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