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Title Greco-Roman culture and the New Testament : studies commemorating the centennial of the Pontifical Biblical Institute / edited by David E. Aune, Frederick E. Brenk
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrations
Series Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; v. 143
Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 143. 0167-9732
Contents Introduction / Frederick E. Brenk -- The role of rhetorical elaboration in the formation of Mark's Passion narrative (Mark 14:43-16:8) : an enquiry / Justin Taylor -- Logos and pneuma in the Fourth Gospel / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- The enigma of imperial cultic activities and Paul in Corinth / Bruce W. Winter -- Pauline Paraenesis in Romans 12 and Greek gnomic wisdom / Dieter Zeller -- Most beautiful and divine : Graeco-Romans (especially Plutarch) and Paul, on love and marriage / Frederick E. Brenk -- Clement of Alexandria on woman and marriage in the light of the New Testament household codes / Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils -- Traveling up and away : journeys to the upper and outer regions of the world / Adela Yarbro Collins -- The polyvalent imagery of Rev 3:20 in the light of Greco-Egyptian divination texts / David E. Aune -- The Sibyl and the apocalypses : generic relationships in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity / John J. Collins
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Pontificio Istituto biblico.
SUBJECT Pontificio Istituto biblico fast
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. New Testament fast
Subject Christianity and culture -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- New Testament.
Christian literature, Early
Christianity and culture -- Early church
Civilization, Greco-Roman
Genre/Form Festschriften
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Aune, David E. (David Edward)
Brenk, Frederick E.
Pontificio Istituto biblico.
LC no. 2011052729
ISBN 9004226540
9789004226548
Other Titles Graeco-Roman culture and the New Testament