Early Christian ethics in interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jan Willem van Henten, Joseph Verheyden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463029403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-90225-7; 90-04-24215-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Collana: Studies in theology and religion (STAR), , 1566-208X ; ; v. 17
• Altri autori (Persone): HentenJ. W. van; VerheydenJozef
• Disciplina: 241.09/015
• Soggetti: Christian ethics - History - Early church, ca. 30-600; Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D; Ethics; Electronic books.; Greece Religion; Rome Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter / Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden -- Introduction / Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden -- Early Christianity in Its Hellenistic Context: A Critical Survey of 20th Century Research / Reinhard Feldmeier -- Early Christianity in Its Jewish Context: A Brief Look at 20th Century Research / Gerbern S. Oegema -- Finding a Basis for Interpreting New Testament Ethos from a Greco-Roman Philosophical Perspective / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Some Issues behind the Ethics in the Qumran Scrolls and Their Implications for New Testament Ethics / George J. Brooke -- The Relevance of Jewish Inscriptions for New Testament Ethics / Andrew Chester -- The Importance of Hellenistic Judaism for the Study of Paul’s Ethics / Thomas H. Tobin -- “Ethical” Traditions, Family Ethos, and Love in the Johannine Literature / Jörg Frey -- Good As a Moral Category in the Early Jesus Tradition / Hermut Löhr -- Ethics and Anthropology in the Letter of James: An Outline / Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr ; -- Essentials of Ethics in Matthew and the Didache: A Comparison at a Conceptual and Practical Level / Huub van de Sandt -- Bibliography / Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden -- Indexes / Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden.
• Sommario/riassunto: Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts focuses upon the nexus of early Christian Ethics and its contexts as a dynamic process. The ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman or early Christian traditions as well as with the social-historical context at large continuously transformed early Christian ethics. The volume proposes a dynamic model for studying culture and its various expressions in a society composed of several ethnic and religious groups. The contributions focus on specific transformations of ethics in key documents of early Christianity, or take a more comparative perspective pointing to similar developments and overlaps as well as particularities within early Christian writings, Hellenistic-Jewish writings, Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish inscriptions.