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Title Early Christianity in its Hellenistic context. Volume 2, Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism : social and literary contexts for the New Testament / edited by Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013

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Series Texts and editions for New Testament study, 1574-7085 ; v. 10
Texts and editions for New Testament study ; v. 10.
Contents Hellenistic Judaism and New Testament interpretation: an introductory essay / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- Hellenistic Jewish social contexts for Christian origins. Hellenism and Biblical canons: is there a connection? / Lee Martin McDonald -- Glorifying the present through the past: Herod the Great and his Jewish royal predecessors / Adam Kolman Marshak -- Beyond covenant nomism: revisiting Palestinian Judaism in light of pseudo-Philo's Biblical antiquities / Preston M. Sprinkle -- Resurrection and immortality in Hellenistic Judaism: navigating the conceptual boundaries / C.D. Elledge -- The spirit in second temple Jewish monotheism and the origins of early Christology / Andrew W. Pitts and Seth Pollinger -- The ethnic context of Paul's letters / Christopher D. Stanley -- Is Saul of Tarsus also among the prophets? Paul's calling as prophetic divine commissioning / Tony Costa -- Monotheism and philosophy: notes on the concept of God in Philo and Paul (Romans 1:18-21) / Peter Frick -- Paul beyond the Judaism/Hellenism divide? The case of Pauline anthropology in Romans 7 and 2 Corinthians 4-5 / Emma Wasserman -- Hellenistic Jewish literary and religious contexts for Christian origins. Was John the Baptist a member of the Qumran community? Once more / Stanley E. Porter -- The temple attitudes of John and Qumran in the light of Hellenistic Judaism / Wally V. Cirafesi -- Rhetoric and the art of persuasion in the Wisdom of Solomon/ Leo G. Perdue
Dialectics: philosophical and Talmudic / Jacob Neusner -- Ancient science fiction: journeys into space and visions of the world in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman literature of antiquity / Catherine Hezser -- Luke, Josephus, and self-definition: the genre of Luke-Acts and its relationship to apologetic historiography and collected biography / Sean A. Adams -- Rivers, springs, and wells of living water: metaphorical transformation in the Johannine corpus / Beth M. Stovell -- Martyr theology in Hellenistic Judaism and Paul's conception of Jesus' death in Romans 3:21-26 / Jarvis J. Williams -- Torah instruction, discussion, and prophecy in first-century synagogues / Carl Mosser -- On the trail of Trypho: two fragmentary Jewish-Christian dialogues from the ancient church / William Varner
Notes "This is the second of three volumes that we have compiled focusing on the ancient world and the New Testament. We have given them the collective name of Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context"--Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Apr. 24, 2013)
SUBJECT Bible. New Testament -- Socio-rhetorical criticism
Bible. New Testament fast
Subject Christianity -- Origin.
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- New Testament.
Socio-rhetorical criticism of sacred works
Christianity -- Origin
Form Electronic book
Author Porter, Stanley E., 1956-
E.J. Brill (Firm) Humanities and Social Sciences 2013
ISBN 9789004236394
9004236392
Other Titles Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism