Paul's World

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16272-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Reihe: Pauline Studies

This volume is concerned with Paul's world. The major question to ask is—what is that world of Paul? In determinable ways, Paul's world is everything in the world in which Paul lived and acted, and hence virtually everything that Paul did. In other words, Paul's world can be defined macrocosmically and microcosmically. As the term is defined in the various essays in this volume, Paul's world includes the surrounding environment in which Paul functioned, including its various religious, social, cultural, literary, rhetorical, linguistic and related phenomena. This volume treats some of the most important and germane factors that went into making up the world in which Paul lived, and that consequently defined who he was and became.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, Stanley E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations

Defining the Parameters of Paul’s World: An Introduction
Stanley E. Porter

The Problem of Paul’s Social Class: Further Reflections
Ronald F. Hock

Hellenistic Schools in Jerusalem and Paul’s Rhetorical Education
Andrew W. Pitts

Greco-Roman Concepts of Deity
Ron C. Fay

Paul and the Athletic Ideal in Antiquity: A Case Study in Wrestling with Word and Image
Jim Harrison

Crucifixion in the Ancient World: A Response to L.L. Welborn
Sean A. Adams

The Languages that Paul Did Not Speak
Stanley E. Porter

Paul at the Ball: Eccclesia Victor and the Cosmic Defeat of Personified Evil in Romans 16:20
Michael J. Thate

Paul, the Cults in Corinth, and the Corinthian Correspondence
Panayotis Coutsoumpos

Ephesians 5:18-19 and Religious Intoxication in the World of Paul
Craig A. Evans

The Letter to Philemon: A Discussion with J. Albert Harrill
Tobias Nicklas

Some Rhetorical Techniques in Acts 24:2-21
Craig S. Keener

Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988) in Biblical Studies and Linguistics, the University of Sheffield, is President, Dean and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has published extensively in New Testament and related subjects. He has also edited the first three volumes in the Pauline Studies series, The Pauline Canon (Brill, 2004), Paul and His Opponents (Brill, 2005), and Paul and His Theology (Brill, 2006).

Contributors include: Sean A. Adams, Panayotis Coutsoumpos, Craig A. Evans, Ron C. Fay, Jim Harrison, Ronald F. Hock, Craig S. Keener, Tobias Nicklas, Andrew W. Pitts, and Michael J. Thate.