Early Christian Paraenesis in Context / / ed. by James Starr, Troels Engberg-Pedersen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Aasgaard, Reidar,; Betz, Hans Dieter,; Blomkvist, Vemund,; Engberg-Pedersen, Troels,; Glad, Clarence E.,; Hellholm, David,; Holmstrand, Jonas,; Malherbe, Abraham J.,; Petersen, Anders Klostergaard,; Popkes, Wiard,; Rubenson, Samuel,; Sandnes, Karl Olav,; Starr, James M.,; Starr, James,; Swancutt, Diana M.,; Thomas, Johannes,; Thurén, Lauri,; Westerholm, Stephen,; Übelacker, Walter,
• HerausgeberIn: Engberg-Pedersen, Troels,; Starr, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft , 125
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (616 p.)

An up-to-date discussion of early Christian paraenesis in its Graeco-Roman and Hellenistic Jewish contexts in the light of one hundred years of scholarship, issuing from a research project by Nordic and international scholars. The concept of paraenesis is basic to New Testament scholarship but hardly anywhere else. How is that to be explained? The concept is also, notoriously, without any agreed-upon definition and it is even contested. Can it at all be salvaged? This volume reassesses the scholarly discussion of paraenesis - both the concept and the phenomenon - since Paul Wendland and Martin Dibelius and argues for a number of ways in which it may continue to be fruitful.

Was ist frühchristliche Paränese? Im Licht einer hundertjährigen Forschungsgeschichte bieten die 17 Beiträge eine aktuelle Diskussion frühchristlicher Paränese in ihrem griechisch-römischen und hellenistisch-jüdischen Kontext. Der Band, an dem zahlreiche internationale Gelehrte mitgewirkt haben, geht auf ein skandinavisches Forschungsprojekt zurück.

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. What is Paraenesis? -- Paraenesis in the New Testament. An Exercise in Conceptuality -- The Concept of Paraenesis -- Was Paraenesis for Beginners? -- Paraenesis in Light of Protrepsis. Troubling the Typical Dichotomy -- Part II. Paraenesis in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World -- The Paraenesis of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Between Torah and Jewish Wisdom -- Four Maccabees: A Paraenetic Address? -- Paraenesis and the Concept of God According to Oratio XII (Olympikos) of Dio of Prusa -- Part III. Paraenesis in the New Testament -- “Brotherly Advice”. Christian Siblingship and New Testament Paraenesis -- Paraenesis in Pauline Scholarship and in Paul – An Intricate Relationship -- Paraenesis in the Epistle to Titus -- Paraenesis or Paraclesis – Hebrews as a Test Case -- Motivation as the Core of Paraenesis – Remarks on Peter and Paul as Persuaders -- Revised Conventions in Early Christian Paraenesis – “Working Good” in 1 Peter as an Example -- Is There Paraenesis in 1 John? -- Part IV. Early Christian Paraenesis after the New Testament -- The Rhetoric of Moral Exhortation in Clement’s Pedagogue -- Parainesis as an Ancient Genre-Designation. The Case of the ‘Euthalian Apparatus’ and the ‘Affiliated Argumenta’ -- Wisdom, Paraenesis and the Roots of Monasticism -- Bibliography -- Select Index of Ancient Literature -- Index of Personal Names -- Index of Subjects