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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827517203321

Autore

Downing F. Gerald <1935->

Titolo

Making sense in (and of) the first Christian century / / F. Gerald Downing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

1-283-19726-X

9786613197269

0-567-37621-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; ; 197

Disciplina

270.1

Soggetti

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

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 (pages [236]-249) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; 'HONOUR' AMONG EXEGETES; Chapter 2; PERSONS IN RELATION; Chapter 3; FORGIVINGNESS? - OF FORGIVENESS? - OR THE REMISSION OF OFFENCES ?; Chapter 4; THE AMBIGUITY OF 'THE PHARISEE AND THE TOLL COLLECTOR' (LUKE 18.9-14) IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY; Chapter 5; THE WOMAN FROM SYROPHOENICIA, AND HER DOGGEDNESS MARK 7.24-31 (MATTHEW 15.21-28); Chapter 6; DEEPER REFLECTIONS ON THE JEWISH CYNIC JESUS; Chapter 7; CYNICS AND CHRISTIANS, OEDIPUS AND THYESTES; Chapter 8; EXILE IN FORMATIVE JUDAISM; Chapter 9

COMMON STRANDS IN PAGAN, JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGIES IN THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURIESChapter 10; CHRISTOLOGICAL REALISM IN PAUL, HEBREWS AND JOHN; Chapter 11; MAGIC AND SCEPTICISM IN AND AROUND THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURY; Chapter 12; INTERPRETATION AND THE 'CULTURE GAP'; Chapter 13; REFLECTING IN THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURY: 1 CORINTHIANS 13.12; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

The first Christian century must be approached with careful attention to its cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. It should not simply be assumed that this past 'is a different place, they do things differently



there'. Downing treats the ways in which early Christians tried to 'make things make sense' within their cultures, noting both the similarities and differences between their ways and contemporary ones and stressing the variety of contexts and influences on first-century communication. Downing brings his renowned expertise to bear in illuminating the cultural features of early Christia