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Greco-Roman culture and the New Testament : studies commemorating the centennial of the Pontifical Biblical Institute / edited by David E. Aune, Frederick E. Brenk.

Contributor(s): Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 143.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9004226540
  • 9789004226548
Other title:
  • Graeco-Roman culture and the New Testament
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Greco-Roman Culture and the New Testament : Studies Commemorating the Centennial of the Pontifical Biblical Institute.DDC classification:
  • 225.6/7 23
LOC classification:
  • BS511.3 .G74 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Frederick E. Brenk -- The role of rhetorical elaboration in the formation of Mark's Passion narrative (Mark 14:43-16:8) : an enquiry / Justin Taylor -- Logos and pneuma in the Fourth Gospel / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- The enigma of imperial cultic activities and Paul in Corinth / Bruce W. Winter -- Pauline Paraenesis in Romans 12 and Greek gnomic wisdom / Dieter Zeller -- Most beautiful and divine : Graeco-Romans (especially Plutarch) and Paul, on love and marriage / Frederick E. Brenk -- Clement of Alexandria on woman and marriage in the light of the New Testament household codes / Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils -- Traveling up and away : journeys to the upper and outer regions of the world / Adela Yarbro Collins -- The polyvalent imagery of Rev 3:20 in the light of Greco-Egyptian divination texts / David E. Aune -- The Sibyl and the apocalypses : generic relationships in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity / John J. Collins.
Summary: Focusing on a strength of the faculty of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, this volume is a collection of nine essays by an international group of scholars who have used texts from the Greco-Roman world to illuminate various aspects of the New Testament.
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Introduction / Frederick E. Brenk -- The role of rhetorical elaboration in the formation of Mark's Passion narrative (Mark 14:43-16:8) : an enquiry / Justin Taylor -- Logos and pneuma in the Fourth Gospel / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- The enigma of imperial cultic activities and Paul in Corinth / Bruce W. Winter -- Pauline Paraenesis in Romans 12 and Greek gnomic wisdom / Dieter Zeller -- Most beautiful and divine : Graeco-Romans (especially Plutarch) and Paul, on love and marriage / Frederick E. Brenk -- Clement of Alexandria on woman and marriage in the light of the New Testament household codes / Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils -- Traveling up and away : journeys to the upper and outer regions of the world / Adela Yarbro Collins -- The polyvalent imagery of Rev 3:20 in the light of Greco-Egyptian divination texts / David E. Aune -- The Sibyl and the apocalypses : generic relationships in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity / John J. Collins.

Focusing on a strength of the faculty of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, this volume is a collection of nine essays by an international group of scholars who have used texts from the Greco-Roman world to illuminate various aspects of the New Testament.

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