradigm Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0983668167

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Evidence Unseen by James Rochford Pdf

Evidence Unseen is the most accessible and careful though through response to most current attacks against the Christian worldview.