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.
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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.