TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meeks,Wayne A.
AU  - White,L.Michael
AU  - Yarbrough,O.Larry
TI  - The social world of the first Christians: essays in honor of Wayne A. Meeks 
SN  - 9780800625856
AV  - BS2545 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Social scientific criticism
KW  - Sociology, Biblical
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - 1 and indexes; Euodia and Syntyche and Paul's letter to the Philippians; Nils A. Dahl --; Christ, the elements of the cosmos, and the law in Galatians; J. Louis Martyn --; The weak and the strong : Paul's careful and crafty rhetorical strategy in Romans 14:1-15:13; J. Paul Sampley --; [Skeyos] : a modest proposal for illuminating Paul's use of metaphor in 1 Thessalonians 4:4; Jouette M. Bassler --; A support for his old age : Paul's plea on behalf of Onesimus; Ronald F. Hock --; Paul's thorn and cultural models of affliction; Susan R. Garrett --; Light on Paul from the Testaments of the twelve patriarchs? / M. de Jonge --; God's new family in Thessalonica; Abraham J. Malherbe --; Parents and children in the letters of Paul; O. Larry Yarbrough --; Matthew and the spirit; Leander E. Keck --; The problem of perjury in Greek context : prolegomena to an exegesis of Matthew 5:33; 1 Timothy 1:10;  and Didache 2.3; John T. Fitzgerald --; The social world of James : literary analysis and historical reconstruction; Luke Timothy Johnson --; The footwashing in John 13:6-11 : transformation ritual or ceremony? / Jerome H. Neyrey --; Rich and poor, proud and humble in Luke-Acts; David L. Balch --; Visualizing the "real" world of Acts 16: toward construction of a social index; L. Michael White --; The Red Hall in Pergamon; Helmut Koester --; On the nature of magic : report on a dialogue between a historian and a sociologist; Alan F. Segal --; Greeks who sacrifice and those who do not : toward an anthropology of Greek religion; Stanley K. Stowers --; Prolegomena to the study of ancient gnosticism; Bentley Layton --; Contesting Abraham : the ascetic reader and the politics of intertextuality; Elizabeth A. Clark --; Agustine's The spirit and the letter as a reading of Paul's Romans; Paul W. Meyer --; Sinned we all in Adam's fall? / Rowan A. Greer; 2
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