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Pauls Language Of Grace In Its Graeco Roman Context
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Book Synopsis Paul's Language of Grace in its Graeco-Roman Context by : James R. Harrison
Download or read book Paul's Language of Grace in its Graeco-Roman Context written by James R. Harrison and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul’s Language of Grace in Its Graeco-Roman Context was originally published by Mohr Siebeck in 2003 and is now reprinted by Wipf and Stock with a new introduction by its author, James R. Harrison. The book was the first major investigation of charis (‘grace’, ‘favor’) in its social, political, and religious context since G. P. Wetter’s pioneering 1913 monograph on the topic. Focusing on the evidence of the inscriptions, papyri, philosophers, and Greek Jewish literature, Harrison examined the operations of the eastern Mediterranean benefaction system, probing the dynamic of reciprocity between the beneficiary and benefactor, whether human or divine. Before Paul’s converts were first exposed to the gospel, they would have held a variety of beliefs regarding the beneficence of the gods. The apostle, therefore, needed to tailor his language of grace as much to the theological and social concerns of the Mediterranean city-states in his missionary outreach as to the variegated traditions of first-century Judaism. In terms of human grace, although Paul endorses the reciprocity system, he redefines its rationale in light of the gospel of grace and transforms its social expression in his house churches. The explosion of ‘grace’ language that occurs in 2 Corinthians 8–9 regarding the Jerusalem collection is unusual in its frequency in comparison to the honorific inscriptions, underscoring the apostle’s distinctive approach to giving. Regarding divine beneficence, Paul accommodates his gospel to contemporary benefaction idiom. But he retains a distinctiveness of viewpoint regarding divine charis: it is non-cultic; it is mediated through a dishonored and impoverished Benefactor; it overturns the do ut des expectation (‘I give so that you may give’) regarding divine blessing in antiquity. Harrison’s book still remains the authoritative coverage of the Graeco-Roman context of charis.
Book Synopsis Enabling Fidelity to God by : Jason A. Whitlark
Download or read book Enabling Fidelity to God written by Jason A. Whitlark and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this book is to demonstrate how Hebrews represents, in view of its historical and religious context, human fidelity to God. Thus, the basic thesis is twofold. First, with regard to the divine-human relationship in the ancient Mediterranean world, the belief in the reciprocity rationale was one primary dynamic for establishing fidelity to a relationship and has been applied by some scholars, such as David deSilva, to Hebrews as the way to understand its strategy for creating perseverance. A major problem with the application of this dynamic is that a common optimistic anthropological assumption is associated with the various reciprocity systems in the ancient world, both Jewish and pagan. This assumption is required if reciprocity is to be effective for establishing ongoing fidelity. Second, there was, however, a middle Judaic stream that can be traced from the period of the exile which held to a pessimistic anthropology. This anthropological assumption crippled the perceived success of reciprocity to secure fidelity. Thus, the solution to God's people's inability to remain faithful was an act of God that transformed the human condition and enabled faithfulness to the relationship. The argument of this book is that Hebrews, with its emphasis upon the inauguration of the new covenant by Jesus' high priestly ministry, belongs to this latter stream of thought in understanding how fidelity is secured between God and his people. Hebrews, thus, implicitly rejects the rationale of reciprocity for fidelity. The implications of this offers a fresh perspective on the soteriology of Hebrews.
Book Synopsis Paul and the Gift by : John M. G. Barclay
Download or read book Paul and the Gift written by John M. G. Barclay and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Barclay explores Pauline theology anew from the perspective of grace. Arguing that Paul's theology of grace is best approached in light of ancient notions of "gift," Barclay describes Paul's relationship to Judaism in a fresh way. Barclay focuses on divine gift-giving, which for Paul, he says, is focused and fulfilled in the gift of Christ. He both offers a new appraisal of Paul's theology of the Christ-event as gift as it comes to expression in Galatians and Romans and presents a nuanced and detailed consideration of the history of reception of Paul, including Augustine, Luther, Calvin, and Barth.
Book Synopsis Paul and the Imperial Authorities at Thessalonica and Rome by : James R. Harrison
Download or read book Paul and the Imperial Authorities at Thessalonica and Rome written by James R. Harrison and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James R. Harrison investigates the collision between Paul's eschatological gospel and the Julio-Claudian conception of rule. The ruler's propaganda, with its claim about the 'eternal rule' of the imperial house over its subjects, embodied in idolatry of power that conflicted with Paul's proclamation of the reign of the risen Son of God over his world. This ideological conflict is examined in 1 and 2 Thessalonians and in Romans, exploring how Paul's eschatology intersected with the imperial cult in the Greek East and in the Latin West. A wide selection of evidence - literary, documentary, numismatic, iconographic, archeological - unveils the 'symbolic universe' of the Julio-Claudian rulers. This construction of social and cosmic reality stood at odds with the eschatological denouement of world history, which, in Paul's view, culminated in the arrival of God's new creation upon Christ's return as Lord of all. Paul exalted the Body of Christ over Nero's 'body of state', transferring to the risen and ascended Jesus many of the ruler's titles and to the Body of Christ many of the ruler's functions. Thus, for Paul, Christ's reign challenged the values of Roman society and transformed its hierarchical social relations through the Spirit.
Book Synopsis Paul and his Theology by : Stanley E. Porter
Download or read book Paul and his Theology written by Stanley E. Porter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of fifteen essays by an international group of scholars on a variety of topics in Pauline theology. These include his gentile mission, the concepts of faith, grace, and the law, reconciliation, the temple, eschatology, miracles, gender, and Paul's trinitarian tendencies.
Book Synopsis Paul’s Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature by : Paul Robertson
Download or read book Paul’s Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature written by Paul Robertson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Paul Robertson re-describes Paul’s letters in a way that facilitates empirical comparison with other understudied texts, and theorizes a new taxonomy of the Greco-Roman literary landscape of the ancient Mediterranean.
Book Synopsis Paul and the Dynamics of Power by : Kathy Ehrensperger
Download or read book Paul and the Dynamics of Power written by Kathy Ehrensperger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating study Kathy Ehrensperger looks at the question of Paul's use of power and authority as an apostle who understands himself as called to proclaim the Gospel among the gentiles. Ehrensperger examines the broad range of perspectives on how this use of power should be evaluated. These range from the traditional interpretation of unquestioned, taken for granted for a church leader, to a feminist interpretation. She examines whether or not Paul's use of power presents an open or hidden re-inscription of hierarchical structures in what was previously a discipleship of equals. Paul and the Dynamics of Power questions whether such hierarchical tendencies are rightly identified within Paul's discourse of power. Furthermore it considers whether these are inherently and necessarily expressions of domination and control and are thus in opposition to a 'discipleship of equals'? In her careful analysis Ehrensperger draws on such wide-ranging figures as Derrida, Michel Foucault and James Scott. This enables fresh insights into Paul's use of authority and power in its first century context.
Book Synopsis Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Volume 19 by : Stanley E. Porter
Download or read book Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Volume 19 written by Stanley E. Porter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the nineteenth volume of the hard-copy edition of a journal that has been published online (www.jgrchj.net) since 2000. The scope of JGRChJ is the texts, languages and cultures of the Greco-Roman world of early Christianity and Judaism. The papers published in JGRChJ are designed to pay special attention to the ‘larger picture’ of politics, culture, religion and language, engaging as well with modern theoretical approaches.
Book Synopsis Paul and Philosophy by : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Download or read book Paul and Philosophy written by Troels Engberg-Pedersen and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Paul's 'Spirit of Adoption' in its Roman Imperial Context by : Robert Brian Lewis
Download or read book Paul's 'Spirit of Adoption' in its Roman Imperial Context written by Robert Brian Lewis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Paul and His Social Relations by : Stanley E. Porter
Download or read book Paul and His Social Relations written by Stanley E. Porter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses many of the questions surrounding Paul and his social relations, including how to define and analyze such relations, their relationship to Paul's historical and social context, how Paul related to numerous friends and foes, and the implications for understanding Paul's letters as well as his theology.
Book Synopsis Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography by : Lutz Doering
Download or read book Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography written by Lutz Doering and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2012 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides the most extensive analysis available of ancient Jewish letter writing from the Persian period until the early rabbinic literature. In addition, he demonstrates the significance of Jewish letters for the development of early Christian letter writing.
Book Synopsis Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook by : J. Paul Sampley
Download or read book Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook written by J. Paul Sampley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark handbook, written by distinguished Pauline scholars, and first published in 2003, remains the first and only work to offer lucid and insightful examinations of Paul and his world in such depth. Together the two volumes that constitute the handbook in its much revised form provide a comprehensive reference resource for new testament scholars looking to understand the classical world in which Paul lived and work. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular social convention, literary of rhetorical topos, social practice, or cultural mores of the world in which Paul and his audiences were at home. In addition, the sections use carefully chosen examples to demonstrate how particularly features of Greco-Roman culture shed light on Paul's letters and on his readers' possible perception of them. For the new edition all the contributions have been fully revised to take into account the last ten years of methodological change and the helpful chapter bibliographies fully updated. Wholly new chapters cover such issues as Paul and Memory, Paul's Economics, honor and shame in Paul's writings and the Greek novel.
Download or read book Paul and Patronage written by Joshua Rice and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of how leadership and authority functioned in the Pauline church remains one of the most polarizing issues in New Testament scholarship today. On the one side are egalitarian and counterimperial readings that stake their interpretation of the liberating gospel upon a depiction of the Pauline church as radically countercultural with regard to leadership and authority. On the other side are authoritarian readings that just as easily conceive of Paul as fully embedded within the cultural conceptions and structures of leadership and authority in vogue across the Greco-Roman world. This study employs social-science criticism to construct a model of ancient patronage conventions and power-exchange dynamics in the Greco-Roman world, and this model is then applied to 1 Corinthians. This study finds that when Paul addresses his own apostolic relationship to the Corinthians, he tends toward reinscribing traditional hierarchies, but that when Paul addresses relationships between participants of the Corinthian assembly, he tends toward overturning them.
Book Synopsis Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit by : James R. Harrison
Download or read book Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit written by James R. Harrison and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study, James R. Harrison compares the modern cult of celebrity to the quest for glory in late republican and early imperial society. He shows how Paul's ethic of humility, based upon the crucified Christ, stands out in a world obsessed with mutual comparison, boasting, and self-sufficiency." --
Download or read book The Apostle Paul written by Porter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are many introductions to the life, thought, and letters of Paul the apostle. Some concentrate upon his life, while others focus upon his thought, and still others on his letters. A few of them, like this book, try to integrate all three of them -- including on occasion material from the book of Acts -- into a useful portrait of the man and what he said and thought as revealed through his letters." - from preface.
Book Synopsis The First Christians in the Roman World by : E. A. Judge
Download or read book The First Christians in the Roman World written by E. A. Judge and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2008 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of previously published essays and lectures.
