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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790078503321

Autore

Breytenbach Cilliers <1954->

Titolo

Grace, reconciliation, concord [[electronic resource] ] : the death of Christ in Graeco-Roman metaphors / / by Cilliers Breytenbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-283-11965-X

9786613119650

90-04-18804-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 pages)

Collana

Supplements to Novum Testamentum, , 0167-9732 ; ; v. 135

Disciplina

232.96/3

Soggetti

Metaphor - Religious aspects - Christianity

Civilization, Greco-Roman

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Collection of previously published essays, with revisions.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Pre-Pauline and Pauline interpretation of Christ's death -- God's grace, reconciliation, triumph and salvation in Paul's Letters -- Post-Pauline salvation -- Paulus Africanus.

Sommario/riassunto

How did the first Christians interpret the death of Christ? The answer lies within the earliest Christian documents, primarily within the Pauline letters. Before the users of a modern language could hope to come near an adequate description of what was expressed in these Greek texts of the first Christians, they have to deconstruct layers of later dogmatic interpretation. They need to keep to descriptive terminology reflecting the Greek of the sources and to trace the origin of the metaphoric language early Christians like Paul used. This volume sets out to construct some of the Jewish and Greco-Roman patterns of thought which were initially utilised to express the meaning of the death of Christ.