Grace, Reconciliation, Concord

The Death of Christ in Graeco-Roman Metaphors
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18608-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 135, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

Reihe: Novum Testamentum, Supplements

How did the first Christians interpret the death of Christ? The answer lies within the earliest Christian documents, primarily within the Pauline letters. Before the users of a modern language could hope to come near an adequate description of what was expressed in these Greek texts of the first Christians, they have to deconstruct layers of later dogmatic interpretation. They need to keep to descriptive terminology reflecting the Greek of the sources and to trace the origin of the metaphoric language early Christians like Paul used. This volume sets out to construct some of the Jewish and Greco-Roman patterns of thought which were initially utilised to express the meaning of the death of Christ.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breytenbach, Cilliers

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Historisch-Kritische Jesusforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction. Rephrasing the “Foolish” Word of the Cross

Part One: Pre-Pauline and Pauline Interpretation of Christ’s Death
1. Versöhnung, Stellvertretung und „Sühne“: Semantische und traditionsgeschichtliche Bemerkungen am Beispiel der paulinischen Briefe
2. Gnädigstimmen und Gnädigsein in urchristlichen Texten
3. The “for Us” Phrases in Pauline Soteriology: Considering Their Background and Use
4. The Septuagint Version of Isaiah 53 and the Early Christian Formula “He Was Delivered for Our Trespasses”
5. „Christus starb für uns“: Zur Tradition und paulinischen Rezeption der sogenannten „Sterbeformeln“

Part Two: God’s Grace, Reconciliation, Triumph and Salvation in Paul’s Letters
6. Der einzige Gott—Vater der Barmherzigkeit: Toratexte als Grundlage des paulinischen Redens von Gott
7. Der Danksagungsbericht des Paulus über den Gottesglauben der Thessalonicher (1 Thess 1:2–10)
8. Salvation of the Reconciled (With a Note on the Background of Paul’s Metaphor of Reconciliation)
9. Paul’s Proclamation and God’s “Thriambos” (Notes on 2 Corinthians 2:14–16b)
10. “Charis” and “Eleos” in Paul’s Letter to the Romans
11. “For in Hope We Were Saved”: Discerning Time in Paul’s Letter to the Romans

Part Three: Post-Pauline Salvation
12. „Christus litt euretwegen“: Zur Rezeption von JesajaLXX 53 und anderen frühjüdischen Traditionen im 1. Petrusbrief
13. Forgiveness in Early Christian Tradition
14. Civic Concord and Cosmic Harmony: Sources of Metaphoric Mapping in 1 Clement 20:3

Part Four: Paulus Africanus
15. Die Identität eines Christenmenschen—im Anschluss an Paulus
16. “Not According to Human Criteria”: Bernard Lategan’s Reading of Galatians in a Crumbling Apartheid State

Index of Modern Authors/Persons
Index of Ancient Sources (Selection)
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Cilliers Breytenbach, Dr. theol. (1983) Dr. theol. habil. (1986) both at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, is Professor for the Literature, Religion and History of Early Christianity at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Professor extra ordinary for New Testament at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of monographs on Mark, Paul and the Acts of the Apostles.