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The Colossian Hymn in Context

Author : Matthew E. Gordley
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161492556
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Colossian Hymn in Context written by Matthew E. Gordley and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suggestion that the New Testament contains citations of early Christological hymns has long been a controversial issue in New Testament scholarship. As a way of advancing this facet of New Testament research, Matthew E. Gordley examines the Colossian hymn (Col 1:15-20) in light of its cultural and epistolary contexts. As a result of a broad comparative analysis, he claims that Col 1:15-20 is a citation of a prose-hymn which represents a fusion of Jewish and Greco-Roman conventions for praising an exalted figure. A review of hymns in the literature of Second Temple Judaism demonstrates that the Colossian hymn owes a number of features to Jewish modes of praise. Likewise, a review of hymns in the broader Greco-Roman world demonstrates that the Colossian hymn is equally indebted to conventions used for praising the divine in the Greco-Roman tradition. In light of these hymnic traditions of antiquity, the analysis of the form and content of the Colossian hymn shows how the passage fits well into a Greco-Roman context, and indicates that it is best understood as a quasi-philosophical prose-hymn cited in the context of a paraenetic letter. Finally, in view of ancient epistolary and rhetorical theory and practice, an analysis of the role of the hymn in Colossians suggests that the hymn serves a number of significant rhetorical functions throughout the remainder of the letter.

Singing Reconciliation: Inhabiting the Moral Life According to Colossians 3:16

Author : Amy Whisenand Krall
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004682538
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Singing Reconciliation: Inhabiting the Moral Life According to Colossians 3:16 by : Amy Whisenand Krall

Download or read book Singing Reconciliation: Inhabiting the Moral Life According to Colossians 3:16 written by Amy Whisenand Krall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letter to the Colossians contains a series of moral instructions in Colossians 3:12-17 and includes the admonition to "sing" among them. This study considers how music-making (specifically singing) supports moral formation according to the letter to the Colossians. Studies in ethnomusicology, anthropology of the voice, and music psychology offer useful frameworks for conceptualizing how a social practice like music-making forms participants into a community and shapes how they know themselves, their community, and the world. With the aid of these frameworks, we find that the singing in Colossians 3:16, as a corporate, vocal practice of music-making, enables the members of the church community to inhabit the story of reconciliation found in the Christ Hymn (Col 1:15-20).

New Testament Christological Hymns

Author : Matthew E. Gordley
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083088002X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis New Testament Christological Hymns by : Matthew E. Gordley

Download or read book New Testament Christological Hymns written by Matthew E. Gordley and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know that the earliest Christians sang hymns. Paul encourages believers to sing "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs." And at the dawn of the second century the Roman official Pliny names a feature of Christian worship as "singing alternately a hymn to Christ as to God." But are some of these early Christian hymns preserved for us in the New Testament? Are they right before our eyes? New Testament scholars have long debated whether early Christian hymns appear in the New Testament. And where some see preformed hymns and liturgical elements embossed on the page, others see patches of rhetorically elevated prose from the author's hand. Matthew Gordley now reopens this fascinating question. He begins with a new look at hymns in the Greco-Roman and Jewish world of the early church. Might the didactic hymns of those cultural currents set a new starting point for talking about hymnic texts in the New Testament? If so, how should we detect these hymns? How might they function in the New Testament? And what might they tell us about early Christian worship? An outstanding feature of texts such as Philippians 2:6-11, Colossians 1:15-20, and John 1:1-17 is their christological character. And if these are indeed hymns, we encounter the reality that within the crucible of worship the deepest and most searching texts of the New Testament arose. New Testament Christological Hymns reopens an important line of investigation that will serve a new generation of students of the New Testament.

Teaching Through Song in Antiquity

Author : Matthew E. Gordley
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161507229
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Through Song in Antiquity written by Matthew E. Gordley and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While scholars of antiquity have long spoken of didactic hymns, no single volume has defined or explored this phenomenon across cultural boundaries in antiquity. In this monograph Matthew E. Gordley provides a broad definition of didactic hymnody and examines how didactic hymns functioned at the intersection of historical circumstances and the needs of a given community to perceive itself and its place in the cosmos and to respond accordingly. Comparing the use of didactic hymnody in a variety of traditions, this study illuminates the multifaceted ways that ancient hymns and psalms contributed to processes of communal formation among the human audiences that participated in the praise either as hearers or active participants. The author finds that in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian contexts, many hymns and prayers served a didactic role fostering the ongoing development of a sense of identity within particular communities.

Colossians and Philemon

Author : David W. Pao
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310532140
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Colossians and Philemon written by David W. Pao and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series is designed for those who know biblical languages. It is written primarily for the pastor and Bible teacher, not for the scholar. That is, the aim is not to review and offer a critique of every possible interpretation that has ever been given to a passage, but to exegete each passage of Scripture succinctly in its grammatical and historical context. Each passage is interpreted in the light of its biblical setting, with a view to grammatical detail, literary context, flow of biblical argument, and historical setting. While the focus will not be on application, it is expected that the authors will offer suggestions as to the direction in which application can flow.

The Letter to the Colossians

Author : Scot McKnight
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467447064
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis The Letter to the Colossians by : Scot McKnight

Download or read book The Letter to the Colossians written by Scot McKnight and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letter to the Colossians offers a compelling vision of the Christian life; its claims transcend religion and bring politics, culture, spirituality, power, ethnicity, and more into play. Delving deeply into the message of Colossians, this exegetical and theological commentary by Scot McKnight will be welcomed by preachers, teachers, and students everywhere.

The Firstborn Son in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Author : Kyu Seop Kim
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900439494X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Firstborn Son in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity by : Kyu Seop Kim

Download or read book The Firstborn Son in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity written by Kyu Seop Kim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a study of the meaning of the firstborn son in the New Testament paying specific attention to the concept of primogeniture in the Old Testament and Jewish literature.

Colossae, Colossians, Philemon

Author : Alan H. Cadwallader
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 364750002X
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis Colossae, Colossians, Philemon by : Alan H. Cadwallader

Download or read book Colossae, Colossians, Philemon written by Alan H. Cadwallader and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material culture of Colossae is here for the first time given as full a collation as possible to the present day. 38 inscriptions, 88 coins and 49 testimonia are brought together in the context of a thorough overview of the site of Colossae. These include evidence that has been thought lost or has been overlooked or misinterpreted or has only recently been discovered. New readings, insights and analyses of the material evidence are brought into a highly creative exchange with the two letters of the Second Testament connected with the site. The texts thereby become additional evidence for an appreciation of the life of a city in the first two centuries of the Common Era. The fullest collation of evidence for the ancient Phrygian city in the Greco-Roman period was the coin catalogue assembled by Hans von Aulock (1987). The most recent catalogue of the inscriptions of Colossae was published by William Calder and William Buckler in 1939. There has never been a full inventory of ancient writings that bear witness to the site. Alan H. Cadwallader in his volume not only updates this material by subjecting it to thorough, critical analysis in the light of comparative evidence from across the Roman province of Asia and the Mediterranean world. New discoveries from the site and from museums and collections in the United Kingdom, Europe, Russia, Australia and the United States are introduced. Into this assemblage and interpretation are brought the letters to the Colossians and Philemon in the Second Testament writings of the Christian Church. For the first time, the letters are released to be players in the highly competitive environment of a city negotiating its way in the new realities of imperial Rome. Here the letters and their recipients become participants in the society of the day, contributing, critiquing and struggling to forge an identity for the Christ followers within that world. Echoes of the gymnasium, gladiatorial spectacles, cosmological speculations, religious devotion and sanction, family structures, commerce and industry, struggles for justice, intercity competition and legal negotiations are found in the letters, echoes that witness to their participation in the life of Colossae. This is a radical new approach, incorporating the turn to material culture as the embedding of literature and its consumers rather than an embellishing backdrop.

The Crucified King

Author : Jeremy R. Treat
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310516668
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Crucified King written by Jeremy R. Treat and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kingdom of God and the atonement are two of the most important themes in all of Scripture. Tragically, theologians have often either set the two at odds or focused on one to the complete neglect of the other. In The Crucified King, Jeremy Treat demonstrates that Scripture presents a mutually enriching relationship between the kingdom and atonement that draws significantly from the story of Israel and culminates in the crucifixion of Christ the king. As Israel’s messiah, he holds together the kingdom and the cross by bringing God’s reign on earth through his atoning death. The kingdom is the ultimate goal of the cross, and the cross is the means by which the kingdom comes. Jesus’ death is not the failure of his messianic ministry, nor simply the prelude to his royal glory, but is the apex of his kingdom mission. The cross is the throne from which he rules and establishes his kingdom. Using a holistic approach that brings together the insights of biblical and systematic theology, this book demonstrates not only that the kingdom and the cross are inseparable, but how they are integrated in Scripture and theology.

Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions, Volume 1

Author : Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0227177207
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions, Volume 1 written by Mark A. Lamport and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hymns and the music the church sings are tangible means of expressing worship. And while worship is one of, if not the, central functions of the church along with mission, service, education, justice, and compassion, and occupies a prime focus of our churches, a renewed sense of awareness to our theological presuppositions and cultural cues must be maintained to ensure a proper focus in worship. Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions is an introductory textbook in three volumes describing the most influential hymnists, liturgists, and musical movements of the church. This academically grounded resource evaluates both the historical and theological perspectives of the major hymnists and composers that have impacted the church over the course of twenty centuries. Volume 1 explores the early church and concludes with the Renaissance era hymnists. Each chapter contains five elements: historical background, theological perspectives communicated in their hymns/compositions, contribution to liturgy and worship, notable hymns, and bibliography. The missions of Hymns and Hymnody are to provide biographical data on influential hymn writers for students and interested laypeople, and to provide a theological analysis of what the cited composers have communicated in the theology of their hymns. It is vital for those involved in leading the worship of the church to recognize that what they communicate is in fact theology. This latter aspect is missing in accessible formats for the current literature.

Colossians and Philemon

Author : Murray J. Harris
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805448497
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Colossians and Philemon written by Murray J. Harris and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of twenty projected volumes in the Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament series, helping students and pastors alike to understand and expound the Greek text.

Colossians: An Earth Bible Commentary

Author : Victoria S. Balabanski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567674401
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Colossians: An Earth Bible Commentary written by Victoria S. Balabanski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vicky Balabanski analyses Colossians as a co-authored letter, written during Paul's Roman imprisonment by Timothy with the input of Epaphras, and sent with Paul's introductory and concluding greetings. Balabanski sees remarkable resonances between the cosmology of this letter and that of Stoic thought, the most widely held philosophy in first century Asia Minor. Drawing upon the way Stoic thinkers saw the divine Spirit permeating reality and sought to attune their lives to the Logos, divine reason, she argues that the Logos of Christ – the Gospel – was welcomed by small groups of people shaped by Stoic thought, and they experienced Christ as the visible expression of the One God who permeates reality. The Letter to the Colossians has the highest view of Christ of any of the New Testament writings, and its theology of divine permeation invites us to notice the ecological potential of this letter. This Eco-Stoic reading brings contemporary ecological questions into dialogue with the distinctive Christology and cosmology of the letter.

Between Text and Text

Author : Michaela Bauks
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647550256
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Between Text and Text written by Michaela Bauks and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intertextuality research of antique texts and their reception in Medieval and modern times is the subject of this volume: (1) What is a text and what is an intertext? This concerns the various different forms of text and how they present themselves in architecture, iconography, lexicography, the study of lists, etc. (2) Forms of intertextuality – on the relationship between writtenness and oralness, how oral texts are objectified during textualisation and become fixed acts of speech (K. Ehlich), how especially antique texts were shaped by the continual interconnectedness of oral and written traditions. (3) What is understood in ancient Oriental and antique literature by "tradition" and "transmission"? To this end, the research includes languages, historical reality and antique thought structures, making clear that the transferral of tradition occurs not only within a close cultural circle, but in the exchange with neighbouring cultures over large distances and geographic boundaries. (4) On the relationship between intertextuality and canon. A number of contributions study this aspect of ongoing historical debate as it often found for culturally definitive and canonised texts – a necessary part of the their rejuvination process. Contributions by M. Bauks, A. Lange / Z. Plese, Ph. Alexandre, S. Aufrère, M. Oeming, K. Davidowicz, A. Wagner, G. Selz, M.F. Meyer, L. Roig Lanzillotta, M. Dimitrova, F. Waldman, W. Horowitz, M. Risch, J. van Ruiten, L. Bormann, A. Miltenova, J. Taschner, G. Brooke, G. Dorival, A. Harder and S. Alkier.

Completing Christ's Afflictions

Author : Bruce T. Clark
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161533341
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Completing Christ's Afflictions written by Bruce T. Clark and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between the preeminent, cosmos-reconciling 'Christ' of Col 1:15-20 and the imprisoned 'Paul' of 1:24-29, who enigmatically 'completes' the former's afflictions as he declares to 'every person' the mystery, long concealed but only now revealed by Israel's God to his holy ones? After finding solid exegetical ground through an unprecedented and exhaustive study of the rare verb antanapleroo (in 1.24), Bruce Clark tackles this most intriguing, if challenging question. He argues that Col 1, in accord with 2 Cor 5:18-6:4, presents Paul as the utterly unique diakonos ('minister') of the universal ekklesia and, therefore, as one whose afflictions uniquely complete Christ's own, so that together, revealing the righteousness of God, they initiate the divine reconciliation of 'all things.'

Die Herrlichkeit des Gekreuzigten

Author : Jörg Frey
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161507823
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Die Herrlichkeit des Gekreuzigten written by Jörg Frey and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2013 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auf dem Weg zu einer ausfuhrlichen Kommentierung des Johannesevangeliums bietet der Band Vorstudien und Aufsatze aus 15 Jahren zur Auseinandersetzung mit den klassischen Modellen der Johannesauslegung, zur Frage nach dem religionsgeschichtlichen Hintergrund und Kontext des Johannesevangeliums, insbesondere seinem Verhaltnis zu den Qumran-Texten und zu den synoptischen Evangelien, zum Profil der Adressatengemeinden und zur Interpretation des Bildes der `Juden` im Johannesevangelium. Weitere Beitrage behandeln die Brotmetapher in Joh 6 und die Bedeutung und Funktion der dualistischen Sprachelemente, die spezifische Form der johanneischen Kreuzestheologie und die Modelle der Deutungen des Todes Jesu im vierten Evangelium, die Frage nach dem bleibenden Geschichtsbezug des Heils und nach der Bedeutung desDoxa-Motivs, die eschatologischen Traditionen und ihre Interpretation, die Bedeutung der Leiblichkeit, den inneren Zusammenhang der johanneischen Liebes-Aussagen und die Ansatze einer Ethik im vierten Evangelium.

A Heavenly Chorus

Author : Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161531262
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book A Heavenly Chorus written by Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim that Revelation's hymns function as did Classical tragic choral lyrics insofar as they comment upon or interpret the surrounding narrative has become axiomatic in studies of Revelation. Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler marks an advance in this line of inquiry by offering an exegetical analysis of Revelation's hymns alongside a presentation of the forms and functions of ancient tragic choruses and choral lyrics. Evaluating the hymns in light of the varieties and complexities of ancient tragic choruses, he demonstrate that they are not best evaluated in terms of choral lyrics generally, but in terms of dramatic hymns in particular, insofar as they constitute mythological-theological reflections on the surrounding narrative, and function to situate the surrounding dramatic activity in a particular mythological-theological contexts.

Exotheology

Author : Joel L. Parkyn
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718896688
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Exotheology written by Joel L. Parkyn and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, theology has frequently gone hand in hand with the study of the heavens. Speculation regarding the plurality of worlds, and the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth, has posed questions for, and been stimulated by, Christian theology. Advancements in astronomy and astrophysics now reveal a vast universe containing trillions of galaxies. Each new exoplanet discovered brings with it a new context in which to consider the place of humanity, and the role of divinity in relation to creatures. In particular, the Christian doctrines of the incarnation and redemption must be understood afresh in light of the likelihood of extraterrestrial life. In Exotheology, Joel L. Parkyn examines the twin historic developments in scientific and theological thought on extraterrestrials from antiquity to the twenty-first century. In doing so he demonstrates a consistent pattern of theological formulations that allow for a distinct relation between Christianity and extraterrestrial life, but this has so far been without sufficient resolution. Applying concepts from anthropology, psychology and sociology to putative extraterrestrials, he explores in new depth the implications of contact, and argues for a 'divine pedagogy' of potential modalities of supernatural presence and action with extraterrestrial intelligences.