TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pitts,Andrew W.
AU  - Porter,Stanley E.
TI  - Christian origins and Greco-Roman culture: social and literary contexts for the New Testament 
T2  - Early Christianity in its hellenistic context
SN  - 9004234160 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - BR129 .C425 2013
U1  - 270.1 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Origin
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Greece
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Rome
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Greco-Roman culture in the history of the New Testament interpretation: an introductory essay / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- Greco-Roman social contexts for Christian origins -- Manuscripts, scribes, and book production within early Christianity / Michael J. Kruger -- What do we know and how do we know it? Reconstructing early Christianity from its manuscripts / Stanley E. Porter -- Recent efforts to reconstruct early Christianity on the basis of its papyrological evidence / Stanley E. Porter -- Jesus and parallel Jewish and Greco-Roman figures / Craig S. Keener -- The exorcisms and healings of Jesus within classical culture / Tony Costa -- Cash and release: Atonement and release from oppression in the Imperial context of Luke's Gospel / Matthew Forrest Lowe -- Luke and Juvenal at the crossroads: Space, movement, and morality in the Roman Empire / Osman Umurhan and Todd Penner -- Jesus, the beloved disciple, and Greco-Roman friendship conventions / Ronald F. Hock -- The imitation of the "Great Man" in antiquity: Paul's inversion of a cultural icon / James R. Harrison -- Ephesians: Paul's political theology in Greco-Roman political context / Fredrick J. Long -- Exiles, islands, and the identity and perspective of John in Revelation / Brian Mark Rapske -- Greco-Roman literary contexts for Christian origins -- Source citation in Greek historiography and in Luke(-Acts) / Andrew W. Pitts -- On sources and speeches: Methodological discussions in ancient prose works and Luke-Acts / Sean A. Adams -- Luke as a Hellenistic Historian / Paul L. Maier -- The genre of the Fourth Gospel and Greco-Roman literary conventions / Andreas J. Köstenberger -- Classical Greek poetry and the Acts of the Apostles: imitations of Euripides' Bacchae / Dennis R. MacDonald -- Pauline prescripts and Greco-Roman Epistolary conventions / E. Randolph Richards -- Letter openings in Paul and Plato / James Starr -- Progymnasmatic love / R. Dean Anderson -- "This is a great metaphor!" Reciprocity in the Ephesians household code / Cynthia Long Westfall -- Turning Kepavn on its head: the rhetoric of reversal in Ephesians 5:21-23 / Michelle Lee-Barnewell -- Frank speech at work in Hebrews / Benjamin Fiore -- How Greek was the author of "Hebrews"? A study of the author's location in regard to Greek / David A. deSilva -- The Didache as a Christian Enchiridion / William Varner -- The classroom in the text: Exegetical practices in Justin and Galen / H. Gregory Snyder; Available to subscribing member institutions only
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004236219
ER  -