The social world of the first Christians : essays in honor of Wayne A. Meeks /

The social world of the first Christians : essays in honor of Wayne A. Meeks / [print] edited by L. Michael White and O. Larry Yarbrough. - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, (c)1995. - xxix, 418 pages ; 24 cm.



Euodia and Syntyche and Paul's letter to the Philippians Christ, the elements of the cosmos, and the law in Galatians The weak and the strong : Paul's careful and crafty rhetorical strategy in Romans 14:1-15:13 [Skeyos] : a modest proposal for illuminating Paul's use of metaphor in 1 Thessalonians 4:4 A support for his old age : Paul's plea on behalf of Onesimus Paul's thorn and cultural models of affliction Light on Paul from the Testaments of the twelve patriarchs? / M. de Jonge -- God's new family in Thessalonica Parents and children in the letters of Paul Matthew and the spirit The problem of perjury in Greek context : prolegomena to an exegesis of Matthew 5:33; 1 Timothy 1:10; and Didache 2.3 The social world of James : literary analysis and historical reconstruction The footwashing in John 13:6-11 : transformation ritual or ceremony? / Jerome H. Neyrey -- Rich and poor, proud and humble in Luke-Acts Visualizing the "real" world of Acts 16: toward construction of a social index The Red Hall in Pergamon On the nature of magic : report on a dialogue between a historian and a sociologist Greeks who sacrifice and those who do not : toward an anthropology of Greek religion Prolegomena to the study of ancient gnosticism Contesting Abraham : the ascetic reader and the politics of intertextuality Agustine's The spirit and the letter as a reading of Paul's Romans Sinned we all in Adam's fall? / Rowan A. Greer. Nils A. Dahl -- J. Louis Martyn -- J. Paul Sampley -- Jouette M. Bassler -- Ronald F. Hock -- Susan R. Garrett -- Abraham J. Malherbe -- O. Larry Yarbrough -- Leander E. Keck -- John T. Fitzgerald -- Luke Timothy Johnson -- David L. Balch -- L. Michael White -- Helmut Koester -- Alan F. Segal -- Stanley K. Stowers -- Bentley Layton -- Elizabeth A. Clark -- Paul W. Meyer --



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Bible.--New Testament--Social scientific criticism.


Sociology, Biblical--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

BS2545 BS2545.Y26.S635 1995