Constructing early Christian families :
Constructing early Christian families : family as social reality and metaphor /
edited by Halvor Moxnes.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- xvi, 267 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Halvor Moxnes --
What is family? : problems in constructing early Christian families / Halvor Moxnes --
The family in first-century Galilee / Santiago Guijarro --
The family as the bearer of religion in Judaism and early Christianity / John M.G. Barclay --
The relativisation of family ties in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman traditions / Stephen C. Barton --
The Roman family : ideal and metaphor / Eva Marie Lassen --
Family imagery and Christian identity in Gal 5:13 to 6:10 / Philip F. Esler --
Equality within patriarchal structures : some New Testament perspectives on the Christian fellowship as a brother- or sisterhood and a family / Karl Olav Sandnes --
Brotherhood in Plutarch and Paul : its role and character / Reidar Aasgaard --
Brotherhood in Christ : a gender hermeneutical reading of 1 Thessalonians / Lone Fatum --
Paul without passion : on Paul's rejection of desire in sex and marriage / Dale B. Martin --
Asceticism and anti-familial language in the Gospel of Thomas / Risto Uro --
Family structures in Gnostic religion / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus.
0415146399 (pbk.)
96044657
Bible.--New Testament.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Families--Biblical teaching.
Sociology, Biblical.
Families--Rome.
Jewish families--Religious life.
Families--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Religion and sociology--Rome.
Rome--Religion.
Rome--Social conditions.
BS2545.F33 / C66 1997
261.8/3585/09015
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Halvor Moxnes --
What is family? : problems in constructing early Christian families / Halvor Moxnes --
The family in first-century Galilee / Santiago Guijarro --
The family as the bearer of religion in Judaism and early Christianity / John M.G. Barclay --
The relativisation of family ties in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman traditions / Stephen C. Barton --
The Roman family : ideal and metaphor / Eva Marie Lassen --
Family imagery and Christian identity in Gal 5:13 to 6:10 / Philip F. Esler --
Equality within patriarchal structures : some New Testament perspectives on the Christian fellowship as a brother- or sisterhood and a family / Karl Olav Sandnes --
Brotherhood in Plutarch and Paul : its role and character / Reidar Aasgaard --
Brotherhood in Christ : a gender hermeneutical reading of 1 Thessalonians / Lone Fatum --
Paul without passion : on Paul's rejection of desire in sex and marriage / Dale B. Martin --
Asceticism and anti-familial language in the Gospel of Thomas / Risto Uro --
Family structures in Gnostic religion / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus.
0415146399 (pbk.)
96044657
Bible.--New Testament.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Families--Biblical teaching.
Sociology, Biblical.
Families--Rome.
Jewish families--Religious life.
Families--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Religion and sociology--Rome.
Rome--Religion.
Rome--Social conditions.
BS2545.F33 / C66 1997
261.8/3585/09015
